Catrin Collier

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1997
  • Latest Book:
    April 2016
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Full Series List in Order

Brothers & Lovers

1 - Beggars and Choosers (Oct-2003)
2 - Winners and Losers (Apr-2004)
3 - Sinners and Shadows (Nov-2004)
4 - Finders and Keepers (Jun-2005)
5 - Tiger Bay Blues (Apr-2006)
6 - Tiger Ragtime (Jul-2013)

Hearts of Gold

1 - Past Remembering (Apr-1997)
2 - One Blue Moon (May-1999)
3 - A Silver Lining (Sep-2000)
4 - Spoils of War (Apr-2002)
5 - Magda's Daughter (Aug-2008)
6 - Broken Rainbows (Jul-2013)
7 - All That Glitters (Aug-2013)
8 - Such Sweet Sorrow (Aug-2013)

The Long Road to Baghdad

1 - Long Road to Baghdad (Feb-2014)
2 - Winds of Eden (Sep-2014)
3 - Scorpion Sunset (Apr-2015)

Swansea

1 - Swansea Girls (Jan-2001)
2 - Swansea Summer (Apr-2002)
3 - Homecoming (Nov-2005)

The Tsar's Dragons

1 - The Tsar's Dragons (Oct-2014)
1.1 - One Dragon's Dream (Apr-2014)
1.2 - The Dream Begins (Apr-2014)
1.3 - Requiem in the Snow (May-2014)
1.4 - A Cossack Spring (May-2014)
1.5 - A Foreign Shore (Jun-2014)
2 - Princes and Peasants (Apr-2016)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Past Remembering

    Hearts of Gold - 1

    This title is sixth in Catrin Collier's "Hearts of Gold" series. When Ronnie Ronconi returns home from wartime Italy in 1941, he is certain he will never look at a woman again. But love comes when he least expects it....

  • One Blue Moon

    Hearts of Gold - 2

    Maud Powell and her cousin Diana had always dreamed of becoming nurses, but their hopes are shattered when Maud contracts TB -- a death sentence in 1930s' Pontypridd. With pits closing, Haydn abandoning a steady job for a stage career, and their cous...

  • A Silver Lining

    Hearts of Gold - 3

    In this novel two women, Alma Moore and Bethan Powell, are forced to confront society and their own emotions. Charlie Rashenko, a Russian refugee haunted by his past, is the only man prepared to help them....

  • Swansea Girls

    Swansea - 1

    On Saturday nights, the Pier Ballroom in Swansea is the place to be. As the girls and boys gather, we are introduced to Lily, an evacuee unclaimed by her family at the end of the war; to Judy, taught independence by her war widow mother; for Katie, ...

  • Spoils of War

    Hearts of Gold - 4

    It is 1946 and the soldiers who have been away for the war are beginning to return home. But not all the reunions are happy. As the people of Pontypridd struggle to rebuild their lives, they discover that the end of war only marks the beginning of an...

  • Swansea Summer

    Swansea - 2

  • Beggars and Choosers

    Brothers & Lovers - 1

    In Pontypridd and the Rhondda in 1905, coal is king and the families who sunk the first collieries are rich. None is wealthier or more generous a benefactor than Harry Watkin Jones. His daughter Sali is about to marry her childhood sweetheart, but tr...

  • Winners and Losers

    Brothers & Lovers - 2

    Tonypandy in 1910 is a town of poverty, hardship, and strife, garrisoned by troops brought in to control the striking miners whose anger all too frequently erupts into bouts of violence and rioting. Megan Williams is 18 and in love with the boy next...

  • Sinners and Shadows

    Brothers & Lovers - 3

    Orphaned at age 8 and raised by a brutal brother, nineteen-year-old Rhian dreams of meeting a man who will love her and give a family of her own. When she is invited to join the Evans family on New Year's Eve 1913, her life is thrown into turmoil. T...



  • Finders and Keepers

    Brothers & Lovers - 4

    Harry Evans's first years of life were blighted by a brutal stepfather. At the age of five his mother, Sali, married a miner, Lloyd Evans, a passionate believer in workers' rights. When he returns to Pontypridd after school, he finds that his beloved...

  • Homecoming

    Swansea - 3

    It is January 1957 and Helen's husband Jack returns from National Service. Happy to be reunited, they resume their life together with their friends. Then Helen is utterly shattered when Jack tells her that a brief fling with a sergeant's widow has le...

  • Tiger Bay Blues

    Brothers & Lovers - 5

    At 18, Edyth is the plain, intelligent one of Harry and Sali Evans's five daughters, until a chance meeting with handsome Peter Slater throws her life into turmoil. Head over heels in love, she sacrifices her own ambitions of a college education and...

  • One Last Summer

    The first novel in this series, Jack-Knifed, saw the introduction of Detective Chief Inspector Martin Phelps, together with his sidekick, Detective Sergeant Matt Pryor, and their team, investigating the horrendous murder of a gay man in Cardiff. Now ...

