Molly Cutpurse

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books
  • First Book:
    May 2006
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • A Life Lived

    This is an imaginary tale, best described as counterfactual. It originated from a true story: the Thompson and Bywaters affair, which scandalized England in the 1920s. As one steps into Edith’s unchallenged life, one sees what might have been. Had ...

  • Carry on Corsets

    Set in the classic time of 1972, this story is about a battle between the ancient and respectable company of corset makers owned by Sir Cyril Strumpet The Third and his arch enemy, Sidney Rabbit who sets up his own company Aphrodisiac, a place of swi...

  • A Year In Holloway

    1938. Mrs Miriam Baxter, an ordinary housewife and mother of two small children, committed a misdemeanour in the form of theft. Her punishment was to be imprisoned in the infamous woman's gaol, Holloway, House of Correction, North London. Placed with...

  • The Detective

    Hoping to emulate his hero, the great fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, Mr Gabriel Chukwumereije is an arrogant, wealthy sociopath from Ghana who arrives in London. His only problem is...it is 1960....

  • Edith Thompson-Executed

    Edith Thompson-Executed consists of two books: The Following Years is based on the true and tragic events, which occurred during 1922-1923 and ended in the deaths of two men and a woman. The Thompson and Bywaters Case. It is a semi-fictional stor...

  • The Tragic and Transgendered World of Margaret Allen

    The reason the transgendered man, Margaret 'Bill' Allen became a murderer has confounded criminologists. Since his execution at Strangeways Prison in January 1949 for the brutal murder of the eccentric Nancy Ellen Chadwick, sociologists (particularly...

  • Miriam's Family Life

    It is the summer of 1945, and Miriam and her extended family are weary but disciplined by war, and accustomed to austerity. Throughout this period, she deals with more deaths, ill health, moving house, rationing and accidents; all the while guiding h...

  • WaterLeigh Care Home

    Waterleigh Care Home is primarily about a young carer, Ms Erin Fylnn and, Sarah Graham, a new type of patient who is forced to take up permanent residence due to early onset dementia. Although Erin is regarded as one of the best carers in the home, s...

  • Miriam's Silver Years Part One

    Miriam's Silver Years (part one) is the fourth in a series of novels describing the life and family of Miriam Barker, née Baxter, a busy East London woman who was born in 1907. This edition deals with the years 1948 to 1955, a period when ration...



  • Miriam's Silver Years Part Two

    The fifth story about Miriam B takes place between the turbulent year of 1955 and the stimulating one of 1963. During this crucial time, a previously unknown family member shockingly makes himself known, she enjoys the holiday of a lifetime, the hub ...

  • Miriam's Golden Years

    Miriam's Golden Years takes us from 1963 until the nineteen nineties. A period when she bore the many deaths of her family and friends with dignity, but is more than pleased to welcome the beginning of her grandchildren, great grandchildren and great...

  • Supertranny

    Supertranny lives in the heart of a great nation. Born with unimaginable gifts, she lives in the hearts and souls of those she helps. She is imaginative, humorous and spectacularly beautiful. Moreover, she has a wardrobe to die for as well! An ordina...

  • The Angel From The Sea

    The Angel From The Sea is a supernatural story and describes the events which occur after an Edwardian young lady called Clara pleads for assistance against a member of her family who is brutal towards her. Whereupon, one of the oldest feminine force...

  • Dark Man

    When purity is not enough. North London 1936. Father Forrest is an inherently decent priest consumed by impure corporal thoughts. He has little possibility of ethical growth. When his secretary's young daughter dies, the tragedy stimulates a series o...

  • Miriam's Early Years

    Miriam's Early Years tells the beginnings of her Edwardian, East London family. From her welcome birth to her newly married parents in the summer of 1907, we follow her through her early childhood, her schooling, the Great War, and the births of her ...

