Rosamunde Pilcher Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Brown Fields (As:Jane Fraser) (1951)
  2. Dangerous Intruder (As:Jane Fraser) (1951)
  3. Young Bar (As: Jane Fraser) (1952)
  4. A Day Like Spring (As:Jane Fraser) (1953)
  5. Dear Tom (As:Jane Fraser) (1954)
  6. A Secret to Tell (1955)
  7. Bridge of Corvie (As:Jane Fraser) (1956)
  8. A Family Affair (As:Jane Fraser) (1958)
  9. A Long Way from Home (As:Jane Fraser) (1963)
  10. The Keeper’s House (As:Jane Fraser) (1963)
  11. On My Own (1965)
  12. Sleeping Tiger (1967)
  13. Another View (1969)
  14. The End of Summer (1971)
  15. Snow in April (1972)
  16. The Empty House (1973)
  17. The Day of the Storm (1975)
  18. Under Gemini (1976)
  19. Wild Mountain Thyme (1979)
  20. The Carousel (1982)
  21. Voices in Summer (1984)
  22. The Shell Seekers (1987)
  23. September (1990)
  24. Coming Home (1995)
  25. Winter Solstice (2000)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Key (1996)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Blue Bedroom and Other Stories (1985)
  2. Flowers in the Rain and Other Stories (1991)
  3. The World of Rosamunde Pilcher (1995)
  4. Christmas with Rosamunde Pilcher (1997)
  5. A Place Like Home (2021)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Love Stories (1990)

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Rosamunde Pilcher Books Overview

Sleeping Tiger

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people’s lives and loves, tenderly laid open for us…
Whenever Selina asked about her late father, the grandmother who raised her changed the subject. The chance discovery of a photograph gave Selina hope that he was still alive and sent her searching for him on a small Spanish island. In this lush paradise, Selina found George Dyer, a writer who would help her solve the mystery of her past…
and might hold the key to her future.

Another View

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people’s lives and loves, tenderly laid open for us…
There were only two men in Emma’s life her father, a remote artist who left her in boarding school and saw her every few years, and Christo, who had been her stepbrother for a few months, and now wanted to get to know her. But until Emma can understand what she means to them, there will never be room for love.

The End of Summer

Sitting on a California beach at summer’s ends, Jane Marsh thought back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie in a remote corner of Scotland. She remembered not only the heather covered hills and lonesome loch, but her grandmother…
and, of course, Sinclair. She had secretly dreamed of marrying rakishly handsome Sinclair and settling at Elvie forever. Now an urgent visit from her grandmother’s lawyer would become the catalyst for her return to Scotland…
where waiting for her was passion, not gentle love, and the chilling realization that she might be ready to wed the wrong man. ‘When you’ve finished one of Rosamunde Pilcher’s novels , you’re ready for another’. ‘The New York Times’.’Ms. Pilcher knows all the aspects of the human spirit, how it behaves in joy and sorrow’. Marilyn Harris, author of ‘American Eden’

Snow in April

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people’s lives and loves, tenderly laid open for us…
Caroline travels to Scotland, hoping to make contact with a brother she hasn’t seen for years, and return in time for her wedding to the man her strong willed stepmother thought so suitable. Then a sudden snow strands her in an isolated house with a young man recovering from tragedy. Both are on the brink of terrible mistakes, but perhaps they can save each other.

The Empty House

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people’s lives and loves, tenderly laid open for us…
At twenty seven, Virginia Keile had been through the most intense experiences life had to offer a magical first love ending in heartbreak, a suitable marriage, motherhood, and widowhood. All she wanted now was to take her daughter and son to a seaside cottage and help them recover. But Virginia’s true love was there, waiting, hoping, praying that this time she would be strong enough to seize happiness.

The Day of the Storm

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people’s lives and loves, tenderly laid open for us…
On the last day of her mother’s life, Rebecca learns she has a family in Cornwall, and sets out to find the grandfather and cousin she has never known. But only the enigmatic Joss Gardner, the outsider who seems to be the apple of her grandfather’s eye, can help her understand the dark currents that lie behind her family’s loving reception.

Under Gemini

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people’s lives and loves, tenderly laid open for us…
It deemed such an innocent deception. All Flora Waring had to do was play the part of Rose, her long lost twin, for one weekend and meet the family of Rose’s fiance. But when Flora is introduced to the Armstrong family, she realizes that she has inherited the secret scandal Rose created five years before…
and left wounds that turn the man Flora loves against her.

