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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1996
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Maitland Trilogy

1 - The Poppy Girls (Feb-2018)
2 - The Brooklands Girls (Feb-2019)
3 - The Spitfire Sisters (Feb-2020)

Book List in Order: 44 titles



  • The second part of the Fleethaven Trilogy, Sow the Seed is a moving and evocative wartime saga from Margaret Dickinson. Lincolnshire, 1926. Kate Hilton is devastated when her mother tells her she is to be sent away to boarding school. For the more...





  • At a time when the local landowners are planning to destroy the last vestiges of the villagers' independence by enclosure of the common land, Sarah falls in love with the squire's son. Previously published as Sarah, this book is the first volume in t...



  • Adelina Cole has grown up knowing little of her parents' history before they eloped to New York in 1795. Now, twenty years later, orphaned and alone she determines to escape from the scandal and disgrace her father sunk to before his violent death, a...



  • For Evan Smithson, the illegitimate son of Guy Trent, the years have served only to sharpen his desire for vengeance against his father's family. Consumed by his cold fury, he leaves many of his daughter Carrie's questions unanswered. But the grudge ...



  • It is 1914, and Eveleen Hardcastle, now in in her early thirties, has married Richard. As the First World War breaks out, Eveleen, a sophisticated young woman, is left to manage the factory while Richard goes off to fight for his country. Eveleen's m...



  • A young girl stands alone in the cobbled market place of a small Lincolnshire town, bedraggled, soaked through and very afraid. Who is she? Where has she come from and from whom is she running away? No one knows or cares. Only kindly farmer, Eddie Ap...




  • Kathy Burton has had a tough life on the family farm in Lincolnshire, not least because her father is determined that she will marry a local boy whom she doesn't care for. Her escape takes her to the city of Lincoln where she starts work in a glamo...






  • Charlotte is an only child, reared by a brutal father who cannot forgive her for not being the son he desires. Loved by most that she meets, Charlotte has a gift for friendship, and it is her work as a Sunday School teacher that gives her hope - and ...



  • Book Description Is it possible for a ten-year-old girl to fall in love? Jenny Mercer thought so. Evacuated to Lincolnshire from the East End of London at the outbreak of war, she is frightened of the wide open spaces and the huge skies. At first, sh...





  • A compelling saga from Margaret Dickinson, Fairfield Hall charts the changing fortunes of Annabel Constantine, in the devastating lead up to the First World War.

    Ruthlessly ambitious Ambrose Constantine is determined that his daughter, Annab...



  • Christmas Fireside Stories is a delightful festive collection of short stories that includes delicious Christmas recipes recommended by the authors as well as extracts from your favourite saga novels.Christmas at Briar Farm by Diane AllenChristmas pr...




  • Following the disastrous floods of 1953, Ella Hilton is compelled to live at Brumbys' Farm with her grandmother, Esther, and is soon acutely aware of the mysterious surrounding her family's past. As Ella grows up and falls in love herself, the story...



  • There are some things which even the closest friendship cannot survive . . .

    Welcome Home is an enthralling and moving drama from bestselling author Margaret Dickinson, set during the Second World War.

    Neighbours Edie Kelsey and Lil H...



  • 1919 in Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire. The Ryan family are adjusting to life in the aftermath of the First World War. Walter has returned home a broken man and so it falls to his son Josh and daughter Emily to do their best to keep their family bu...



  • When Florrie Maltby defies her father by refusing to marry Gervase Richards, she sets off a chain of events that will alter her life. Instead she goes to London and becomes involved with the suffragette movement. She's imprisoned for her militant act...






  • A sequel to ''Queen of Saga'' Margaret Dickinson''s bestselling The Buffer GirlsEmily Ryan has gone up in the world since her arrival in Sheffield. Brought there by her mother''s ambitious schemes for her brother, Josh, she had found work as a bu...



  • The Poppy Girls is the first title in The Maitland Trilogy, by bestselling author Margaret Dickinson. Even amidst the horror of the trenches, friendship will survive Thwarted in her desire to become a doctor like her brother Robert, Pips Maitlan...



  • The second heartfelt novel in the Maitland Trilogy, following The Poppy Girls, by bestselling author Margaret Dickinson.In the early 1920s, the Maitland family are still coming to terms with the aftermath of the Great War. After her courageous work...



  • Family and friendship mean everything under the darkening skies of wartime Britain. The Spitfire Sisters is the third book in Margaret Dickinson's moving Maitland trilogy.It is the 1930s and the Maitland family have spent the years following the Grea...



  • In Secrets at Bletchley Park by Margaret Dickinson, two young women from very different backgrounds meet in the Second World War and are plunged into a life where security and discretion are paramount. But both have secrets of their own to hide . . ....








  • Wartime Friends is a tale of unbreakable bonds in times of strife, by bestselling author of The Poacher's Daughter, Margaret Dickinson.It is 1940s coastal Lincolnshire and Carolyn Holmes is keen to do what she can for the war effort. Raised on the fa...



  • A poacher's daughter meets the heir to a country estate â€" as their destinies intertwine, their lives will never be the same. The Poacher's Daughter is a story of love and fate from bestselling historical saga author Margaret Dickinson.It is 1910 in...






  • A Mother's Sorrow is a heart-rending family drama set around WW1 from bestselling author and Queen of the Saga, Margaret Dickinson.Three young women. Two families united. A bond that can’t be broken . . .Sheffield, 1892. Patrick Halliday rules his ...



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    At the beginning of the twentieth century a lady doctor was often treated with mistrust. When Doctor Katharine Harvey goes to the village of Brackenbeck to take over Doctor Anthony Stafford's practice, she finds that the villagers resent her presence...



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    Polly Longden's china-doll looks belie a strong and fiery personality. When typhoid strikes her home city of Lincoln, she needs every ounce of that strength in order to cope. With the death of her mother, thirteen-year-old Polly has to give up her am...



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    Harry Forrest was desperate to have a son to take over his thriving Lincolnshire mill, but Emma is his only child. Forced by her father into a loveless marriage with a gambler, Emma is determined that one day she will prove to her father that she ...



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    Hannah Francis has been forced to leave her beloved mother and the life she knows in Macclesfield to become an apprentice at a cotton mill in the Derbyshire dales. I's a cruel blow for such a young girl, but she is determined to be cheerful for the s...



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    Lincolnshire, 1910. Shunned by her own family, desperate for work a place to stay, Esther Everatt walks through the night to Sam Brumby's farm, seeking the chance to earn her keep. Reluctantly, the old man takes her on. Able to work alongside any man...







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    For twelve-year-old Mary Ann Clark, life has always been tough. The pretty daughter of a wife-beating drunk, it is no surprise that she has grown up afraid of her own shadow. That is until 'Battling Bessie Ruddick' takes the young girl under her wing...



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    For Eveleen Hardcastle life gets no better than growing up on Pear Tree Farm in the Lincolnshire countryside. Her family works hard for the Dunsmore estate and Eveleen finds it impossible to resist the charms of their employer's son, Stephen Dunsmore...



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    Abandoned outside an orphange as a newborn baby, spirited Maddie March has had to fight her way through life. So when she finds a home at Few Farm with Frank Brackenbury and his household, she welcomes the chance for a fresh start.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Margaret Dickinson has published 44 books.

The next book by Margaret Dickinson, A Mother's Sorrow, will be published in May 2024.

The first book by Margaret Dickinson, Sow the Seed, was published in November 1996.

Yes. Margaret Dickinson has 1 series.