  • The Christmas Eve Ghost

    A phantasmagorical ghost story. In Victorian London, two elderly spinster sisters who have not spoken to each other for fifty years because of a youthful tragedy, share a house that once belonged to their parents. The reason for their bitter feud rem...

  • Obsessions

    Obsessions is an irregular glimpse into the pennilessness life of Miss Hester Martin-Compter, the only child of a once wealthy banking family, destined by a deranged mind to live amongst the poverty of the Whitechapel area of London during the interw...

  • The Mystery of Bleak House

    In 1975, Mary Park, the only daughter of a wealthy and respected dynasty whose family accommodation is in Bloomsbury Square, London, is being driven beyond endurance by domestic and marital responsibilities, financial pressures and intellectual frust...

  • The Herb Girl

    The Herb Girl is a psychological novel set in and around Purfleet in Essex in 1923 and concerns the great divide; spiritualism, the complication that may be the after-life and our relationship with it. By way of a damning gypsy's curse, a Scots-born ...



  • Lies, Secrets and Infidelity.

    When a London private investigator arrives in Torquay in 1955, he allows people to believe that he is a tourist. Brought in privately to investigate the death of an elderly woman who was almost buried alive, one by one he exposes the sordid and compl...

  • Miriam's Presence at Christmas

    Miriam's Presence at Christmas covers the last days of 2009 at the old house that Miriam, Roy and Rafa used to own. It is now Christmas and Miriam's now middle-aged youngest daughter, Florence and her two adult daughters, Faith and Betty are preparin...

  • Escape

    Harry Whittle is a sixteen year old son of an emotionally frustrated butler working in London. He fails in his attempt to join the army in 1916 because of his age. As a punishment for his recklessness, Harry is sent to work on a wealthy estate in Dev...

  • Peter and April-A Miriam Story

    When Peter met April in the summer of 1946, his family speculated it was a match made in heaven. Therefore, when the couple married in 1953, Miriam Barker hoped that her son would keep their large family together in Stratford. But the circumstances a...

  • The House In Carter Lane

    A four part novel set in Clifton Buildings, Carter Lane near St Paul's cathedral. The landlord is a miserly and deliberately cruel money lender called, Mr Scrooge. Mr and Mrs Percy Radcliffe are an impoverished, newly married couple struggling to run...

  • The Soul in the Machine

    The future: The ability to map the human cortex neurone by neurone has been perfected by way of scanning. While people live, it is now possible to place a copy of a person's personality into data storage. A Similarity. The main reason is so the berea...

  • Miriam's Family Blitz

    On the 7 September 1940, the London Blitz began in ernest. This was when the Nazi Luftwaffe machine switched from daylight raids on military targets to heavy bomber raids at night focusing on large cities. Miriam's Family Blitz, already broadly conce...

  • Miriam's War

    Mrs Miriam Baxter, an ordinary London housewife apart from being an ex convict, is devoted entirely to her family, which consists of her two children, parents and three sisters. She would call herself unremarkable. However, it was her determination a...

  • Holloway, House of Correction

    Holloway, House of Correction is an alternative fantasy and documents the unlikely friendship between two women; Victoria, wealthy, beautiful and recently married, and the impoverished Margaret, the only surviving daughter of Victorian England's most...

  • Misplaced

    On a warm and late summer evening in 2015, after her boyfriend dumps her, Essex girl, Donna Rigg drunkenly smashes her car into a pillar box. She is taken to hospital where she is diagnosed with concussion. Over the next few weeks, her perception cha...



  • The Appearance of the Woman

    A fantasy grounded in reality. In 1963 when Miss Donna Lawson discovers an unconscious woman on a deserted stairwell at London's Fenchurch Street Station, she calls for help immediately, little realizing that the bizarrely dressed lady wearing late V...

  • Miriam's Last Year

    Miriam is now eighty-seven and after Roy's death, still lives in the large vicarage in Wanstead with Rafa alongside Rafa, Florence and her twin girls, Faith and Betty. It is now a time of reflection, the promise of a great, great grandchild, and long...

