Josephine Cox

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  • Bibliography:
    52 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1987
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Emma Grady

1 - Outcast (Oct-1991)
2 - Alley Urchin (Aug-1991)
3 - Vagabonds (Jan-1997)

Queenie

1 - Her Father's Sins (1987)
2 - Let Loose the Tigers (Sep-1990)

Book List in Order: 52 titles

  • Her Father's Sins

    • / General Fiction
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    Queenie - 1

    Life will test Queenie at every step, but determination and love might just get her through. First in the heart-warming Queenie Novels, from one of England's bestselling authorsWhen Queenie’s mom dies giving birth to her, leaving her at the mercy o...

  • Let Loose the Tigers

    Queenie - 2

    Secrets are unearthed in the second instalment of The Queenie Novels from one of England's bestselling authorsQueenie Bedford fled her home in Blackburn, England, chased by the bitter knowledge that she and Rick Marsden, the man she loves, can never ...

  • Whistledown Woman

    What if everything you've been brought up to believe was a lie? Whistledown Woman is the moving story of a beautiful girl growing up unaware of her true inheritance, from bestselling author Josephine Cox. Perfect for fans of Kitty Neale and ...

  • Alley Urchin

    Emma Grady - 2

    From a “born storyteller,” a historical saga of a wrongly imprisoned woman’s reunion with her child and the man she loves (Times & Citizen).   It is 1870 and Emma Grady has spent seven years of servitude as a convict in Australia. Now,...

  • Outcast

    Emma Grady - 1

    A breathtaking historical romance of loss, love, and heartbreak in eighteenth century BritainWhen Emma Grady finds herself orphaned one fateful night in 1860, she is left at the mercy of her devious aunt and cruel uncle Caleb Crowther. A feared Lanca...

  • Take This Woman

    In the tiny front parlour fourteen-year-old Laura Blake watches her beloved father die, but not before he tells her she will make something of her life. Yet her path to success proves to be a rocky one. Forced to trundle a cart around the back street...

  • Angels Cry Sometimes

    The marriage of Marcia and Curt Ratheter seemed idyllically happy. But one fateful day in 1931 brought Marcia's world tumbling about her, and left her and her two daughters without their beloved father. Barty Bendall had always loved her, and the gir...

  • Don't Cry Alone

    In this nineteenth-century historical saga from a “born storyteller,” a woman from a prominent family becomes pregnant by her father’s hired hand(Bedfordshire Times). Beth Ward and Tyler Blacklock share a love they know will last forever. But B...

  • Jessica's Girl



  • Nobody's Darling

    Money is short in the overcrowded little house in Blackburn’s Fisher Street, and Ruby Millar yearns to give her beloved family a better life. So determined is she to enjoy the security that wealth can bring, that she stifles her feelings for handso...

  • Born to Serve

    When Jenny's mistress Claudia seduces her sweetheart, Frank, he leaves ashamed for a new life in Blackburn. Losing Frank is just the first of many disasters that leave Jenny struggling to cope alone. When Claudia gives birth to Frank's baby girl, she...

  • More Than Riches

    When a train accident leaves Rosie's mother dead and her father left crippled and unable to earn a living, it is up to Rosie to keep the wolf from the door.With her mother gone and her sweetheart Adam away in the army, Rosie eagerly awaits this lette...

  • A Little Badness

    Rita Blackthorn's heart was barren and hard. In all of her life she had never truly loved. But she had hated. Beneath the loving gaze of her daughter's soft green eyes, her heart swelled with dark and dangerous emotions.

    Young Cathy Blacktho...

  • Living a Lie

    In 1975 Lucinda Marsh throws herself in front of a speeding train leaving her twelve-year-old daughter Kitty alone, confused and abandoned - save for a selfish aunt, a violent father and her childhood sweetheart Harry Jenkins.

    When Kitty is...

  • The Devil You Know

    Sonny Fareham's lover - and also her boss - is the charismatic Tony Bridgeman, a successful and ruthless man who usually gets what he wants. But for Sonny, the affair that has promised a future of hope and happiness must end in desperate fear. Lat...

  • Vagabonds

    Emma Grady - 3

    From “a born storyteller,”  a nineteenth-century British family saga about a woman reunited with her husband, who goes in search of her estranged daughter (Times & Citizen).   1885. Ex-convict Emma Grady has returned to her hometown...

