Janet MacLeod Trotter

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1989
  • Latest Book:
    October 2021
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Full Series List in Order

The Durham Trilogy

1 - The Hungry Hills (Oct-1992)
2 - The Darkening Skies (May-1994)
3 - Never Stand Alone (Dec-1997)

The Great War Sagas

1 - A Crimson Dawn (Jun-2006)
2 - No Greater Love (Mar-2013)

The Highland Romance Collection

1 - The Jacobite Lass (Oct-2014)
2 - Highlander in Muscovy (Nov-2014)
3 - The Beltane Fires (Mar-2011)

India Tea

1 - The Tea Planter's Daughter (May-2012)
2 - The Planter's Bride (Mar-2014)
3 - Girl from the Tea Garden (Dec-2016)
4 - The Secret of the Tea Garden (Aug-2018)

The Jarrow Trilogy

1 - The Jarrow Lass (Jul-2002)
2 - A Child of Jarrow (Sep-2011)
3 - Return to Jarrow (Sep-2011)

The Raj Hotel

1 - The Emerald Affair (Jan-2020)
2 - A Sapphire Child (Dec-2020)
3 - The Diamond Daughter (Oct-2021)

The Tyneside Sagas

1 - The Suffragette (Jun-1996)
2 - A Crimson Dawn (Jun-2006)
3 - For Love & Glory (Jun-2000)
4 - A Handful of Stars (Jul-2012)
5 - Chasing the Dream (Jun-1999)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Love Games (Heartlines)

    A series where the heroine faces first love and the problems of growing up, family pressures and society's view of teenagers. This title focuses on Lulu. Her parents think they're still living in the 60s, but her best friend Sid and the football team...

  • The Hungry Hills

    The Durham Trilogy - 1

    With the Great War still raw in the memory and life in the 1920s mining village of Whitton Grange hard and dangerous, Louie Kirkup dreams of a better future. But with a sick mother and a large family of pitman brothers and father, the daily burdens f...

  • The Darkening Skies

    The Durham Trilogy - 2

    A heartbreakingly moving story of loyalty and passion: second in the Durham Trilogy. When pretty Sara Pallister's father dies leaving his farm bankrupt, she is begrudgingly taken in by her narrow-minded uncle and aunt in the mining village of Whitton...

  • The Suffragette

    The Tyneside Sagas - 1

    Raised in the slums of Edwardian Tyneside, spirited and out-spoken Maggie Beaton joins the ranks of the suffragettes, determined to prove herself to her more wealthy comrades, in particular Alice Pearson, haughty daughter of the powerful local shipbu...

  • Never Stand Alone

    The Durham Trilogy - 3

    When Carol Shannon, the unruly daughter of Brassbank's pit manager, falls for young miner, Mick Todd, their defiant relationship causes a storm in the close-knit mining village. For the bitterness between their families runs as deep as the coal seams...

  • Chasing the Dream

    The Tyneside Sagas - 5

    1920: Millie escapes the bleak pit village of Craston and eviction when her mother poses as a widow to start a new life running the station hotel in Ashborough. Haunted by childhood poverty Millie sees security and happiness in the form of handsome b...

  • For Love & Glory

    The Tyneside Sagas - 3

    Warm-hearted, fun-loving Jo Elliot grows up on Tyneside in the 1960's with her widowed father and older brother Colin and his friends. She has a special bond with the lively but rebellious Mark Duggan who is rejected by his violent father and ignored...

  • The Jarrow Lass

    The Jarrow Trilogy - 1

    Brought up on her parents' smallholding in Jarrow in the harsh years of the 1870s, selling vegetables to poverty-struck Irish labourers such as the unruly McMullens, Rose dreams of the world beyond the grime of the town, a world she glimpsed at a fai...

  • A Crimson Dawn

    The Great War Sagas - 1
    The Tyneside Sagas - 2

    Emmie Kelso is only nine years old when she is rescued from a dingy Gateshead tenement and sent to Crawdene for her health; taken in to the vibrant, loving household of the MacRaes, a radical mining family. Blossoming into a pretty, spirited young wo...



  • The Tea Planter's Lass

  • The Vanishing of Ruth

    An enthralling story of dark secrets and lost love on the hippy trail by a best-selling British author. 1976: friends, Marcus and Ruth, go missing in Afghanistan during an overland bus trip to Kathmandu. A generation later, Ruth's niece Amber, haunte...

  • The Beltane Fires

    The Highland Romance Collection - 3

    Chief's daughter, the fiery Mairi Lismore is in love with Douglas Roskill, heir to Duntorin Castle, but they are wrenched apart by the zealous witch-hunts of Zechariah Black and the jealousy of her step-sister. Sent to the Royal Court of James VI in ...

