Charlotte Bingham

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1966
  • Latest Book:
    October 2014
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The Honourable Charlotte Mary Thérèse Bingham was born on 29 June 1942 in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England, UK. Her father, John Bingham, the 7th Baron Clanmorris, wrote detective stories and was a secret member of MI5. Her mother, Madeleine Bingham, née Madeleine Mary Ebel, was a playwright. Charlotte first attended a school in London, but from the age of seven to 16, she went to the Priory of Our Lady's Good Counsel school in Haywards Heath. After she left school, she went to stay in Paris with some French aristocrats with the intention of learning French. She had written since she was 10 years old and her first piece of work was a thriller called Death's Ticket. She wrote her humorous autobiography, called Coronet Among the Weeds, when she was 19, and not long before her twentieth birthday a literary agent discovered her celebrating at the Ritz. He was a friend of her parents and he took off the finished manuscript of her autobiography. In 1963, this was published by Heinemanns and was a best seller.

In 1966, Charlotte Bingham's first novel, called Lucinda, was published. This was later adapted into a TV screenplay. In 1972, Coronet Among the Grass, her second autobiography, was published. This talked about the first ten years of her marriage to fellow writer Terence Brady. They couple, who have two children, later adapted Coronet Among the Grass and Coronet Among the Weeds, into the TV sitcom No, Honestly. She and her husband, Terence Brady, wrote three early episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs together, Board Wages, I Dies from Love and Out of the Everywhere. They later wrote an accompanying book called Rose's Story. They also wrote the episodes of Take Three Girls featuring Victoria (Liza Goddard). In the 1970s Brady and Bingham wrote episodes for the TV series Play for Today, Three Comedies of Marriage, Yes, Honestly and Robin's Nest. During the 1980s and 1990s they continued to write for the occasional TV series, and in 1993 adapted Jilly Cooper's novel Riders for the small screen. Since the 1980s she has become a romance novelist. In 1996 she won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Full Series List in Order

The Bexham Trilogy

1 - The Chestnut Tree (Aug-2002)
2 - The Wind Off the Sea (Feb-2003)
3 - The Moon at Midnight (Aug-2003)

Debutantes

1 - Debutantes (Jul-1995)
2 - The Season (Mar-2001)

The Eden

1 - Daughters of Eden (Feb-2004)
2 - The House of Flowers (Aug-2004)

Love Quartet

1 - Belgravia (Aug-1983)
2 - Country Life (May-1985)
3 - At Home (Sep-1986)
4 - By Invitation (Jan-1993)

Mums on the Run

1 - Mums On the Run (Mar-2010)
2 - A Dip Before Breakfast (May-2014)

Nightingale

1 - To Hear a Nightingale (Jul-1988)
2 - The Nightingale Sings (Aug-1996)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • Lucinda

  • Belgravia

    Love Quartet - 1

    Georgiana is poor, posh and beautiful. Jennifer, her best friend, is rich, middle-class and fat. They are both sent out to the London cocktail parties, balls and luncheons of a debutante's "coming out" to find mates who will enrich or ennoble them....

  • Country Life

    Love Quartet - 2

    Further adventures of the lives of characters first met in LOVE IN BELGRAVIA - dreary little Jennifer, now a seemingly permanently pregnant marchioness, beautiful but vexatious Georgiana who while recovering from her affair with a world famous film d...

  • At Home

    Love Quartet - 3

    Lady Georgiana loves an artist but instead marries a Scottish lord who addresses her as if she were a board meeting, while her friend Jennifer's husband seems far too friendly with the butler....

  • To Hear a Nightingale

    Nightingale - 1

    A saga of country life in America and Ireland in the 1950s follows the fortunes of Cassie McGann, brought up in smalltown America by a grandmother who despises her, her childhood is one of misery and rejection. Fleeing to New York she falls in love w...

  • The Business

    Meredith Browne came up the hard way, starting at the bottom as a child actress. Max Kassov, on the other hand, has always had everything. Despite their different backgrounds the two are very alike, and a mutual attraction deepens into a passionate l...

  • In Sunshine or In Shadow

    A story set in Boston, the Irish countryside and war-torn London, which tells of the friendship between two very different girls who love the same man. Ellie is American to the core, well-behaved and beautiful, and Artemis, crippled by a riding accid...