  • The Morrow Family of Newgate Street, 1939

    The last year of a lower class London family and friends living and working in Newgate Street before war engulfs them. There are funerals, affairs, deception, violence, and even a murder. And to those familiar with the Miriam series, there is a surpr...

  • Alien Queens 4

    Alien Queens 4 poses yet another problem for Stewart, Frankie, Anne B and Velvet's narrator, Miss (now Mrs) Molly Flaguline. For the escapade in which they find themselves, perplexes even the mature understanding of their original eighteenth century ...

  • The Morrow Family of Newgate Street, 1941.

    When the third year of war begins, Maud and her family are homeless and misplaced. Only Bert, an old friend of her dead husband has the ability to help them. Gradually Maud and her daughter begin to rebuild their lives taking on responsibility after ...

  • The Bitter Rose and the Thorn

    Lara Everett is a sensitive, childless widow of twenty years. She is settled, has buried her childhood dreams, is financially solvent and addicted to being alone. She would not call herself depressed, just unhappy. However, in her forty-third year, f...

  • The Morrow Family of Newgate Street, 1966

    In the eighth and final novel describing the Morrow family of Newgate Street, we find them twenty-one years later during 1966. The business is now being managed by Maggie and Anthony who do not have a great deal of hope for its long-term future due t...

  • The Angel of Death

    The Angel of Death is a bleak and fictional account of the United Kingdom's prison system. When terrorists commit an act of genocide resulting in the deaths of over eleven thousand Londoners, the Prime Minister, under pressure of intense social media...

  • Stronger than War

    In the late summer of 1972, Lawrence De Havilland, a successful and analytical surgeon discovers Miss Jennifer Compton-Hepburn, an attractive thirty-year-old, Leading Officer with the WRNS outside his house in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.Her mannerisms and ...

  • THEM

    Enter the unconventional middle class world of the Bailey family as they experience their lives against the backdrop of the queerest event ever to have occurred to the world. Gilbert is an enthusiastic rebuilder of antique motor cycles and a collecto...



  • The Children of Farthing Green

    Imagine the knock of leather on willow on a summer's afternoon; the call of an umpire, 'owzat!' Tea on the greenish of lawns; a white haze over the long spiky grass beneath the trees of a summer meadow; polished brass and a whiff of steam as an expre...

  • Alien Queens 6

    In Molly F's sixth description of her friend's unusual lives, there is treachery, betrayal, vindictiveness and all-round bad feelings. The combined strain of time-travelling over such a long period has finally burst causing unexpected and tragic cons...

  • Alien Queens 7

    Molly F, your essential chronicler from 1801 is not happy. By her own admittance she is what is known in literary circles as an unreliable narrator. But given the unorthodox, dangerous and interminable circumstances that had the possibility to turn a...

  • Bad Girl 2

    Angela Tenneb is now 42 and has spent 18 years in prison, one third of her time in solitary confinement. Now, in the year 2030, she is released on licence.Living with her widowed twin sister, Ann in Camden Town and having become religious, she is now...

  • Miss Wetherby's Path to Victory, 1943, 1944, 1945.

    There was no doubt that four years of war were finally taking its toil on Clementine and her family and friends. To the point that she, Jeremy and Aadhirai found themselves fatigued as many more demands were made on them.Although the once promised Na...

  • I was sent to 1968

    During the summer of 2021. Luna settled into complacency. She enjoys her job at the MusicRoom and shares Sophia's flat. However, her relationship with her parents has not thawed as they still refuse to believe her story.But, in November, Mr Quick vis...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Molly Cutpurse has published 45 books.

Molly Cutpurse does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, I was sent to 1968, was published in September 2022.

The first book by Molly Cutpurse, A Life Lived, was published in May 2006.

No. Molly Cutpurse does not write books in series.
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