Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope was our Guest Editor in February 2012 - click here - to see the books that inspired her writing.

Joanna Trollope OBE has written numerous highly-acclaimed contemporary novels including: The Choir, A Village Affair, A Passionate Man, The Rector’s Wife, The Men and the Girls, A Spanish Lover, The Best of Friends, Next of Kin, Other People’s Children, Marrying the Mistress, Girl from the South, Brother and Sister, Second Honeymoon, Friday Night, The Other Family, Daughters-in-Law and The Soldier's Wife. Under the name of Caroline Harvey she writes romantic historical novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia’s Daughters.
 
Joanna Trollope was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to literature.

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If you like Joanna Trollope you might also like to read books by Louise Candlish, Amanda Brookfield and Elizabeth Buchan

The Soldier's Wife Joanna Trollope Can a man trained to fight adjust again to family and domestic life? And how will the family cope if he can't? Through the well observed, astute yet sensitive eye of the author this novel takes a keen look at... Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012 Lovereading Price: £14.24 - Saving £4.75 (25%)

Daughters-in-law Joanna Trollope January 2012 Book of the Month. Shortlisted for the Galaxy Popular Fiction Book of the Year Award 2011. Rachel has always been at the centre of her family of three sons but now the... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

Daughters-in-Law Joanna Trollope One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011. Shortlisted for the Galaxy Popular Fiction Book of the Year Award 2011. Rachel has always been at the centre of her family of three sons but now the youngest is getting... Format: Hardback - Released: 03/03/2011 Lovereading Price: £14.24 - Saving £4.75 (25%)

The Other Family Joanna Trollope Oh this is a tough one. Joanna certainly knows how to put her thumb on a bruise and continually push till it hurts. Why Richie never divorced his first wife to marry the mother of his three girls, his partner... Format: Paperback - Released: 09/12/2010 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

The Other Family Joanna Trollope Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 25 March 2010. A well constructed story and a fascinating host of characters make for another absorbing novel from one of the masters of family drama. When Richie Rossiter unexpectedly dies he leaves the... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/02/2010 Lovereading Price: £14.24 - Saving £4.75 (25%)

Second Honeymoon Joanna Trollope Yet another irrestible new novel from one of the UK's bestselling authors. Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, twenty-first-century style. The youngest of the family is, at last, leaving home. Needless to say family life is never straight... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2007 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

The Book Boy Joanna Trollope If you haven't yet discovered the brilliant Joanna Trollope then this is the perfect book to start with. On the surface Alice seems to have it all, healthy children, a husband a lovely house and a job. It appears she... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2006 Lovereading Price: £2.24 - Saving £0.75 (25%)

Second Honeymoon Joanna Trollope Yet another irrestible new novel from one of the UK's bestselling authors. Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, twenty-first-century style. The youngest of the family is, at last, leaving home. Needless to say family life is never straight... Format: Hardback - Released: 06/02/2006 Lovereading Price: £13.49 - Saving £4.50 (25%)

Brother and Sister Joanna Trollope A hugely popular author that has her finger right on the pulse of family relationships. In this novel she tackles adoption. Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2005 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)

A Village Affair Joanna Trollope To all intents and purposes this was Joanna’s first novel and it was the start of a genre labelled ‘aga saga’ – upper-middleclass country families getting into all sorts of messes. Joanna is queen of this type of novel and... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/1990 Lovereading Price: £5.99 - Saving £2.00 (25%)