Daphne du Maurier Books in Order

This anthology gathers thirteen of du Maurier's darkest stories, among them The Birds, Don't Look Now and The Blue Lenses. Ranging from quiet psychological pieces to outright horror, it highlights her gift for turning everyday situations into something uncanny.

This collection of early, previously lost stories showcases du Maurier's fascination with desire, control and loneliness. From the obsessive narrator of The Doll to fragile marriages and manipulative friends, the pieces foreshadow the emotional tangles of her later work.

Edited by Oriel Malet, this volume presents decades of letters sent by du Maurier from her Cornish home, Menabilly. Candid and often funny, they reveal her family life, writing worries and the friendships that sustained her away from public attention.

In this pictorial memoir, completed late in life, du Maurier reflects on her decades in Cornwall and the houses, coves and woods that inspired her fiction. Photographs and essays together create an intimate portrait of a writer in love with a particular landscape.

An illustrated anthology of six of du Maurier's most chilling stories, including The Birds, The Apple Tree and Don't Look Now. Rich artwork underscores the atmosphere as familiar landscapes slide into nightmare and characters face uncanny fates.

A companion to Rebecca that prints the novel's original outline and epilogue alongside essays and family reminiscences. Du Maurier writes about finding the real house behind Manderley and about the people and places that shaped her imagination.

Centred on tales like Split Second, in which an ordinary day turns terrifying after a brief blackout, this volume collects suspenseful shorter pieces. Du Maurier shows how a single moment or decision can throw a seemingly safe life into chaos.

Fourteen stories spanning du Maurier's career explore romance, disillusionment, nostalgia and sudden menace. People who think they know their own lives find themselves overtaken by chance meetings, old obsessions or a single impulsive choice that cannot be undone.

A companion biography to Golden Lads, this book traces Sir Francis Bacon's rise to high office and spectacular fall on charges of corruption. Du Maurier focuses on his character, loyalties and compromises rather than legal technicalities, making a complex life approachable.

An autobiographical memoir drawn from du Maurier's teenage and early adult diaries, describing her London childhood, discovery of Cornwall and first attempts at fiction. It shows how a shy, imaginative girl slowly shaped herself into a working writer.

A double biography of brothers Francis and Anthony Bacon, exploring their lives at the court of Elizabeth I and James I. Du Maurier follows Anthony's work as a spy and Francis's rise as thinker and statesman, foregrounding friendships, secrets and political intrigue.

This collection gathers five longer stories of slow-burning horror and mystery, led by Don't Look Now with its grieving couple in Venice. Other tales follow pilgrims, schoolteachers and scientists whose lives are derailed by visions, accidents and experiments they cannot control.

In a near future where Britain has left Europe and entered a fraught union with the United States, a retired actress and her granddaughter watch Marines land in their Cornish village. Their rambling house becomes a base for resistance in a satirical, uneasy political fable.

This selection brings together nine of du Maurier's most unsettling stories, including The Birds and Don't Look Now. Ordinary people on holidays, country lanes and quiet coasts stumble into visions, doubles and dangers that leave them with no safe place to run.

In this classic short story, grieving parents John and Laura holiday in Venice after their daughter's death. When they meet two elderly sisters, one claiming to see the dead child, John's scepticism clashes with a series of eerie sightings that build to a shocking climax.

Staying at a friend's house in Cornwall, Dick Young tests an experimental drug that sends his mind back to the 14th century while his body wanders the present. Addicted to the past he observes, he risks his marriage, sanity and even his life as both worlds collide.

In this illustrated travel book, du Maurier explores Cornwall's landscape, history and legends, from moorland and fishing villages to ghost stories and old industries. Part guide, part meditation, it records a region she loved and feared was disappearing under modern tourism.

Tour guide Armino Fabbio returns to his Italian hometown of Ruffano and finds it ruled by his charismatic brother Aldo, leader of a brutal student movement. As an elaborate festival approaches, past and present violence converge in a modern echo of an old ducal legend.

Through the story of the Busson family, master glassblowers in provincial France, this novel follows artisans caught up in the upheavals of the French Revolution. Narrator Sophie Duval looks back on decades of ambition, loyalty and betrayal as her family struggles to survive.

A hefty omnibus bringing together many of Daphne du Maurier's best known tales of suspense, romance and the macabre. It offers readers a single volume tour through her world of haunted houses, obsessive love affairs and unsettling twists.

Du Maurier's biography of Branwell Bronte traces the gifted brother of Charlotte, Emily and Anne from promising childhood to self-destruction. Using letters and family documents, she tries to rescue him from legend and understand the forces that ruined his talent.

A collection of long stories in which apparently stable lives crack under pressure, from a woman who wakes from surgery seeing people with animal heads to an ordinary man planning the perfect crime. Each tale pushes a character to the moment everything gives way.

