Barbara Erskine Books in Order

In 382 AD, Welsh princess Elen is married to Roman general Macsen, a political union that becomes a fierce, risky love. Centuries later, writer Cadi lives beside Elen’s meadow and hears ghostly marching, battling developers and hostile neighbours so the lost story can finally be told.

Offa’s Dyke, 775 AD: rebellious princess Eadburh risks war when her true love is torn from her. In a cottage near the Dyke today, spiritual healer Bea begins to dream Eadburh’s story, drawing herself and a troubled historian into a dangerous Saxon feud.

Returning to Edinburgh after her estranged father’s death, Ruth discovers her ancestor Thomas Erskine’s 18th-century letters and diary hidden in his house. As she reads, Thomas’s remarkable rise – and the deadly enemy he made – bleed into Ruth’s life, putting her own survival at stake.

Grieving and under threat from her late partner’s unstable ex-wife, Miranda “Andy” Dysart escapes to Sleeper’s Castle near Hay-on-Wye. Her dreams carry her into the life of Catrin, a seer entangled in Owain Glyndŵr’s uprising, until violence from both past and present closes in.

In the summer of 1940, young artist Evie Lucas obsessively sketches a charismatic fighter pilot before he flies into the Battle of Britain. Decades later, widowed art historian Lucy is asked to research Evie’s work and uncovers secrets some families will do anything to conceal.

Hoping for a fresh start, Zoe and her husband Ken move into a converted barn beside the River Deben in Suffolk. As bones are unearthed and ghostly figures rise from the mist, past tragedies from Anglo-Saxon and Victorian times threaten to repeat themselves.

Newly ordained priest Abi Rutherford clashes with her charismatic but rigid vicar when she sees disturbing visions in a Cambridgeshire church. Sent to Glastonbury, she inherits a strange crystal and begins reliving a two-thousand-year-old story of Druids, Romans and a healer hunted as a heretic.

After a brutal attack, teacher Jess retreats to her sister’s cottage in the Welsh borders and hears the cries of an unseen child. Researching a local Roman-era battle, she uncovers the fate of princess Eigon – and stirs up both ancient and very modern dangers.

In Roman Britain, Cartimandua must balance love, vengeance and tribal politics as she rules the Brigantes under growing Roman pressure. Centuries later, historian Viv Lloyd Rees is consumed by visions of the queen and a cursed brooch whose power endangers everyone around her.

This collection of uncanny stories includes two sequels to the novel Whispers in the Sand, in which Anna and Louisa again confront the legacy of ancient Egypt. Other tales explore haunted love affairs, unnerving children and sudden slips through time, all edged with quiet menace.

Drawn back to the Essex village of her childhood, Emma Dickson buys Liza’s old cottage, once linked to 17th-century witch trials led by Matthew Hopkins. As Halloween nears, Emma and the local rector find themselves caught in forces rooted in that history, where jealousy, fear and alleged witchcraft never truly died.

Newly divorced Anna Fox retraces her great-great-grandmother Louisa’s Nile cruise, taking along Louisa’s diary and an antique Egyptian scent bottle. On the river, rival suitors circle and an ancient feud reawakens, leaving Anna and her fellow travellers exposed to a growing supernatural threat.

As a teenager near a standing stone in the Scottish Highlands, Adam Craig falls in love with the mysterious Brid, who pulls him back into the sixth century and Druid magic. Decades later, her obsessive curse still stalks his family until his granddaughter intervenes.

In this second story collection, Barbara Erskine ranges from contemporary streets to smuggling coasts and haunted houses. Biographers, vicars’ daughters and lonely children all hear distant voices that reveal buried secrets, mixing quiet heartbreak with shivery, supernatural twists.

Adopted at birth, Joss Grant unexpectedly inherits Belheddon Hall, a crumbling manor on the Essex coast, and moves in with her husband and young sons. Local whispers of a curse soon prove terrifyingly real as the house’s violent past reaches for her family.

After a breakup, biographer Kate Kennedy retreats to an isolated cottage on the wild Essex coast to work in peace. When a nearby Roman grave is disturbed, vengeful spirits awaken, turning Kate’s refuge into the centre of a centuries-old struggle for justice.

Milestones showcases Barbara Erskine’s shorter romantic fiction, following characters through love, loss and the difficult decisions that define them. The stories linger on the small turning points that become the milestones of a lifetime.

Born in 1218, Princess Eleyne is raised by a fiercely Welsh nurse who teaches her the old gods and lends her the gift of second sight. Swept into dynastic marriages across England, Scotland and Wales, Eleyne’s dangerous visions shadow every alliance and love affair.

This early collection gathers more than forty short stories in which chance meetings, ghostly visitations and sudden flashes of memory change people’s lives. From romantic twists to eerie time-slips, each tale offers a quick, intimate glimpse into Barbara Erskine’s supernatural imagination.

Clare Royland appears to have everything, yet her childless marriage and vivid dreams leave her increasingly obsessed with her ancestress, Isobel, Countess of Buchan. At Duncairn Castle, Scotland’s war with England – and Isobel’s defiance – begin to echo through Clare’s own threatened life.

Investigating past-life regression for a magazine feature, journalist Jo Clifford is hypnotised and finds herself living as Matilda de Braose, a 13th‑century noblewoman caught in King John’s ruthless politics. As Jo’s visions deepen, danger in both centuries draws fatally close.