  • A Child of Jarrow

    The Jarrow Trilogy - 2

    To escape her drunken step-father, Kate Fawcett is sent away from Tyneside and finds work at Ravensworth Castle. She soon attracts the attention of charming, headstrong Alexander Pringle Davis, a distant cousin of the Earl, who risks incurring the wr...

  • Return to Jarrow

    The Jarrow Trilogy - 3

    Catherine (Kitty) McMullen, is seventeen, restless and rebellious. Resentful of her mother Kate's new husband, she yearns for stories of the father she never knew and when her gossipy aunt divulges that he was a wealthy gentleman, Catherine's discont...

  • The Tea Planter's Daughter

    India Tea - 1

    1905 INDIA: Clarissa Belhaven and her younger sister Olive find their carefree life on their father's tea plantation threatened by his drinking and debts. Wesley Robson, a brash young rival businessman, offers to help save the plantation in exchange ...

  • A Handful of Stars

    The Tyneside Sagas - 4

    It's 1931 and the Depression has brought Tyneside to its knees. Young, pretty Clara Magee is devastated when her father commits suicide leaving secrets behind him and the family is forced to sell their fancy-goods shop to a German couple. Despite her...

  • Ice Cream Summer

    A collection of emotionally engaging short stories; romantic, sad, funny, ghostly, light-hearted, mysterious and touching. Tales of first love (Ice Cream Summer), ghostly warning (The Haven), baby love (Ray of Sunshine), past secrets that threaten to...

  • The Haunting of Kulah

    1946: far out in the Atlantic a boatload of men returning from war are shipwrecked within sight of their homes on the remote Scottish island of Kulah - and the wailing of the women could be heard across the sea on neighbouring Battersay. But the wome...

  • No Greater Love

    The Great War Sagas - 2

    This is a heart-rending novel about one woman's fight for justice and love. Raised in the slums of Edwardian Tyneside, spirited and out-spoken Maggie Beaton joins the ranks of the suffragettes, determined to prove herself to her more wealthy comrades...



  • The Planter's Bride

    India Tea - 2

    1922: cousins and best friends, Sophie and Tilly, are looking for love and adventure. Sophie, orphaned at six, when her tea planter parents died suddenly of fever in India, has been brought up by a radical aunt in Edinburgh. Tilly meanwhile has lived...

  • The Jacobite Lass

    The Highland Romance Collection - 1

    Scotland, 1722: on a remote and windswept Scottish island an enigmatic poetess foretells tragedy for the proud Macdonalds of Clanranald and the birth of an extraordinary child. That child is the passionate and free-spirited Flora, daughter of Marion....

  • Highlander in Muscovy

    The Highland Romance Collection - 2

    1700s: Beautiful and impulsive Katherine Putulo, daughter to a Scots doctor, has been raised in the foreign quarter of Muscovy (Moscow) among European émigrés. On her sister's wedding day, Katherine recklessly disguises herself as a Russian maid se...

  • Girl from the Tea Garden

    India Tea - 3

    In the dying days of the Raj, Anglo-Indian schoolgirl Adela Robson dreams of a glamorous career on the stage. When she sneaks away from school in the back of handsome Sam Jackman’s car, she knows a new life awaits -- but it is not the one she imagi...

  • The Secret of the Tea Garden

    India Tea - 4

    She’s gone in search of happy memories. But was her idyllic childhood in India an illusion? After the Second World War, Libby Robson leaves chilly England for India, and the childhood home where she left her heart -- and her beloved father, Jame...

  • In the Far Pashmina Mountains

    From shipwreck and heartbreak to treachery and war: can their love survive? Abandoned as a baby and raised in a remote lighthouse off the wild Northumberland coast, Alice Fairchild has always dreamed of adventure. When a fierce storm wrecks a ship...

  • The Emerald Affair

    The Raj Hotel - 1

    In this evocative tale of life in India between the wars, friendships will be tested and loyalties torn. But can love win the day? In Scotland in the aftermath of the First World War, nurse Esmie McBride meets handsome Captain Tom Lomax at her bes...

  • A Sapphire Child

    The Raj Hotel - 2

    In the dying days of the Raj, can paths divided by time and circumstance ever find each other again?In 1930s Northern India, childhood friends Stella and Andrew have grown up together in the orbit of the majestic Raj Hotel. Spirited Stella has always...

  • The Diamond Daughter

    The Raj Hotel - 3

    In this emotional story set in 1946 post-war India, can a woman's quest for love survive shocking secrets and betrayal?Filled with excitement and a little trepidation, Jeanie Munro is returning to India and her husband Mungo, having been forced apart...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Janet MacLeod Trotter has published 28 books.

Janet MacLeod Trotter does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Diamond Daughter, was published in October 2021.

The first book by Janet MacLeod Trotter, Love Games (Heartlines), was published in August 1989.

Yes. Janet MacLeod Trotter has 7 series.
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