Leslie Thomas Books In Order

Virgin Soldiers Books In Order

The Virgin Soldiers (1966)
Onward Virgin Soldiers (1971)
Stand Up Virgin Soldiers (1975)

Dangerous Davies Books In Order

Dangerous Davies (1976)
Dangerous in Love (1987)
Dangerous By Moonlight (1993)
Dangerous Davies and the Lonely Heart (1998)

Novels

Orange Wednesday (1967)
The Love Beach (1968)
Come to the War (1969)
Arthur McCann and All His Women (1970)
His Lordship (1970)
The Man with the Power (1973)
Bedtimes (1974)
Tropic of Ruislip (1974)
Bare Nell (1977)
Midnight clear (1977)
Ormerod’s Landing (1978)
That Old Gang of Mine (1979)
The Magic Army (1981)
The Dearest and the Best (1984)
The Adventures of Goodnight and Loving (1986)
Orders for New York (1989)
The Loves and Journeys of Revolving Jones (1991)
Arrivals and Departures (1992)
Running Away (1994)
Kensington Heights (1996)
Chloe’s Song (1997)
Other Times (1999)
Waiting for the Day (2003)
Dover Beach (2005)
Soldiers and Lovers (2007)

Omnibus

Tropic of Ruislip / Dangerous Davies / Bare Nell / That Old Gang of Mine (1988)

Non fiction

This Time Next Week (1964)
Some Lovely Islands (1971)
The Hidden Places of Britain (1981)
A World of Islands (1983)
In My Wildest Dreams (2006)
Almost Heaven (2010)
My World Of Islands (2011)

Virgin Soldiers Book Covers

Dangerous Davies Book Covers

Novels Book Covers

Omnibus Book Covers

Tropic of Ruislip / Dangerous Davies / Bare Nell / That Old Gang of Mine
(1988)

Non fiction Book Covers

Leslie Thomas Books Overview

Dangerous Davies

When his latest case leads him to the unsolved murder of 17 year old Celia Norris, this is Davies’s chance to prove his mettle.

A walk through Kensal Green Cemetery, a meat pie in the greasy spoon, a weekend away complete with flannel pyjamas Dangerous Davies knows how to treat the woman he loves. Detective Constable Davies has two things on his mind: Jemma Duval, the beautiful, black, hymn singing social worker, and ‘Lofty’ Brock, the harmless old eccentric who drowned in the canal. To prove that Lofty’s death was no accident, our hero sets out to do some undercover detective work. He soon discovers that something sinister is going on. Something that requires intuition, dedication, brilliant deduction and a timely blow with a blunt instrument. A001 0099474239

Orange Wednesday

Orange Wednesday is a comic thriller set in the late 1960s

Ormerod’s Landing

Historians of the Second World War have hitherto omitted to mention that the first British raid on German occupied France took place within four months of Dunkirk. It happened at midnight on September 21st, 1940, the landing being made at the small fishing town of Granville, in Normandy. The landing party consisted of a detective sergeant of the Metropolitan Police V Division, a young French woman schoolteacher and an ugly mongrel dog named Formidable. They were considerately brought ashore by the Germans themselves. George Ormerod was the detective sergeant in question, not the most imaginative of policemen, but, true to his name, most resolute in his investigations. An ormer is a notably tenacious shell fish of the English Channel. While the war is being lost all around him, Ormerod remains obsessed with the mundane murder of a young woman in Wandsworth, even pursuing his investigations amongst the returning and bewildered troops. How the investigation blazed a savage trail through rural Normandy and led to Na*zi occupied Paris, and how Marie Th r se Velin and her often ruthless Resistance allies become involved with George Ormerod are questions Leslie Thomas answers as his tale unfolds. In Ormerod’s Landing, an exciting and ironic tale of Britain and France in the early years of the war, he once again creates a tender, farcical world in which his unique humour and irony flourish.

The Magic Army

Compared to the famously fecund rabbit, for whom a single act of coitus has a 90 chance of creating a litter of up to 12 rabbits, humans are very infertile animals. Here in the UK, the average chance of conception is about 18 per month. And in 98 of cases, successful conception leads only to the birth of a single infant. It is unsurprising then that huge efforts have been made to increase our fertility. In vitro fertilisation, first attempted one hundred years ago, has now become big business. Market forces, combined with the desperation of many couples to fulfil their biological imperative, have pushed doctors and scientists closer to the boundaries of what is desirable or ethical. And as we are increasingly able to access and control the embryo, the opportunities of altering human genetics to eradicate disease, but also to change human characteristics, becomes a real, and to some, frightening possibility.A Child Against All Odds is a ground breaking book for Robert Winston as it falls squarely in his area of expertise. It combines his work at Hammersmith Hospital as one of the country’s leading fertility specialists, with a hard hitting, sometimes humorous, often controversial look at the scientific, social and ethical background of man’s struggle to discover and control the secrets of reproduction. Drawing on personal and professional experience, it is the definitive account of modern reproductive technology from a practitioner who has spent his professional life at the forefront of this most fascinating and emotive area of science.

The Dearest and the Best

In the spring of 1940, the spectre of war turned into a grim reality. On the English home front, men, women and children found themselves swept into a maelstrom of fear and uncertainty. For the Lovatt family it was the beginning of the most bizarre, funny and tragic episode of their lives.

Arrivals and Departures

Edward Richardson, manager to one of Heathrow’s airlines, lives in the sleepy English village of Bedmansworth, but jets around the world faster than his marriage can tolerate. And when Mrs. Pearl Collingwood and her recently divorced daughter fly in from L.A. and stop over in the little village, they exert an unforseeable effect on more than one person’s life. Available in October.

Chloe’s Song

This is the new tale of love and life, rich with humour and pathos, from our best loved storyteller. From the prison cell where Chloe Smith, 43, is awaiting trial for the merciful murder of the only man who ever loved her with honesty, she recalls the men in her life who lied to her. She remembers her adored father, who drank too much; the loss of her virginity at Stonehenge to a schoolboy, her marriage to petty crook Zane Tomkins, the Isle of Wight ferryman who said he was a lonely deep sea sailor, the young priest who said he loved her but left to establish a church for men, or the lighthouse keeper who shouted in his sleep all these men, and many others, have let Chloe down. ‘Chloe’s Song‘ is the story of one woman’s quest to get what every woman wants a man who tells the truth.

Soldiers and Lovers

In a sunlit, secret valley in the green mountains of central Italy, two people meet away from the horrors and clamor of battle. David Hopkins, a young fisherman, and Kate Medhurst embark upon an idyllic love affair away from the conflict that surrounds them. However, they cannot escape the war forever, and when they are targeted by a single enemy airplane their dreams are destroyed. Weeks later, Hopkins wakes up in a Russian hospital in Vienna where he’s slowly recovering from serious wounds with no recollection of the past. Eventually, transferred to an American hospital and then repatriated to Britain, Hopkins reluctantly returns home. Alone and haunted by the months he cannot remember, Hopkins embarks upon a journey of rediscovery.

Almost Heaven

A slightly irreverent take on stories and myths that surround the world famous Salisbury Cathedral, its Close and the surrounding area-from the 13th century through to the present day. Some of the stories are hilarious, others sensational, many published for the first time-and most of them are true!