  • Stardust

    Elizabeth Laurence has always been beautiful and used to the admiration of everyone, but becomes obsessed with a man who appears not to notice her - her handsome co-star in a hit play. This Charlotte Bingham tale of love, obsession and jealousy is se...

  • By Invitation

    Love Quartet - 4

    The beautiful Lady Georgiana Longborough and her friend Jennifer Parker-Jones, 7th Marchioness of Pemberton, are finding life a little too dull in deepest Wilt-shire. Jennifer's answer to all her problems it seems is to give a Summer Ball. But the so...



  • Nanny

    Grace is born into the comfortable middle-class life of provincial Edwardian England, but is forced to enter service as a lower housemaid at the home of the ancient Lydiard family, before rising rapidly to the position of nanny. The author has writte...

  • Change of Heart

    A saga which portrays the reality that surrounds the lives of the truly prodigious, and explores the effect that a child can have on the adult world. The parents of musical prodigy Fleur Fisher-Dilke find their lives are changed for ever when her gen...

  • Debutantes

    Debutantes - 1

    A delightful and stylish new saga, centers around a single London season in the 1890s. But it is not just about the debutantes themselves--it is as much about the women who launch them, and the society that supports their way of life. It is also abou...

  • The Nightingale Sings

    Nightingale - 2

    When Cassie Rosse becomes the first woman to train an English Derby winner, with her home-bred horse The Nightingale, she has every right to believe that success is hers at last. Indeed, as she leads in her winner and raises her eyes to heaven, calli...

  • Grand Affair

    Unaware of the misery that surrounded her birth, for the first four years of her life all Ottilie Cartaret knows is love. And when her mother, Ma O'Flaherty, moves her family to what she believes will be rural bliss in St Elcombe in Cornwall, their f...

  • Love Song

    When Hope's husband's business venture fails, the family have to leave their cosy suburban life for the isolation of Wiltshire's rolling acres. Before long, Hope falls passionately in love with a neighbour, Jack. It is left to her three daughters to ...

  • The Kissing Garden

    A romantic tale set in the English countryside and featuring childhood sweethearts who are attempting to rekindle their love for each other after World War I. As children, George Dashwood and Amelia Dennison loved to roam the Sussex Downs in compa...

  • Country Wedding

  • The Love Knot

    An intriguing, romantic bestseller about the Victorian politics of love and marriage which follows the fortunes of three very different young women. Beautiful Leonie, brought up by foster parents, receives a surprise from her wealthy godmother and...

  • The Blue Note

    During the Second World War, Eastenders Miranda and Ted are sent to the country with another young evacuee, Roberta (Bobbie), to live with two unmarried sisters in their idyllic rectory. The time they spend with Aunt Sophie and Aunt Prudence turns th...



  • The Season

    Debutantes - 2

    Portia and Emily meet to launch their daughters on an unsuspecting Society for the London Season of 1913. Both are determined that their offspring, Phyllis and Edith, will catch the eye of their friend May's son, a future Duke. As always, the Season ...

  • Summertime

    When Trilby meets Lewis, the all-powerful proprietor of a newspaper group, she suspects that her life might be about to change, but not, as it happens, forever. For not only does Lewis wish to acquire her cartoon strip, but also Trilby herself. Trilb...

  • Distant Music

    Life was tough in England after the Second World War -- at least it was for those who were not part of some particular elite, the fabulously wealthy or the tiny coterie of British film and theatre stars. Little wonder then that Elsie Lancaster, the g...

  • The Chestnut Tree

    The Bexham Trilogy - 1

    By bestselling British writer Charlotte Bingham, The Chestnut Tree is a sweeping, romantic novel about the women who stayed behind in World War II. It is the summer of 1939, and the residents of the idyllic Sussex fishing port of Bexham are prepar...

  • The Wind Off the Sea

    The Bexham Trilogy - 2

    It is 1947, the worst winter in England since records began, and even the sea is frozen. For the women living in the little fishing port of Bexham, the chronic lack of everything from fuel to food has left them reeling. When Waldo Astley drives th...

