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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1982
  • Latest Book:
    September 2015
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About the Author

Janey King, née Morris was born on 1947 in Denbigh, Wales, and also grew up in North Wales. She read English at Oxford, and after a spell in journalism and publishing began writing fiction after the birth of her first child. Published since 1982 as Rosie Thomas, she has written fourteen best-selling novels, deal with the common themes of love and loss. She is one of only a few authors to have won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association, in 1985 with Sunrise, and in 2007 with Iris and Ruby.

Janey is an adventurer and once she was established as a writer and her children were grown, she discovered a love of travelling and mountaineering. She has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, spent time on a tiny Bulgarian research station in Antarctica and travelled the silk road through Asia. She currently lives in London.

Book List in Order: 24 titles



  • Reedited as: Love's Choice. For Bell Farrer, rising wine journalist, it was the break of her career. To interview both reclusive Baron Charles de Gillesmont of Château Reynard in Bordeaux and business genius Valentine Gordon of California's Dry S...



  • Original title: Celebration. For Bell Farrer, rising wine journalist, it was the break of her career. To interview both reclusive Baron Charles de Gillesmont of Château Reynard in Bordeaux and business genius Valentine Gordon of California's Dry ...



  • Three women share a lifetime of emotion in one year. Helen, Chloe and Pansy came up to Oxford University in the 1970s full of hopes and dreams. For a year they share a special friendship, but the men in their lives change them forever....



  • HER FATHER... HER LOVER... HER SON... THEIR LIVES WERE UTTERLY TANGLED.... Angharad Owain and Harry Cotton knew a rare happiness in each others arms. She was poor and innocent--a Welsh girl who had always obeyed her family. He was wealthy and wo...



  • From England torn by class strife to Europe chilled by the winds of Fascism, from the gilded decadence of 1930s Paris to battlefields of the Spanish Civil War. THE WHITE DOVE sweeps across a dramatic canvas -- and into the lives of people you will n...





  • This suspense-filled collection includes Mary Higgins Clark's "Lucky Day," Whitley Strieber's "Vaudeville," Dorothy Salisbury Davis' "Till Death Do Us Part," and Thomas Chastain's "Directed Verdict."...



  • Julia and Mattie, best friends who run away from their parents in 1950s London, achieve varying degrees of success in their careers during the next thirty years, but both are troubled by a vague sense of unhappiness...



  • A woman who dreams of everything and more... a woman who wants to have it all... But Harriet Peacock has everything. What more could she possibly want? She has come a long way. From small shopkeeper and betrayed wife, she has made herself the Cit...






  • Jake, Clio and Julius Hirsh and their cousin Lady Grace Stretton formed a charmed circle in those lost innocent days before the Great War - united against the world. Old now, Clio recounts their story for her biographer: Jake's wartime experiences, w...



  • The Wages of Love and Betrayal Newly widowed and still young, beautiful Nina Cort aches from the lingering pain of her loss. Her broken heart has brought her back home to Grafton--and into a close- knit circle of five affluent, seemingly happily m...



  • Dinah Steward seems to have everything she could ever want: a successful husband who loves her, two happy sons, and a beautiful house in Franklin, Massachusetts; she knows it's ridiculous to feel homesick for England. But Dinah has a secret hidden in...



  • Jess loses her son Danny in a road accident. Deserted by her husband and distanced from her daughter, she finds that the only person who can comfort her is the car driver, Danny's friend. They begin an affair, to the horror and confusion of the rest ...





  • On the coast of Maine, five old houses are visited every summer by the same group of families. When 14-year-old May Duhane arrives for her summer vacation, following the death of her mother, and at the point of estrangement from her father and sister...



  • Olivia Giorgiadis has left her English roots behind. She lives on a tiny Greek island, married to a local man, mother to two small sons. Year on year, island life has followed a peaceful unchanging rhythm. Until now. An earthquake ravages the coast, ...



  • From a bestselling women’s fiction author, an “absorbing” novel about a divorced single mother struggling to forgive her estranged father before he dies. (The Daily Mail)   “Master storyteller” (Cosmopolitan) Rosie Thomas returns with ...



  • The acclaimed author of Bad Girls, Good Women delivers an epic and adventurous love story set against the stunning backdrop of Antarctica.   Alice Peel is a geologist. She believes in observation, measurement, and proof. But now, as she stands a...



  • Rich and alive with descriptions of the bustling streets of old Cairo, and the vast, foreboding desert surrounding it - "Iris and Ruby" is a stirring story of mothers, daughters and the distance between three generations of one family. Stiflingly qui...






  • Constance has made a new life for herself in a foreign land. She is a musician, a composer, a highly paid arranger of other people's music, living in a lively expatriate community in Bali. There the world is idyllic - beautiful beaches framed with lu...



  • A group of old friends reunited to start a new stage of their lives. Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. Reviving a university dream, she invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to...



  • It is 1941 and World War II has engulfed the globe. Newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales for the first time in her life, to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India. When her husband leaves her in the exotic lakeside city of Srinag...



  • London 1870. A terrifying place for a young, beautiful woman of limited means. But Eliza is modern before her time. Not for her the stifling if respectable conventionality of marriage, children, domestic drudgery. She longs for more. Through her w...



  • In Daughter of the House, Rosie Thomas, "a master storyteller" (Cosmopolitan) returns to the marvelous Wix family. Nancy Wix, daughter of the stage impresarios Eliza and Devil, must find a way to keep London’s Palmyra theatre afloat, and to ente...


Award-Winning Books by Rosie Thomas

Iris and Ruby
2007 RoNA -- Romantic Novel of the Year
The Kashmir Shawl
2012 RoNA -- Epic Romance
Sunrise
1985 RoNA -- Romantic Novel of the Year


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rosie Thomas has published 24 books.

Rosie Thomas does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Daughter of the House, was published in September 2015.

The first book by Rosie Thomas, Love's Choice, was published in April 1982.

No. Rosie Thomas does not write books in series.