Linda Sole

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1990
  • Latest Book:
    August 2011
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About the Author

Linda Sole was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, the daughter of a schoolteacher and a ladies hairdresser who, after leaving high school at 15, worked in her father’s shop until she married. She ran her own hairdressing salon for a while, then gave it up to write and help her husband run his antique business.

Her first success came in 1979 when, writing as Lynn Granville, she was accepted by Robert Hale. Success with Mills & Boon came soon after and Devil's Kin was published in 1981 as Anne Herries. She wrote 12 books for Mills & Boon before trying her hand at mainstream fiction. She has now written several books under her own name of Linda Sole and other pseudonyms. However, Mills & Boon remains one of her favorite publishers because of the friendly family atmosphere. She decided to write for them again while continuing her other work — it's a busy life, but fulfilling! Writing has always been a pleasure and is a dream come true for her.

Living in Cambridgeshire, she is happily married and enjoys many other things in the company of her husband. Her main interests apart from writing are watching good films and reading other authors; also walking in the sun and swimming — mostly in Spain because it's warmer. Her main love, apart from her husband and writing, is for animals and birds. She loves feeding the squirrels that come regularly to her garden, as well as many varieties of birds — and even foxes during the recent bad weather. She says happiness comes from enjoying the good things around us.

Full Series List in Order

Family Feud

1 - The Lie (Sep-2008)
2 - A Promise Made (Mar-2009)
3 - Winners and Losers (Sep-2009)
4 - Briar Patch (Aug-2011)

Sarah Beaufort Mysteries

1 - Miscarriage of Justice (Jan-2007)
2 - Justice Is Served (Aug-2007)
3 - A Different Kind of Justice (Feb-2008)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Lovers and Sinners

    This romance, with a regional setting of Cambridgeshire fens, is set in the forties and fifties and tells the story of a woman hanged for the murder of the only man she ever loved. Betty Cantrell was once a housemaid in a lonely windswept house in...

  • The Last Summer of Innocence

    Set in 1913, this romantic saga moves from the Cambridgeshire fens to the battlefields of World War I France. Forced by her mother to move in with wealthy distant cousins in order to avoid seeing her mother die of consumption. Sixteen-year-old Kate L...

  • The Shadow Players

    After a comfortable upbringing in Norfolk, the attractive and well-off Aline lands an interesting job in London - and when she meets handsome and successful Piers, her happiness seems complete. But she's troubled by disturbing, terrifying memories th...

  • All Their Days

    Nellie's shrewish mother shocks her on her 14th birthday with the news that she must leave school to go into service. Not until the advent of World War II does Nellie cease being the victim of circumstances. She returns home, solves her mother's unha...

  • This Land, This Love

    Aden Sawle cares for only two things in life: his land, and lovely Rebecca Cottrel. But Rebecca's father has raised her to expect a better match than a poor Cambridgeshire farmer, so Aden distracts himself with another girl - until a shocking turn of...

  • Spring Will Come

    Dark-eyed and distant, the illegitimate Shima, raised by gypsies, is very different from his father's other children. Although fiercely desired by a lovely gypsy girl, he turns his attentions towards Sorrell Harris, who has loved Shima's half-brother...

  • Flame Child

    It was always the same recurring dream that had haunted Annabel's childhood, the terrifying image of the fire that had killed her mother and baby brother, but she could never remember how it started. She couldn't be sure that it wasn't her fault. Ann...

  • The Ties That Bind

    When Emma Robinson falls in love with a man far above her own station in life, there are harsh consequences - she discovers that she is carrying Paul Greenslade's child, there are harsh consequences after he has disappeared rather than marry a common...

  • The Bonds That Break

    When Emma's husband is shot down over war-torn France and declared missing, she finds companionship and support with her would-be suitor, Jack. But for how long can Emma deny the man who excites such passion in her? And will Jon, by now reduced to a ...



  • The Hearts That Hold

    Emma Reece is slowly adjusting to her husband's return from the war, even though his appalling injuries mean their marriage is in name only. But then tragedy strikes, and Emma finds she cannot turn to her long-standing friend and one-time lover, Jack...

  • A Cornish Rose

    After her lover, impetuous young Gerard de Arnay, is killed in a riding accident, Jenny Heron makes her way to England. Though she will never forget her first love - indeed, while she carries his child he cannot be forgotten - she is determined to pu...

  • The Rose Arch

    Brought up by friends of her mother's deep in the French countryside, Jenny Heron's world is an idyllic one of vineyards and everlasting summers. But Jenny's mother Adele decides that at sixteen, Jenny is beginning to grow up too quickly, and insists...

