Deborah Challinor

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2002
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Convict Girls

1 - Behind The Sun (Jan-2010)
2 - Girl Of Shadows (Jan-2014)
3 - The Silk Thief (Jan-2014)
4 - A Tattooed Heart (Jan-2015)

The Restless Years

1 - From the Ashes (Nov-2018)
2 - The Jacaranda House (Aug-2020)
3 - The Leonard Girls (Apr-2022)

The Smuggler's Wife

1 - Kitty (Feb-2010)
2 - Amber (Oct-2007)
3 - Band of Gold (Jul-2010)
4 - The Cloud Leopard's Daughter (Nov-2016)

Tamar Deane Trilogy

1 - Tamar (Jan-2002)
2 - White Feathers (Aug-2003)
3 - Blue Smoke (Sep-2005)

Tatty Crowe

1 - Black Silk and Sympathy (Apr-2024)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Tamar

    Tamar Deane Trilogy - 1

    A dramatic saga of love, scandal and survival. When Tamar Deane is orphaned at 17 in a small Cornish village, she seizes her one chance for a new life and emigrates to New Zealand. Alone and frightened on the Plymouth quay she is befriended by an ext...

  • White Feathers

    Tamar Deane Trilogy - 2

  • Blue Smoke

    Tamar Deane Trilogy - 3

  • Fire

    An historical romance based on the Ballantynes Department Store Fire in 1947 that killed 41 people, most of them store employees trapped in controversial circumstances. Set in an unnamed NZ city in 1953, Fire tells the story of four working class f...

  • Amber

    The Smuggler's Wife - 2

  • Behind The Sun

    Convict Girls - 1

  • Kitty

    The Smuggler's Wife - 1

    When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father dies unexpectedly in Norfolk in 1838, Kitty and her mother are left impoverished. After Kitty is discovered in a compromising position with an unscrupulous adventurer, her reputation is left in shreds. In d...

  • Isle of Tears

    A vivid and compelling story of enduring love and divided families from one of our bestselling historical novelists. When armed conflict drives a wedge between Maori and Pakeha, not everyone can choose sides easily. For Isla McKinnon, the choices are...

  • Band of Gold

    The Smuggler's Wife - 3



  • Union Belle

    A full-blooded romance set in times of conflict. In 1951 some 1000 Waikato Miners went on strike to support their brothers in the Seaman's Union engaged in the 1951 Waterfront Lockout. times were tough and when the Government implemented harsh and he...

  • Girl Of Shadows

    Convict Girls - 2

  • The Silk Thief

    Convict Girls - 3

  • A Tattooed Heart

    Convict Girls - 4

  • Vietnam

    Here we are, fighting alongside the so-called mightiest nation on earth with all the firepower you could ask for-jets, B52s, tanks, gunships, arty, rockets, napalm, you name it-and the VC are creeping around with a rifle each and we still can't beat...

  • The Cloud Leopard's Daughter

    The Smuggler's Wife - 4

    A story of love, family, adventure and intrigue, set against backdrops of the gold rushes in Australia and New Zealand and the Opium Wars in China. When Kitty and Rian Farrell sail their schooner Katipo III into Dunedin Harbour in 1863, they are o...

  • From the Ashes

    The Restless Years - 1

    Four women. Three families. One decade of incredible change. Auckland,1956. Allie Manaia works at Smith and Caughey's department store. It's been two years since the Dunbar and Jones fire, where some of her friends perished, but she still h...

  • The Jacaranda House

    The Restless Years - 2

    Bestselling author Deborah Challinor returns with a spellbinding novel about a woman living in Sydney's notorious King's Cross in 1964.Polly Manaia is living in Sydney's notorious Kings Cross, working as an exotic dancer. She's desperate to bring her...

  • The Leonard Girls

    The Restless Years - 3

    Rowie's pro-war, her sister Jo's a protester. And they're both in Vietnam. The compelling new novel from the bestselling author of From the Ashes In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam war, nurse Rowie Leonard is serving a 12-month tour...

  • Black Silk and Sympathy

    Tatty Crowe - 1

    A dazzling new series from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor, exploring the fascinating world of Victorian funeral customs and featuring Sydney's first female undertaker.'Men have been undertakers for hundreds of years. Not wome...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Deborah Challinor has published 19 books.

Deborah Challinor does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Black Silk and Sympathy, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Deborah Challinor, Tamar, was published in January 2002.

Yes. Deborah Challinor has 5 series.
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