Joanna Trollope

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1978
  • Latest Book:
    May 2020
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About the Author

Joanna Trollope was born on 9 December 1943 in her grandfather's rectory in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, daughter of Rosemary Hodson and Arthur George Cecil Trollope. She is the eldest of three siblings. She is a fifth-generation niece of the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope. She was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. On 14 May 1966, she married the banker David Roger William Potter, they had two daughters, Antonia and Louise, and on 1983 they divorced. In 1985, she remarried to the television dramatist Ian Curteis, and became the stepmother of two stepsons; they divorced in 2001. Today, she is a grandmother and lives on her own in London.

From 1965 to 1967, she worked at the Foreign Office. From 1967 to 1979, she was employed in a number of teaching posts before she became a writer full-time in 1980. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Eliza Stanhope

    The engagement in 1814 of Julia to Richard Beaumont brings Julia's cousin Eliza Stanhope into contact with Richard's brother Francis, newly returned from the Peninsular War, and his friend Pelham Howell. In the first of these aquaintances Eliza meets...

  • Parson Harding's Daughter

    The Reverend Henry Harding, parson to the excellent living of Stoke Abbas, was a handsome and prepossessing man. Unfortunately fate had seen fit to bless him with a family of extremely plain and unprepossessing children. Caroline was the least offens...

  • Leaves From the Valley

    When Captian Edgar Drummond learns he is to serve his first commission in the Crimea, he decides to take his two sisters with him. It will, after all, be only the smallest of skirmishes and, since childhood he, Blanche and Sarah have been inseparable...

  • Mistaken Virtues

    The Reverend Henry Harding was a handsome and prepossessing man. Unfortunately fate had seen fit to bless him with a family of extremely plain and unprepossessing children. Caroline was the least plain, according to Lady Lennox, but the entire Lennox...

  • The Steps of the Sun

    Set in 1899 in South Africa, as the rumblings of dissent and racial resentment began to erupt into a savage war between Boer and Briton, so three young men found their lives drawn together. Matthew Paget, son of an archdeacon, was turbulent, rebellio...

  • The Taverner's Place

    A sweeping and epic novel about a great house, that traces the fortunes of its family from the 1870s through to World War II. The Taverners had lived at Buscombe, the mellow stone manor house in Wiltshire, for generations. They had farmed the land...

  • The Choir

    In the rustic town of Aldminster, a crisis looms. Funds are short and the cathedral is in need of major repair. Some hope to finance the work by abolishing the costly boy's choir-while others are aghast at the idea. Drawn into the fray is Sally Ashwo...

  • A Village Affair

  • A Passionate Man

    The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed her, swept her off to his father in Scotland, and finally married her. Now bedded firmly into country life-three childre...



  • The Rector's Wife

    For 20 years Anna Bouverie, a vicar's wife, had served God in a diversity of ways. She has been everything a priest's wife should be. She irons his surplices (badly), delivers the parish newsletter, and scrimps to get by on a pittance, all the while ...

  • The Men and The Girls

    Lifelong friends, now in their 60s, James and Hugh consider themselves to be very lucky to be living with attractive women 25 years their junior. All seems well until the appearance of Miss Beatrice Bachelor, a razor sharp Oxford spinster, who fuels ...

  • A Spanish Lover

    Lizzie and Frances, identical twins nearing forty, have hardly marked a parallel progress together through life. Lizzie is confident and effusive, married, the mother of a large, vibrant brood, a successful gallery owner, and a consummate homemaker. ...

  • The Best of Friends

    Gina and Laurence had been the best of friends ever since they were teens - but never in love. Gina married Fergus Bedford, an antique dealer who bought the sophisticated and elegant High Place for them to live in. Laurence married Hilary, a down-to-...

  • Next of Kin

    More than twenty years ago, a young American named Carolyn, originally from California, came to the Meredith family farm, marrying Robin Meredith and settling -- never quite comfortably -- into rural English life. Yet after her death, her grieving hu...