  • Magda's Daughter

    Hearts of Gold - 5

    The secret Magda carried to her grave threatens her daughter's happiness in this wonderful saga set in Pontypridd. Stateless and destitute after World War II, Magda Janek settled in Pontypridd, in the hope of building a new life for herself and her b...

  • Black-eyed Devils

  • Bobby's Girl

    CAPE COD STANDARD, MONDAY SEPT 2ND 1968 In the early hours of Sunday morning a custom built, imported European automobile left the approach road to the Brosna Estate, crashed and burst into flames. Eyewitnesses reported seeing the vehicle with four p...

  • Broken Rainbows

    Hearts of Gold - 6

    The third novel in the Long Road to Baghdad series, a vivid, moving, historically accurate account of a conflict between Eastern and Western Empires. 1916, Mesopotamia. The Turks order prisoners from the siege of Kut to march the hundreds of miles to...

  • Tiger Ragtime

    Brothers & Lovers - 6

    A tale of love and hardship set in wild and beautiful 19th century Cornwall. Born into a once-respectable family, circumstances have reduced Roz Trevaskis to working at the local inn. In order to pay the fines incurred through her alcoholic mother's ...

  • All That Glitters

    Hearts of Gold - 7

    ‘A page-turner... a terrific read’Susan SallisA powerful tale of survival and hardship, very well crafted and with strong characters -Publishing NewsAll that Glitters– Book Four in the Hearts of Gold series by Catrin CollierIn 1939,...



  • Such Sweet Sorrow

    Hearts of Gold - 8

  • Poppies at the Well

    Josephine Anderson, youngest of the immense Anderson clan, has an itch to travel and to put some distance between herself and Piney Woods, Louisiana, and she is determined to scratch it with a stint as a traveling actor for a murder mystery dinner sh...

  • Christmas Eve in the Workhouse

    There are a lot of legends about the Arizona desert. One which has kept people flocking there for a century is the tale of the 'Lost Dutchman' and his goldmine ... but nothing has ever been found of Jacob Walz and his mysterious treasure. Until now ....

  • Long Road to Baghdad

    The Long Road to Baghdad - 1

  • The Dream Begins

    The Tsar's Dragons - 1.2

    In 1840s Cornwall, 25-year-old Sarah Govier supports herself and her illegitimate son, Jory, on the income from Talvan, the granite quarry she inherited from her father. But businessman Kinser Landry has good reason for wanting Talvan and will stop a...

  • One Dragon's Dream

    The Tsar's Dragons - 1.1

    Killing by Colours, the third in the DCI Martin Phelps series, takes Martin in search of a serial killer who appears to have somewhat of a personal interest in the DCI himself. When the body of the killer's first victim is discovered at a popular Car...

  • A Cossack Spring

    The Tsar's Dragons - 1.4

    A hidden past, a dangerous love and a voice to reach across the ages. A brand new title from best-selling author Catrin Collier. Allenstein, East Prussia, 1939 - Charlotte von Datski's parents hold a glittering ball to celebrate her eighteenth birthd...

  • Requiem in the Snow

    The Tsar's Dragons - 1.3

    Following the death of her brother Victoria Pringle has lost touch with his fiance so it is a surprise to learn that she has a nephew, Peter. In spite of his upbringing he has inherited his ancestor's love of the land but he faces fierce opposition i...

  • A Foreign Shore

    The Tsar's Dragons - 1.5

    In 1960s Scotland, the farming industry is on the brink of huge changes, becoming more mechanised and less dependent on manpower, but at Lochandee, it is a time of hope and promise for the future. Ross and Rachel Maxwell have every reason to be proud...

  • Winds of Eden

    The Long Road to Baghdad - 2

    December 1915. Following heavy casualties, General Townsend withdraws his exhausted troops to the town of Kut Al Amara, Iraq. His orders " to engage as many Turkish troops as possible in a siege situation. A relief force is hastily assembled, among...



  • The Tsar's Dragons

    The Tsar's Dragons - 1

    In 1869, â,"modernisingâ, Russian tsar, Alexander II, decided to drag Russia into the industrial age. He began by inviting Welsh entrepreneur John Hughes to build an ironworks in the Russian Steppes.A wealthy, successful, Victorian businessm...

  • Scorpion Sunset

    The Long Road to Baghdad - 3

  • Princes and Peasants

    The Tsar's Dragons - 2

    The second volume in Catrin Collier's epic The Tsar's Dragons series, set in the late nineteenth-century Russian Empire. Welsh industrialist John Hughes has built an ironworks on the Russian Steppe - and a city bearing his name has grown up around it...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Catrin Collier has published 32 books.

Catrin Collier does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Princes and Peasants, was published in April 2016.

The first book by Catrin Collier, Past Remembering, was published in April 1997.

Yes. Catrin Collier has 5 series.
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