Joan Brady

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1993
  • Latest Book:
    April 2017
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About the Author

Joan Brady was born on 4 December 1939 in San Francisco, California, USA, daugther to Mildred Edie Brady and Robert A. Brady. She has one sister, Judy. She was a dancer with the San Francisco Ballet and the New York City Ballet, a story she tells in her highly-acclaimed autobiography The Unmaking of a Dancer. Then she went on to study philosophy at Columbia University in New York. In 1963, she married author Dexter Masters, her mother's secret lover. Together they had a son, Alexander Masters, who authored Stuart, A Life Backwards.

She currently lives in Oxford, England. She was the first woman to win the Whitbread Book of the Year Award (now Costa) with Theory of War, she is also the author of short stories, articles, reviews, and suspense novels.

Full Series List in Order

Related Books

1 - Bleedout (Apr-2005)
2 - Venom (Aug-2010)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Theory Of War

    'A modern work of genius' Spectator Winner of the Costa/Whitbread Book of the Year Award 1993 Forced into slavery as a child, Jonathan Carrick escapes to a new life but within him lies the need for revenge against George Stokes, the son of his former...

  • Band-Aides, Bullets and Booze

  • God on a Harley

    The beloved modern classic about a woman who finds love -- and herself -- from an unexpected source.At thirty-seven, Christine Moore has an overwhelming case of burnout with a frustrating career, a few dead-end romances, and a less-than-perfect figur...

  • Heaven in High Gear

    Her cool sexy demeanor betrays nothing, but twenty-nine-year-old Heather Hurley suffers from major anxiety attacks -- her life in L.A. isn't going exactly as planned. Now, in a bar near her hometown on the Jersey shore, her future is about to change ...

  • Con Man

  • Joyride

    If you've ever wondered what happened to Christine Moore from "God on a Harley," you won't want to miss this touching new sequel!

    In "Joyride," Christine has done some serious spiritual backsliding over the last ten years. Marriage and motherh...

  • Bleedout

    Related Books - 1

    "Watch your back most carefully when someone you trust steps behind you." Even after Hugh Freyl lost his sight he was invincible. But late one night, in the library of the elite law firm that bears his name, he was beaten to death. The obvious sus...

  • Ghosts of Mt. Soledad

    In the summer of 2007, amidst an ongoing debate over the constitutionality of a lone, twenty-nine-foot cross atop San Diego s historic Mt. Soledad, a local freelance writer inexplicably goes missing.
    Margaret Duran, middle-aged and never-married...

  • I Don't Need a Baby to Be Who I Am



  • Venom

    Related Books - 2

    A gripping tale of international corporate intrigue from the award-winning author of Bleedout . . . EASTERN EUROPE . . . Thirty years after Chernobyl, nuclear fallout is still claiming victims. ILLINOIS . . . Fresh out of prison, David Marion d...

  • Death Comes For Peter Pan

  • The Blue Death

    THE OBSERVER THRILLER OF THE MONTH For generations the Freyls have ruled Springfield, Illinois, capital of a state of great lakes and rivers. Now convicted killer David Marion threatens their invincibility, and he threatens it from within their own r...

  • The Unmaking of a Dancer

    The Unmaking of a Dancer sheds a blistering light on the raw, fiercely competitive and often vicious world of ballet: the truth behind the fiction of Black Swan. It's the story of Joan Brady's life in her own words. Ballet was the first thing Brady w...

  • An Angel on a Harley

  • The Cinderella Reflex

    No matter how strong and independent Tess Morgan appeared on the outside, she was always let down by her inner five-year-old â€" who persistently believed that one day her Prince would come. Real life is tough. For Tess, her job with struggling local...

  • Reinventing Susannah

    A big bereavement. An empty nest. And a runaway husband.

    Susannah Stevens hopes that whoever said bad things come in threes got it right, because she can't cope with much more going wrong in her life.

    She finds herself a job as a freel...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joan Brady has published 16 books.

Joan Brady does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Reinventing Susannah, was published in April 2017.

The first book by Joan Brady, Theory Of War, was published in April 1993.

Yes. Joan Brady has 1 series.
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