  • Faith

  • Other People's Children

    For eight-year-old Rufus, life has become complicated. His parents, Josie and Tom, have divorced and are setting off on separate paths. But now, other people have had to become involved, like his mother's new husband Matthew and his father's new frie...

  • Marrying the Mistress

  • Girl From the South

    Gillon Stokes - red-haired, intelligent, vulnerable - comes to London to escape from the demands of her wealthy, conventional, socially superior family in Charleston, South Carolina. An art historian, she has a chance meeting with Tilly, whose long-t...

  • Brother and Sister

    We all need to know where we come from, where we belong. But for David and Nathalie, this need is more urgent, because they are adopted. Brought up by the same parents, but born to two different mothers, Nathalie and David have grown up as brother an...



  • The Book Boy

    Alice is 38 has a house, a husband, two teenage children and a part-time job. She thinks she ought to be happy but she isn't - she can't read. She gets help from a strange companion, the book boy....

  • Second Honeymoon

    Ben Boyd is leaving home. At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family and the last to leave. His father Russell, a theatrical agent, is hoping to get his wife back after decades of family life. But, his mother Edie, an actress, is distraught. Now ...

  • Friday Nights

    From the master of literary domestic drama, a page-turning novel that dissects the complexities of female friendship and the choices that define women's lives. It is Eleanor who starts the Friday night get-togethers. From her window she sees two you...

  • Rembrandt at Twenty-Two

    Indulge your love for reading with this fabulous collection of original stories. With over 40 stories to choose from, this stunning collection has something for everyone. Celebrating women's fiction in all its guises, take a look at the latest storie...

  • The Other Family

    Richie Rossiter, a crooner and piano man still popular with his loyal fans, is anyone's idea of a lucky man. In his forties, he abandoned his first wife and son in Newcastle for a young woman who believed she could bring him stardom in the south. Not...

  • Daughters-in-Law

    As Anthony and Rachel Brinkley welcome their third daughter-in-law to the family, they don't quite realize the profound shift that is about to take place. For different reasons, the Brinkleys' two previous daughters-in-law hadn't been able to resist ...

  • The Soldier's Wife

    WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LOVE AND DUTY COLLIDE? Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. The outside world sees those reunions as a taste of heav...

  • Sense and Sensibility

    FROM ONE THE MOST INSIGHTFUL CHRONICLERS OF FAMILY LIFE IN FICTION TODAY COMES A CONTEMPORARY RETELLING OF JANE AUSTEN'S CLASSIC NOVEL OF LOVE, MONEY. AND TWO VERY DIFFERENT SISTERS. John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would take care ...

  • Balancing Act

    Susie Moran is a success. She has founded and run her own highly profitable company , and now her three daughters are all involved in the business. Rooted in the traditions of the Stoke-on-Trent potteries, and producing charming, useable objects of d...

  • City of Friends

    An emotional journey portraying the multiple frustrations, pressures and hidden agonies of four women. City of Friends is the number one bestselling novel from the highly acclaimed author, Joanna Trollope.The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like...



  • The BBC National Short Story Award 2017

    There is in the short story, at its most characteristic, something we do not often find in the novel, Frank O’Connor wrote, "an intense awareness of human loneliness." The stories shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award with BookTrust 2...

  • An Unsuitable Match

    An Unsuitable Match, by bestselling author Joanna Trollope, is an uplifting story of love in the autumn years, and the complexities of family bonds.'Nobody writes about family tensions better than Joanna Trollope' â€" Good HousekeepingAs Rose Woodrow...

  • Mum & Dad

    A Richard & Judy Book Club PickSet in the vineyards of Spain, Mum & Dad is a heartwarming family drama about later life and healing old wounds. From Joanna Trollope, the number one bestselling author of An Unsuitable Match, filled with her tr...

Award-Winning Books by Joanna Trollope

Parson Harding's Daughter
1980 RoNA -- Romantic Novel of the Year


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joanna Trollope has published 32 books.

Joanna Trollope does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Mum & Dad, was published in May 2020.

The first book by Joanna Trollope, Eliza Stanhope, was published in July 1978.

No. Joanna Trollope does not write books in series.
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