Jill Dawson

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1992
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Book List in Order: 12 titles

  • The Virago Book of Wicked Verse

    Feisty, bawdy, erotic, and irreverent, The Virago Book of Wicked Verse is a telling commentary on women's ability to transform poetry into a medium of subversiveness. There are jibes at hypocrisy and prejudice, sexiness and sauciness, and a riotous o...

  • Virago Book of Love Letters

  • Fred & Edie

    In a dazzling act of literary license, the novelist and poet Jill Dawson has transformed the sensational true story of Britain’s infamous condemned adulteress into a dramatic novel of passion, murder, and scandal, as seductive as it is shocking. On...

  • The Great Lover

    “A brilliant, complicated man is the centre of Jill Dawson’s The Great Lover, and while she draws extensively on historical records of Brooke and his contemporaries, it is her decisions as a novelist that make this account of his life fascinating...

  • Trick of the Light

    A young couple abandon the urban jungle of London's East End for a remote, mountainous corner of Washington State. Chosen by Mick, who is half-American, the place seems as alien as the moon to Rita. But she soon adjusts to raising their small daughte...

  • Watch Me Disappear

    A ten-year-old girl vanishes without trace from a Fenland village, her body never found. Thirty years on, she comes sharply back to life in the mind's eye of her childhood friend, Tina Humber, who has done her best to put the past behind her. But now...

  • Lucky Bunny

    Daring, clever, and alluring, Queenie Dove has spent a lifetime developing the skills of an accomplished thief. Born into a criminal family in London's East End during the Great Depression, and trained by a group of women shoplifters during the Blitz...

  • The Tell-Tale Heart

    Patrick, a 50-year-old professor of American Studies, drinker and womanizer, has been given six months to live. In a rural part of Cambridgeshire, a teenager dies in a motorcycle accident. When his heart is transplanted into Patrick's chest, the live...

  • The Crime Writer

    From acclaimed novelist Jill Dawson comes this imaginative psychological thriller -- a dark and compelling snapshot into the life of Patricia Highsmith that immerses readers into the intoxicating, nightmarish psyche of this brilliant, complex author....



  • The Language of Birds

    Drawing on the infamous Lord Lucan affair, this compelling novel explores the roots of a shocking murder from a fresh perspective and brings to vivid life an era when women''s voices all too often went unheard.

    In the summer of 1974, Mandy...

  • Fred and Edie

    In December 1922 Edith Thompson, a smart, bright, lower-middle class woman who worked in a milliner's shop, was tried for conspiring with her young lover Frederick Bywaters to murder her husband, Percy. The sensational trial, which took place in fron...

  • The Bewitching

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jill Dawson has published 12 books.

Jill Dawson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Bewitching, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Jill Dawson, The Virago Book of Wicked Verse, was published in November 1992.

No. Jill Dawson does not write books in series.
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