  • Miss You Forever

    • / General Fiction
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    One winter's night, in the coal-hole in her yard, Rosie finds that a woman sheltering there has been severely beaten by thugs. At a glance, Kathleen looks like an unkempt, aged vagabond who tramps the roads carrying all her worldly possessions in ...

  • A Time for Us

    Lucy Nolan is the golden girl. The only daughter of local grocers, Sally and Mike Nolan, she's grown up in a home of total love and security. The one thing her heart desires is that Jack Hanson might ask her to marry him, and when he does eventual...

  • Cradle of Thorns

    Nell Reece has never known her mother, and her father's burden of guilt about his wife has kept him cowed for years, working as a common labourer on his sister's farm. For all her aunt's spiteful attempts to break Nell's independent spirit, she has n...



  • Tomorrow the World

    Bridget Mulligan loves her husband. He is caring, loyal and dependable " everything a woman could ask for. But she can’t quite forget Harry " the one that got away " and when a snowstorm drives her into his arms, she cannot deny her feelings....

  • Somewhere, Someday

    Barney would always love her, but he couldn't stay, not while his wandering soul craved adventure. Although Kelly had always known he would leave, she could never have imagined how dramatically it would change her world....

  • Rainbow Days

    Silas and Cathleen have loved each other since childhood. But when a jealous woman drives them apart, each is swept to a place where it seems there is no love, no peace, and no way back. This is a dramatic tale of courage and heartbreak....

  • Let It Shine

    Ada Williams once believed money and power would bring her happiness. But now she is all alone except for her greedy son Peter, who waits only for the day he will inherit her fortune. Ada, however, has a different plan altogether.A few miles away in ...

  • Looking Back

    When Molly Tattersall’s mother disappears a short time after a stranger’s visit, Molly is filled with fear and questions. Finding a letter her mother left behind in which she asks Molly to take care of her five siblings, Molly realises her life w...

  • Gilded Cage

    Powerful, hard-hearted Leonard Mears has a dark secret: an illegitimate daughter named Sally. His employee, James Peterson is in love with Isabel, Mears¹ legitimate daughter; but when he meets Sally, his heart and dreams are turned upside down....

  • Love Me or Leave Me

    Beautiful Eva Bereton has just three close friends: Patsy, whom she looks upon as a sister; Bill, once her childhood sweetheart, now married and living in Canada; and her mother, to whom she is devoted. When a tragic accident turns Eva's world ups...

  • The Woman Who Left

    Louise and Ben Hunter's loving marriage is marred only by their unfulfilled longing for a child. Living and working with Ben's father, Ronnie, they are quietly contented. But when Ronnie dies, their whole world changes. Ben's lazy brother, Jacob, ret...

  • Jinnie

    Ten years ago, Louise Hunter's life was torn apart by tragedy. Her husband, Ben, killed himself; her brother-in-law was murdered; and her sister, Susan, abandoned her new-born daughter, revealing the baby is Ben's child. Louise remains haunted by gui...

  • Bad Boy Jack

    Unable to cope with raising his children alone, Robert Sullivan abandons them to others, until he has a change of heart and decides to go back for them. But on the way there, he is involved in a horrific accident.
    Jack and Nancy are placed in t...



  • The Beachcomber

    TWO STRANGERS. . . The windswept village of West Bay is hope, an escape, and a future for Kathy Wilson, who dreams of turning the empty cottage she inherited into a home free of the pain and scorn she suffered back in London. As the summer slowly pa...

  • Live the Dream

    Plain, down-to-earth Amy Maitland can't help but notice the sad and handsome stranger who spends every Tuesday at the local cafe -- an artist who puts his heart and turbulent emotions on canvas in vivid, powerful paintings. No stranger herself to the...

  • Lovers and Liars

    Their love was as young and hopeful as the new century ... Emily Ramsden knows that her feelings for John Hanley go far beyond teenage infatuation. It is love, pure, strong, and as glorious as the surrounding English countryside, and John shares h...

  • The Journey

    The gravestone's inscription reads, "A man of courage. He made the greatest sacrifice of all." At the final resting place of Barney Davidson, in the hills of Bedfordshire, Ben Morgan first encounters Lucy and her grown daughter, Mary, on a snowswept ...

  • Journey's End

    It has been more than twenty years since Vicky Maitland last set foot on English soil. Two decades ago she left the city of Liverpool with her three children -- leaving behind the husband she dearly loved, who had cruelly and inexplicably turned agai...