Wild Mountain Thyme

When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people’s lives and loves, tenderly laid open for us…

Oliver Dobbs was a writer first, and a man second. To him other people were tools. Even though he had broken Victoria Bradshaw’s heart once, when he arrived on her doorstep with a two year old son, she found she could not refuse him, and the three of them set out for a castle in Scotland. There, Victoria meets the new laird and finds her crushed spirit awakening.

The Carousel

The Carousel Prue is intelligent, artistic, independent and bored. Pressurized by her mother to make a conventional and dull marriage, she is delighted to escape London and seek retreat with her eccentric and bohemian aunt in Cornwall. A chance encounter with an attractive young artist on the sea shore leads to day after idyllic summer’s day of exploring the Cornish countryside and coast. But there is something troubling Daniel and Prue, now deeply entangled, feels compelled to discover what it is. Voices in Summer Laura, newly married and ever conscious of the shadow of her husband Alec’s first wife, takes a holiday with his family in Cornwall. Through the long, hot summer days she is charmed by the beautiful old house and the people she learns to know and love. The sight of the sparkling, brilliant sea quiets for a while her uneasy spirit. Only an anonymous letter, accusing her of having an affair, can threaten her new found tranquillity.

Voices in Summer

Celebrate life’s journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love have touched the world. As in her worldwide bestseller The Shell Seekers and September, it is the richness of emotional seasons that has made Rosamunde Pilcher’s novels beloved the world over. Now she invites you into long summer days on the coast of Cornwall and into the stormy heart of newlywed Laura Haverstock. Shy, recovering from illness, and away from her husband, Laura’s is a fearful heart on the verge of intimate discoveries…
about herself, her family, and the source of true love within her. Voices in Summer speaks gently to the heart, in a voice that is Rosamunde Pilcher at her storytelling best.

The Shell Seekers

1 New York Times Bestseller’The Shell Seekers is a deeply satisfying story, written with love and confidence.’ Maeve Binchy, The New York Times Book ReviewThe Shell Seekers, the classic novel by acclaimed writer Rosamunde Pilcher, is now available in hardcover once more. This epic romance has sold over 3.5 million copies to date; her other bestsellers include Winter Solstice, Wild Mountain Thyme, and Coming Home. Set in London and Cornwall from World War II to present, The Shell Seekers tells the story of the Keeling family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. The family centers around Penelope, and it is her love, courage, and sense of values that determine the course of all their lives, Deftly shifting back and forth in time, each chapter centers on one of the principal players in the family’s history. the unifying thread is an oil painting entitled ‘The Shell Seekers,’ done by Penelope’s father. It is this painting that symbolizes to Penelope the ties between the generations. But it is the fate of this painting that just may tear the family apart.

September

A place you will never forgetRosemunde Pilcher’s Scotland…
where the fields flourish with greenery, the bills bloom with purple, and the lochs glitter with the bright blue of the sky.A time you will never forgetSeptember
when the heather is in full flower, the first chill of autumn cools the air, and the countryside stirs with the hunt b alls, dinner parties, and dance.A novel you will never forgetRosamunde Pilcher’s September
a story of homecomings and heartbreaks, friendships, betrayls, forgiveness, and love. From the author of the classic multimillion copy bestseller The Shell Seeker, it is a book you will fall in love with…
A main selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club

Coming Home

One of the most beloved storytellers of our time, Rosamund Pilcher first achieved international recognition with The Shell Seekers. Then came September, brim*ming with memorable characters, people we cared about, cherished and loved. These two remarkable stories have become modern classics around the world. Now, after five years in the writing, Coming Home is the tale Rosamund Pilcher believes to be the capstone of a lifetime of writing. Her most ambitious and compelling work yet, Coming Home is a vast canvas, and a vividly drawn portrait of an era close to us in time, yet now disappeared. Like The Shell Seekers, Coming Home is an intensely personal story. Like September, it teems with marvelous, memorable characters. Coming Home is a story to be savored, an old fashioned tale hardly anyone knows how to tell anymore. In telling the story of Judith Dunbar and her loved ones, Rosamunde Pilcher decribes each family member with warmth, wisdom and clear eyed insight. Coming Home is ia totally involving story of a young woman’s coming of age, coming to terms with both love and sadness, and, in every sense of the word, Coming Home.

