Annie Murray

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1995
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Chocolate Girls

1 - Chocolate Girls (Nov-2003)
2 - The Bells of Bournville Green (May-2008)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Birmingham Rose

    Rosa Lucas, born in the slums of Birmingham, is a spirited girl who determines that her own life will be different. Following a childhood marked by tragedy, she joins the ATS during World War II and travels to Southern Italy where she falls in lov...

  • Birmingham Friends

    By the author of “ Birmingham Rose” . Anna grew up with stories of her mother’s childhood in Birmingham and of Kate’s friend, Olivia. But when Kate died, she left her daughter a final story, which told the whole truth of her life with Oliv...

  • Orphan of Angel Street

    This is the story of Mercy who was left by her well-to-do mother as a baby on the steps of a city orphanage. Raised in the slums, she rises above her situation to find happiness and love, and her real family, at last....

  • Poppy Day

    Jessica Hart’s beloved mother has died in childbirth and her stepmother and father are forcing her to marry the dull local blacksmith. She runs away from her country home to Birmingham, arriving late one night on the doorstep of her poverty-stri...

  • Birmingham Blitz

  • The Narrowboat Girl

    Young Maryann Nelson is devastated at the loss of her beloved father. But worse is to come when her mother, Flo, sees an opportunity to better herself and her family in a marriage to the local undertaker, Norman Griffin. Though on the surface a carin...

  • Chocolate Girls

    Chocolate Girls - 1

    In Annie Murray’s bestselling Chocolate Girls, three very different women work together at Cadbury’s Bournville factory, where their lives become entwined by war and work " and a child called David.Edie marries young to escape her unhappy famil...

  • Water Gypsies

    It is 1942, and after a childhood of suffering in Birmingham, Maryann Bartholomew has built a life of happiness and safety with her husband Joel and their children, working the canals on his narrowboat, the Esther Jane. But the back-breaking work and...

  • The Bells of Bournville Green

    Chocolate Girls - 2

    Continuing the saga begun in Annie Murray's Chocolate Girls, and set in 1960s Birmingham, The Bells of Bournville Green is a story of families whose lives are entwined, of belonging and loss . . . and of a young woman's search for transforming love.P...



  • On the Stroke of Mid-Life

    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...

  • Soldier Girl

  • Where Earth Meets Sky

  • Family of Women

  • Miss Purdy's Class

  • All the Days of Our Lives

    It is 1946: the war is over and three young women face a new kind of life. But peacetime brings its own pressures...

    Katie O'Neill's childhood has been dominated by her temperamental mother and by frightening secrets that she barely understa...

  • My Daughter, My Mother

    Product Description Two daughters. Two mothers. The secrets of two lifetimes. Book Description In 1984 two young mothers meet at a toddler group in Birmingham. As their friendship grows, they share with each other the difficulties and secrets in thei...

  • A Hopscotch Summer

    From the Author Annie Murray was born in Berkshire and read English at St John's College, Oxford. Her first 'Birmingham' novel, Birmingham Rose, hit The Times bestseller list when it was published in 1995. She has subsequently written many other succ...

  • The Women of Lilac Street

  • Meet Me Under the Clock

    As the pressures of rationing, bombing raids and sleepless nights grow, two sisters must decide what they really want from life " and if they're brave enough to fight for it. Meet Me Under the Clock is a beautiful wartime story from Annie Murray.Gr...



  • War Babies

  • Now The War Is Over

  • A Wartime Secret

    A Wartime Secret is the moving short story of a family torn apart by war, from bestselling author Annie Murray. Some lies are harder to hide . . . Grace and Ted Chapman married at the beginning of the war, but then Ted was called up to fight . ...

  • The Doorstep Child

    From the Author Annie Murray was born in Berkshire and read English at St John's College, Oxford. Her first 'Birmingham' story, Birmingham Rose, hit the Sunday Times bestseller list when it was published in 1995. She has subsequently written many oth...

  • Sisters of Gold

    Sisters Margaret and Annie lost their mother years ago, they long for her every day. Their protective and devout father keeps the girls close. But he can't protect them all the time . . . When a scandal rocks this family unit to their core, the girls...

  • The Silversmith's Daughter

    The second book in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter series by Sunday Times bestselling author Annie Murray.It''s 1915 and Daisy Tallis, headstrong, impassioned and a talented young silversmith, is desperate to make her parents proud. Her father, Phil...

  • Mother and Child

    Bestselling author Annie Murray explores one family''s suffering - plagued by two horrific accidents - over two generations.BirminghamJo and Ian''s marriage is hanging by a thread. One night almost two years ago, their adopted only child, Paul, twent...

  • Girls in Tin Hats

    Love, friendship, tragedy and courage under Birmingham''s war-torn skies from Sunday Times top ten bestselling author, Annie Murray.It is 1940 and Birmingham is about to see some of the most devastating air raids of the Blitz. Two very different yo...

  • Black Country Orphan

  • Secrets of the Chocolate Girls

    From Annie Murray, the bestselling author of The Bells of Bournville Green, comes Secrets of the Chocolate Girls, another gritty family saga about love, war and chocolate . . . September 1940, Birmingham.While her husband and daughter work at the Ca...



  • Wartime for the Chocolate Girls

    From Annie Murray, the bestselling author of Chocolate Girls, The Bells of Bournville Green and Secrets of the Chocolate Girls, Wartime for the Chocolate Girls is a gritty family saga about love, war and chocolate . . .April 1941.Almost losing her li...

  • Homecomings for the Chocolate Girls

    'A heart-warming and affecting tale.' - Woman's Weekly1946: The war might be over, but for the Gilby family there are still battles to be fought at home . . .For Birmingham and the Gilby family the war years have been a time of great change. With hus...

  • The Pearl Button Girl

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Annie Murray has published 32 books.

The next book by Annie Murray, The Pearl Button Girl, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Annie Murray, Birmingham Rose, was published in February 1995.

Yes. Annie Murray has 1 series.
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