  • The Loner

    Davie Adams wasn't quite an adult the night he lost it all. His mother gone forever and his father on the run, Davie knew that he could no longer stay in Blackburn, the only home he'd ever known. He made his way to London with little more than the sh...

  • Songbird

    She was once young and vibrant, a beautiful woman with a promising future. But a dark and dangerous secret forced her to leave everything--and everyone--she cared for. Now she lives alone in a quiet riverside town, her heart breaking as she watches t...

  • Girl on the Platform

    'Being aware of people, who for whatever reason find it difficult to read, I was only too pleased to write The Girl On The Platform. Reading is an exciting and demanding pleasure, which I believe should be enjoyed by everyone. I hope that all those w...

  • Divorced and Deadly

    A light-hearted and comic romp from the nation’s favourite storyteller and author of The Loner.Footloose, fancy free and ready to get back in the game, newly divorced Ben is back home with mum which is just where she wants him. But best mate Dickie...

  • Blood Brothers

    Though they were raised by the same decent and well-respected parents, two brothers could not be more different than Frank and Joe Arnold. The pair have nothing in common but blood . . . and Alice Jacobs. Joe has fallen hard for the shy, kindhearted ...



  • Born Bad

    They say you never forget your first love...and it's true. Eighteen years ago when he was still a boy, Harry made a decision that drove him from the place--and the girl--he loved. Somehow in the ensuing years, he made a new life for himself and fo...

  • Midnight

    From the #1 London Times bestselling author Josephine Cox comes a powerful story of a love shrouded in darkness and shocking secrets, and plagued by malignant forces. All Jack's life, his nightmares have haunted him, dragging him back to a place w...

  • The Broken Man

    Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man...It's 1954 and Adam Carter is twelve years old, an only child with no friends nor any self confidence. His father Edward is a bully of a man. A successful and ruthless businessman, he breeds fear into t...

  • The Runaway Woman

    No-one thought she had the courage… Those looking in from the outside think Lucy Lovejoy’s life is like any other, but at the center of her family there is a big empty hole where all the love and warmth should be. Over the years, her children ...

  • Three Letters

    The brand new dramatic novel about the power of a father’s love, a little boy’s journey, and the desperate search for a place to call home. Eight-year-old Casey’s mother Ruth is a cruel woman, with a weakness for other women’s husbands. ...

  • Lonely Girl

    The new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Josephine Cox gets straight to the hope and heartbreak of family drama. One fateful night changes the course of a child’s life forever… Rosie’s mother is a cruel woman and has Rosie’s k...

  • A Family Secret

    Family secrets can weigh the heaviest… Although she’s surrounded by a loving family, Marie is lonely. The secret she has been carrying for many years is a burden -- it’s telling could ruin the lives of those she loves most. Marie’s gran...

  • A Woman's Fortune

    The new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Josephine Cox " the master storyteller.With her family’s fate resting on her shoulders, Evie learns her lessons in life fast. It’s going to take a woman’s courage to find a new beginning…On...

  • Two Sisters

    The pretty Arnold sisters have grown up on their father’s farm and yearn for something more out of life than drudgery and toil. Ellen, loyal and honest, is her father’s favourite, but Georgina is impulsive and unreliable, and can’t please a ...

  • A Daughter's Return

    A compelling family drama from the nation’s favourite storyteller.Can she unlock the secrets of the past?Florence Stanville is a woman with a past. When she moves to Guisethorpe on the east coast of England, the townsfolk are intrigued by the glamo...



  • A Time to Remember

    Don’t miss the gripping new bestseller from the nation’s favourite storyteller!Are some memories best forgotten?Maureen Bancroft has never learned the art of putting herself first. As a widow with a gentle temperament and humble ways, she’s bee...

  • The Letter

    Will its words uncover a dark family secret?Readers love Josephine Cox!’Loved the story and the characters’’Family secrets hidden away for years. I really loved this story’’I was hooked from start to finish’’This one goes to the top of ...

  • Daddy's Girl

    The brand new epic family drama from the nation’s favourite storyteller.Where can a daughter turn when her father’s love is stolen away?When heart-broken Sarah Quinn is left to care for her father and siblings when her mother dies, it’s hard to...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Josephine Cox has published 52 books.

Josephine Cox does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Daddy's Girl, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Josephine Cox, Her Father's Sins, was published in January 1987.

Yes. Josephine Cox has 2 series.
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