Rosamunde Pilcher

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1965
  • Latest Book:
    August 2021
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Rosamunde Scott was born on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall, England, UK, daughter of Helen and Charles Scott, a British commander. Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, her mother remained in England. She attended St. Clare's Polwithen and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College. She began writing when she was seven, and published her first short story when she was 18. From 1943 through 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Naval Service. On 7 December 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher, a war hero and jute industry executive who died in March 2009. They moved to Dundee, Scotland. She died on February 6, 2019 at the age of 94 in Longforgan, United Kingdom. They had two daughters and two sons, and fourteen grandchildren. Her son, Robin Pilcher, is also a novelist.

In 1949, her first book, a romance novel, was published by Mills & Boon, under the pseudonym Jane Fraser. She published a further ten novels under that name. In 1955, she also began writing under her married name Rosamunde Pilcher, by 1965 she her own name to all of her novels. In 1996, her novel Coming Home won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by Romantic Novelists' Association. She retired from writing in 2000. Two years later, she was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

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Related Books

1 - The Shell Seekers (Dec-1987)
2 - September (Mar-1990)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • On My Own

  • Sleeping Tiger

    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    DANGEROUS QUEST Selina was a quiet, sensible young woman. In two weeks she would marry, a quiet, sensible man. !Chad all been arranged. Sensibly. Then one day a face from her past appeared, a photograph on the back of a book jacket and suddenly...

  • Another View

    Emma Litton couldn't get on with her life until she found out just what place she'd had in her fathers heart. She'd been going to school in Europe since she was fourteen, then found a job in Paris, always wondering what her famous artist father was d...

  • The End of Summer

    Sitting on a California beach at summer's end, Jane Marsh thought back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie in a remote corner of Scotland. She remembered not only the heather-covered hills and lonesome loch, but her grandmother... and, of cou...

  • Snow in April

    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Caroline Cliburn was to be married next Tuesday, and yet she suspected that gratitude was the wrong reason to become a bride. Perhaps that was why she and her younger brother Jody had taken the long drive north to Scotland in search of her missing br...

  • The Empty House

    When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another-the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect mo...

  • The Day of the Storm

    Rebecca Bayliss rushed to her dying mother's bedside only to come away shattered by more than grief: her mother had revealed the existence of a family Rebecca knew nothing about. Determined to find them, Rebecca began her journey to a Cornwall mansio...

  • Under Gemini

    Every family hides something, but Flora Waring discovered a devastating deception in hers. At twenty-two she learned she had an identical twin, Rose, who lived with the mother Flora didn't remember at all. And when Flora ended up impersonating the hi...

  • Wild Mountain Thyme

    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Victoria Bradshaw fell in love with London playwright Oliver Dobbs when she was just eighteen. But he had left her and disappeared from her life. Now, years later, he was a widower standing on her doorstep wit his two-year-old son in his arms. And Vi...



  • The Carousel

    Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love have touched the world.Return to the sun-drenched settings of The Shell Seekers and the rich emotion of Coming Home, as Rosamunde Pilcher takes you on an unforgettable j...

  • Voices in Summer

    For the shy, lovely, newely-married Laura Haveerstock the beauty of Cornwall in summer surpassed all expectation. Brilliant sun danced on a jewel-like sea, gardens abounded with dazzling color, and the air was fragrant with oneysuckle. But with he...

  • The Blue Bedroom and Other Stories

    Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love have touched the world.With her evocative bestsellers The Shell Seekers and Coming Home, Rosamunde Pilcher opened your heart to the extraordinary powers of love, heartbr...

  • The Shell Seekers

    Related Books - 1

    THE SHELL SEEKERS is a novel of connection: of one family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. THE SHELL SEEKERS is filled with real people--mothers and daughters, husbands and lovers--inspired wi...

  • September

    Related Books - 2

    Rosamunde Pilcher's Scotland ...where the fields flourish with greenery, the hills bloom with purple, and the lochs glitter with the bright blue of the sky. September...when the heather is in full flower, the first chill of autumn cools the air, a...

  • Flowers in the Rain and Other Stories

    Flowers in the Rain & Other Stories collects sixteen of #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher’s romantic tales set across Britain from the Scottish countryside to the city of London. She makes you laugh...She makes you cry......

  • The Stone Boy

    in The Anthology of Love and Romance

  • Coming Home

    Against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II and a vast continent-spanning canvas during the turbulent war years, this involving story tells of an extraordinary young woman's coming of age, coming to grips with love and sad...

  • The Key

    Ruth looked at the roofless, eyeless shell of the old house. Here families had lived,children had played, babies had benn born and old men had died. Here, in the serenity of the country, young girls had dressed for their first parties, the house fill...

  • Christmas with Rosamunde Pilcher

    Rosamunde Pilcher, the beloved author of The Shell Seekers and Coming Home, invites you to share the magic of the Christmas season with her and her family as they celebrate the holiday in timeless Scottish tradition. From the quiet preparations of wr...



  • Winter Solstice

    Elfrida Phipps, once on the London stage and retired at 62, never anticipates going off with a man. But after a devastating tragedy, church organist Oscar Blundell asks for her companionship. So with her brown-and-white dog in tow, Elfrida begins her...

  • A Secret to Tell

  • The Blue Bedroom

    The big bedroom was lovely: all pale, blue and white, satin and muslin, cool and airy, the windows looking out over the garden to the creek. But to fourteen-year-old Emily, beautiful though it was, it was all wrong. Her stepmother's bedroom now: ever...

  • A Time to Remember

    Two of Rosamunde Pilcher’s most heartfelt novels reveal the sanctity of second chances and the irresistible pull of the past. The Empty House At twenty-seven, Virginia has been through more than most people experience in a lifetime. When she an...

  • A Place Like Home: Stories

    Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love touched the world. A Place Like Home is a spellbinding collection of short stories by internationally bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher, never before published...

Award-Winning Books by Rosamunde Pilcher

Coming Home
1996 RoNA -- Romantic Novel of the Year


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rosamunde Pilcher has published 24 books.

Rosamunde Pilcher does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Place Like Home: Stories, was published in August 2021.

The first book by Rosamunde Pilcher, On My Own, was published in January 1965.

Yes. Rosamunde Pilcher has 1 series.
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