Winter Solstice

In Winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different people…
. Elfrida Phipps, once of London’s stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name still she finds herself lonely. Oscar Blundell gave up his life as a musician in order to marry Gloria. They have a beautiful daughter, Francesca, and it is only because of their little girl that Oscar views his sacrificed career as worthwhile. Carrie returns from Australia at the end of an ill fated affair with a married man to find her mother and aunt sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. With Christmas approaching, Carrie agrees to look after her aunt’s awkward and quiet teenage daughter, Lucy, so that her mother might enjoy a romantic fling in America. Sam Howard is trying to pull his life back together after his wife has left him for another. He is without home and without roots, all he has is his job. Business takes him to northern Scotland, where he falls in love with the lush, craggy landscape and set his sights on a house. It is the strange rippling effects of a tragedy that will bring these five characters together in a large, neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan. It is in this house, on the shortest day of the year, that the lives of five people will come together and be forever changed. Rosamunde Pilcher’s long awaited return to the page will warm the hearts of readers both old and new. Winter Solstice is a novel of love, loyalty and rebirth.

The Blue Bedroom and Other Stories

The big bedroom was lovely: all pale, blue and white, satin and muslin, cool and airy, the windows looking out over the garden to the creek. But to fourteen year old Emily, beautiful though it was, it was all wrong. Her stepmother’s bedroom now: everything changed since her own mother had died. And stretched out on the bed: Stephanie, very white and pained. The new baby on its way, a month early. All of a sudden, with her father away on business, Emily had to take charge, keep calm, ring for the doctor and the ambulance. The time for looking back had gone. The Blue Bedroom is just one of Rosamunde Pilcher’s magical collection of stories. Stories that will enchant everyone who has read and loved The Shell Seekers.

Flowers in the Rain and Other Stories

Through thick mist and a cold east wind, Lavinia returns to Scotland. Up at the big house Mrs Farquhar is dying. Seeing Lachlan again,. Lavinia remembers her childhood holidays there: swimming in the loch, the picnics, bottle feeding the lambs down at the farm and the evenings when they danced reels. Most of all, she remembers Mrs Farquhar’s grandson Rory. In the house, as the old lady lies serene and beautiful in the bed she has slept in since coming home to Lachlan as a bride, Lavinia meets Rory once again. Flowers in the Rain is one of sixteen stories, each giving another magical glimpse into Rosamunde Pilcher’s world. The world in which most prefer to live all the time.

The World of Rosamunde Pilcher

A richly illustrated and intimate look at the life and world of the beloved author of ‘The Shell Seekers’. Featuring an Introduction by the author, snapshots from her family albums, recipes from her own kitchen, and excerpts from her unforgettable novels and short stories, ‘The World of Rosamunde Pilcher‘ is certain to be treasured by her millions of fans. Full color.

Christmas with Rosamunde Pilcher

Rosamunde Pilcher, the beloved author of The Shell Seekers and Coming Home, invites you to share the magic of the Christmas season with her and her family as they celebrate the holiday in timeless Scottish tradition. From the quiet preparations of writing her holiday greetings to the sweet smells rising from her kitchen as she bakes the cakes and cookies her children and grandchildren look forward to year after year, the entire family joins in to prepare the home for the arrival of friends. Share in the Pilcher family’s laughter and joy through the season as they tell stories, play in the snow, sing carols, and simply enjoy being in each other’s company. This handsome book is filled with photographs of the Pilchers as they celebrate the holiday wrapping gifts, decorating the tree, savoring a fine Christmas dinner. There are also stunning images of Scotland in all of its delicate December beauty. Rosamunde Pilcher reminisces about an unexpectedly special Christmas celebration and shares other bits of Pilcher holiday lore, as well as their favorite Christmas carols. Inside, you will find Rosamunde Pilcher’s charming holiday story ‘Miss Cameron at Christmas.’ She also shares her holiday recipes for scones, shortbread, roast turkey, Christmas pudding, chestnut stuffing, and many more Pilcher family favorites. Christmas with Rosamunde Pilcher is a lovely gift. You’ll find her home during the Christmas season as warm and inviting as her novels.

Love Stories

The world has as many Love Stories as it has beating hearts. Now you can experience the power of ageless love in this engaging collection of beautifully crafted and atmospheric stories…
A lazy summer on the Cornish coast changeds Rosamunde Philcher’s ‘Lalla’ from girl to woman. Catherine Cookson’s ‘Miss Geraldine Parkington’ bids a bold farewell to a long life of loneliess and lovelessness. John Updike’s ‘A Constellation of Events’ watches the first glimmer of adultry become a never to be forgotten starburst.A runaway rabbit plays Cupid for a leggy redheaded secretary in Jully Cooper’s delightfully quirky ‘The Square Peg.”Kiss Me Again, Strager,’ says Daphne du Maurier’s sleepy eyed sired when a young man follows her home on a dark London evening. For romantics everywhere, a bouquet of fiery passions and lingering sweetness.

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