  • The Moon at Midnight

    The Bexham Trilogy - 3

    It is late autumn, 1962, and darkness is falling, but not just over the idyllic fishing port of Bexham. The threat of atomic warfare is so real that people are taking their children to work, or staying home with their families as they face what they ...

  • Daughters of Eden

    The Eden - 1

    Focuses on the lives and fortunes of four young women at the outbreak of the Second World War. Marjorie, left at a boarding school by her emigrating mother; plain Poppy, pushed into marriage with a mean-spirited aristocrat; Kate, despised by her fath...

  • The House of Flowers

    The Eden - 2

    It is 1941, and England is at its lowest ebb, under-nourished, under-informed and terrified of imminent invasion. Even at Eden Park, the beautiful country estate where Poppy, Lily, Kate, Marjorie and her adopted brother Billy are working in espionage...

  • The Magic Hour

    When Alexandra goes to stay with her cousins at Knighton Hall she is made to feel the poor relation; the daughters of the house are both beautiful and wealthy. She will not meet the handsome stable lad, Tom O’Brien, until much later.

    When Al...

  • Friday's Girl

    When the famous portrait artist Napier Todd stumbles across Edith Hanson scrubbing floors, he is immediately struck by her beauty. Within a few weeks Napier and Edith are married and she moves into his large country house ? much to the envy of the ot...



  • Out of the Blue

    A romantic and suspenseful read with a fresh, contemporary setting.

    When Amadea Fontaine wakes upon her thirtieth birthday to find a naked man in the spare room of her immaculate flat, she is horrified, not least because -- suffering from he...

  • In Distant Fields

    Her wonderful new story, sure to be another bestseller, is about love and heartbreak, but most importantly, the remarkable nature of female friendship. Christmas 1913: Kitty and Lady Partita are best friends despite vastly different backgrounds. P...

  • The White Marriage

    A wonderfully romantic and nostalgic novel set in the 1950s about the destruction of innocence. Sunny's mundane country life is changed over night when handsome, stylish Gray's Bentley breaks down outside her parents' cottage in Rushington. It see...

  • Goodnight Sweetheart

    A romantic wartime novel encompassing both love and tragedy. As Walter Berrisford paints beautiful Katherine Garland, she asks him to put a ladybird on her finger without his knowing why. He is appalled when he discovers that Katherine is a Nazi. ...

  • The Enchanted

    When Kathleen finds a mare in foal, despite the fact that she and her father can barely afford to feed her, they take her in. Tragically the mare dies, leaving an orphan that they name The Enchanted. As the young horse grows up among Ireland’s lush...

  • The Land of Summer

    Emmaline has always understood from her mother that as the eldest of four daughters she must marry, but it seems that no proposals are going to come her way. Until, at a crowded ball, Julius makes his way to her side and waltzes her off. The next mor...

  • The Daisy Club

    Daisy lives at Twistleton Hall, along with her unmarried Aunt Augusta, and the spirits of her four dead uncles from World War One. Her life therefore has been overshadowed by the Great War, as has those of her friends Freddie and Lorna who live nearb...

  • Mums On the Run

    Mums on the Run - 1

    MUMS ON THE RUN tells the often hilarious story of two middle-aged women, Pat and Sam, intent on fleeing hearth and home for a blissful, family-free fortnight of drawing and cooking classes â�,�“ only to end up at leaky old Hartley House. There th...

  • A Dip Before Breakfast

    Mums on the Run - 2

    Biddy is still struggling to help nephew Tom make Hartley House a financial success. When Boris - their Polish handyman/butler �" suggests they put in a swimming pool, Biddy reluctantly agrees. But the pool is not quite the attraction they had hoped...

  • The Light on the Swan

    Violet Talland is trying to bring up her six year old daughter Matilda under difficult circumstances with an absent, uncaring husband and an overly possessive mother in law who is determined to end Violet’s marriage and regain possession of both he...



Award-Winning Books by Charlotte Bingham

Change of Heart
1995 RoNA -- Romantic Novel of the Year


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charlotte Bingham has published 39 books.

Charlotte Bingham does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Light on the Swan, was published in October 2014.

The first book by Charlotte Bingham, Lucinda, was published in January 1966.

Yes. Charlotte Bingham has 6 series.
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