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Hilary Bailey Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Black Corridor (1969)
  2. Polly Put the Kettle On (1975)
  3. Mrs. Mulvaney (1978)
  4. All the Days of My Life (1984)
  5. Hannie Richards (1985)
  6. Vera Brittain (1987)
  7. As Time Goes By (1988)
  8. A Stranger to Herself (1989)
  9. In Search of Love, Money and Revenge (1990)
  10. The Cry from Street to Street (1992)
  11. Cassandra (1993)
  12. Frankenstein’s Bride (1995)
  13. Miles and Flora (1997)
  14. Mrs Rochester (1997)
  15. Elizabeth and Lily (1997)
  16. After the Cabaret (1998)
  17. Connections (2000)
  18. The Autobiography of the Queen (2007)
  19. Fifty-first State (2008)
  20. The Strange Adventures of Charlotte Holmes (2012)
  21. Hitler’s Girls (2014)

Anthologies edited

  1. New Worlds 7 (1974)
  2. New Worlds 8 (1975)
  3. New Worlds 10 (1976)

Non fiction

  1. Diana (2008)
  2. Did We Meet On Grub Street? (2014)

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Hilary Bailey Books Overview

Frankenstein’s Bride

With Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein included two tales of terror in one! In this chilling sequel to Mary Shelley’s famous tale, Hilary Bailey imagines what might have happened if Frankenstein had created a female companion for his monster. The story begins in 1826 when a wealthy, young man by the name of Jonathan Goodall is introduced to Dr. Frankenstein, now living in London with a wife and small child. Jonathan soon becomes Frankenstein’s helper and friend but, when Frankenstein’s wife and child are brutally murdered, he becomes entangled in a horrific unfolding of events. Hilary Bailey’s gothic prose is constructed with uncanny fidelity to Shelley’s original style, as she describes the frightful consequences of Frankenstein’s tampering with the laws of nature. Also included is a foreword by the author that describes how Lord Byron and Mary Shelley each agreed to compete and write ‘a ghost story’ and why Shelley won. ‘In this chilling and intelligent sequel to the never forgotten story, Hilary Bailey imagines what might have happened if Frankenstein had made a woman, a bride, for his male creature. Bailey plays on the fear of the monstrous, compassionless woman and also plays with it…
Icy, atmospheric and riveting.’ Observer, UK national Sunday newspaper ‘Icily convincing…
Hilary bailey lets the implications of a new story look after themselves. Without fashionable recourse to the erotic or the feminist, she is mistress of the melodrama’ Mail on Sunday, UK national Sunday newspaper ‘Frankenstein’s Bride makes Frankenstein’s monster look like a pus*sycat.’ Sunday Times, UK national Sunday newspaper

The Autobiography of the Queen

Queen Elizabeth has gone AWOL from Balmoral and no one can find her. Where has she gone and why? This winsome, if unlikely, account of the Queen’s disappearance, recounts the monarch’s solo journey to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, to take possession of her recently purchased home in the idyllic sounding Joli Estate. Here, after more than half a century on the throne, she will recall the years of her reign in peace and tranquility, in the guise of her new identity as Gloria Smith. But the house is no more than a muddy hole in the ground, and the Queen must punt. She is not used to asking for anything, carrying cash, fending for herself, introducing herself, or being ignored. The story of the sovereign’s sojourn in her former colony is a funny and touching account of the sometimes contentious and occasionally baffling friendship between Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and a scruffy young St. Lucian, Austin Ford. How this radical change of life and circumstance affects the Queen and how she changes as a result make for a hilarious and moving tale, in which her need for her subjects is as marked as their dependence on her staying on the throne.

Fifty-first State

A political thriller from a popular author 2013. Britain is in chaos. Following a severe recession and a succession of short lived hung parliaments, an election is called. Lord Gott, Treasurer of the Conservative Party, receives large sums of money from supposedly legitimate sources, which helps secure a majority. But someone took payments as a bribe to secure victory, and that someone might have won the most powerful position in Britain. Gott steps in to investigate…

Diana

What happens when a person returns, unrecognized, to place and situation they left long ago? Will some see a ghost, or perhaps a threat? Can the past be altered, or the future changed? When Prince Harry arrives at Balmoral to convalesce after a bungee jumping accident in Bali, he is accompanied by Sister Julia, a plain looking nurse who dotes on her charge. Julia’s behavior provokes instant dislike and suspicion in two senior royal servants, the formidable housekeeper Janet McDuff and Prince Charles’s equerry David Baron. Julia seems to know her way around the castle when she first arrives, and the famous corgis tumble at her feet in a loving pack. Furthermore, she greets Prince William as if she has known him all his life. When a sapphire engagement ring, recently bestowed on Camilla, is discovered under Prince Harry s bed, Julia acts as though she recognizes it. The arrival of an unscheduled visitor at the Queen’s wild boar sausage barbecue tests Her Majesty’s royal composure, and Julia is accused of spying on Charles and Camilla. This witty and sympathetic account of Sister Julia s experiences among the castle s frosty inhabitants provides merriment and insight.

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