Holidaying in France, an English academic meets his exact double, a dissolute French count. After a night of drinking he wakes to find their identities swapped and must navigate the count's crumbling estate, secrets and resentful family while deciding who he wants to be.

Drawing on her own ancestor Mary Anne Clarke, du Maurier tells of a clever girl who escapes London poverty to become mistress to the Duke of York. Her ambition and wit carry her into the heart of Regency scandal in a vivid piece of historical fiction.

This volume gathers eighteen stories written in du Maurier's early twenties, before her first novel. Ranging from romantic encounters to eerie character studies, they show the young writer experimenting with voice, mood and the seeds of the themes she returned to later.

Named for the eerie title story about a shy mechanic and a cinema usherette with a disturbing secret, this collection offers eight tales of love, danger and the uncanny. Chance meetings and ordinary nights out turn into encounters with violence and obsession.

On Christmas Eve a comfortable English family reluctantly shelters a destitute refugee couple over the garage. By morning the visitors have gone and a baby has been born, leaving the household shaken in a modern parable about hospitality, prejudice and quiet miracles.

A selection of letters written by artist and novelist George du Maurier between 1860 and 1867, edited by his granddaughter Daphne. The correspondence reveals his early struggles, friendships and creative life before fame as a caricaturist and author.

In a sun-baked French resort, a bored marquise begins a flirtation with the local photographer to relieve her ennui. Their affair shifts from holiday game to something far darker, exposing cruelty and class contempt beneath an elegant surface.

This collection gathers some of Daphne du Maurier's finest uncanny tales, including the story of a widower who believes a gnarled apple tree holds his dead wife's spirit. Everyday settings slide into horror as guilt, obsession and the natural world turn threatening.

Orphaned Philip Ashley idolises his guardian cousin Ambrose, then grows to suspect Ambrose's widow Rachel of murder. When Rachel arrives in Cornwall, Philip falls under her spell, unsure whether she is victim or poisoner in a tense, ambiguous gothic mystery.

Maria, Niall and Celia Delaney grow up on the fringes of the theatre, feeding on the glamour and success of their gifted parents. As adults their tangled loyalties, rivalries and unspoken desires force them to ask whether they are creating art or simply living off others.

Set in Cornwall during the English Civil War, the story is narrated by Honor Harris, left disabled after a riding accident. From her wheelchair she watches her former lover, the charismatic Royalist general Richard Grenvile, bring war, loyalty and betrayal to Menabilly.

A sweeping tale of the Brodrick family, Anglo-Irish landowners whose fortunes are tied to a copper mine on Hungry Hill from 1820 to 1920. Each generation inherits both wealth and a growing curse, as greed, violence and history grind the dynasty down.

Restless with London society, Lady Dona St Columb retreats to her husband's Cornish estate and discovers it is the secret base of a cultured French pirate. Drawn to his dangerous freedom, she must choose between respectable life and a brief, illicit adventure.

This short book collects real-life stories of ordinary Britons in the early years of the Second World War. Du Maurier shows how people facing invasion, loss and hardship search for inner courage, faith and a new moral direction.

In 19th century Cornwall, a Breton onion seller and a newly married local woman are drawn into a passionate, doomed affair that echoes the legend of Tristan and Iseult. The novel shifts between everyday village life and the pull of an older, fatal story.

A young woman marries widower Maxim de Winter and moves to his Cornish estate, Manderley. There she is haunted by the memory of his first wife Rebecca, and by the housekeeper who seems determined to keep Rebecca alive.

This family chronicle recreates the lives of the du Maurier ancestors who left France for Victorian England. Blending fact and storytelling, it follows their fortunes in art, theatre and high society, setting the background for Daphne du Maurier's own generation.

After her mother's death, Mary Yellan travels to bleak Bodmin Moor to live with her aunt and brutal uncle at the isolated Jamaica Inn. There she uncovers a smuggling and wrecking operation that draws her into danger on the wild Cornish coast.

Daphne du Maurier's portrait of her father, the actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier, tracing his London stage career and complicated private life. Drawn from family memories, it shows both the charm that captivated audiences and the vulnerabilities hidden backstage.

Born poor in a North African slum, Julius rises to become a wealthy London businessman with a ruthless streak. His hunger for power and control warps every relationship around him in a dark study of ambition and moral emptiness.

A disillusioned young man on the brink of suicide is pulled back by a chance meeting with an older drifter. Together they roam across Europe and Scandinavia, forcing him to confront desire, responsibility and what it really means to grow up.

A family saga set in a Cornish shipbuilding town, following four generations of the Coombe family and the schooner named Janet Coombe. Longing for the sea, pride and old resentments shape their fortunes across storms, voyages and betrayals.