  • A Rose in Winter

    Julia Allington has just turned seventeen when she first meets Captain Charles Hamilton. A casualty of war he has lost all memory of his family or life before he heroically saved a soldier from the trenches. He has come to the home of Julia's parents...

  • Bridget

    Bridget has always been the one to take on the responsibility for her family and with a drunken, violent mother, an unemployed brother who can't stay out of pub brawls and a wayward sister vulnerable to the affections of disreputable men, it's hardly...

  • Song for Athena

    Julia is bored with her lifestyle as a secretary in London; the only excitement is meeting attractive Nick Ryan. When she gets a phone call from the older sister she barely knows, and an invitation to go to Spain for a while, she agrees wholeheartedl...

  • Kathy

    Kathy Cole, Ernie's--Bridget's first love--daughter, is a determined young woman. She refuses to stay at home with her bitter, drunken father, but wants to do her bit in the First World War, and train to be a nurse. During training she meets again To...

  • Amy

    Amy Robinson and her fiance Matthew are struggling to resist the temptations faced by a soon-to-be-wed couple. To avoid these, Matthew throws himself into a new job that takes him away from Amy, and she goes to work in an exclusive new dress shop, wh...

  • Give Me Tomorrow

    When Jessie Hale loses her nursing job at the end of the First World War, she leaves London to take up the post of nursery maid to the Kendle family in Devon. But when she arrives it is to find an unhappy household. The elderly nanny has collapsed wi...

  • A Bright New Day

    The new title in the Country House series Annabel Tarleton is being pushed towards marriage to wealthy Richard Hansen by her ambitious mother. At first she is attracted to him, but then she meets Paul Keifer and falls in love. However, her mother doe...



  • Wish Down the Moon

    Georgie Bridges married Arthur because the man she loved was marrying someone else, but now that her husband is dying she feels that her life has been a failure. When, at the beginning of the World War II, she is told that her house is being taken ov...

  • Miscarriage of Justice

    Sarah Beaufort Mysteries - 1

    It is autumn 1924. Sarah Beaufort and Larch Henderson are good friends who join together to discover the killer of Miss Bates, a seemingly harmless old lady living with her cat and her memories. When Morna, a gypsy girl, is strangled in the woods, ca...

  • Justice Is Served

    Sarah Beaufort Mysteries - 2

    Sarah Beaufort's life has settled down since the sinister murders in her grandmother's village of Beecham Thorny - murders which Sarah, childhood pal Larch Henderson and ex-Scotland Yarder Ben Marshall investigated. Sarah is in a successful West End ...

  • A Different Kind of Justice

    Sarah Beaufort Mysteries - 3

    While visiting her estranged mother in prohibition New York, a series of so-called 'Playboy Murders' grab beautiful young Sarah Beaufort's attention. But while she's as inquisitive as ever, harsh experience has taught Sarah to leave the investigation...

  • Cassie's Sheikh

  • A Kind of Loving

  • Chateau Despair

  • The Lie

    Family Feud - 1

    The Second World War has brought with it many changes to the lives of the Searles family, and now with the Battle of Britain looming and her father's body barely cold, youngest daughter Emily must put on a brave face to celebrate the engagement of he...

  • A Promise Made

    Family Feud - 2

    The eagerly-awaited second novel in the Family Feud series - Frances Danby has spent the Second World War years longing for her husband Marcus to return. When he does, Frances fears for her marriage. Marcus is withdrawn and begins to drink heav...

  • The Princess and the Wolf



  • Winners and Losers

    Family Feud - 3

    When Sarah Jenkins meets Connor Searles she is truly attracted to him. But Connor has just joined a rock n’ roll band, and Sarah can’t help feeling jealous when she sees newspaper pictures of him with other girls. Connor’s band proves to be a m...

  • Ryan's Son

  • All My Sins

    London, 1920s. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Bailey lives in terror of her father's drunken rages. In a moment of fury, as she tries to defend her mother from another vicious beating, Maggie throws boiling water at her father. Though her mother cannot forg...

  • Tears Will Not Save Them

    For many years, Jane Shaw has had to cope with her mother's bad temper whilst caring for her beloved disabled brother. When he dies unexpectedly, Jane refuses to continue as her mother's unpaid servant and finds herself a job away from home looking a...

  • Briar Patch

    Family Feud - 4

    1887. When farmer's daughter Carrie Blake announces that she has been ravished by Squire Thornton, it sets off a train of tragic events. Her elder brother Dick challenges the squire -- and both end up dead. Her father turns to drink, leaving Carrie...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Linda Sole has published 34 books.

Linda Sole does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Briar Patch, was published in August 2011.

The first book by Linda Sole, Lovers and Sinners, was published in July 1990.

Yes. Linda Sole has 2 series.
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