Barbara Taylor Bradford Books in Order

An early lifestyle guide in Bradford's How to Be the Perfect Wife series, this pocket book offers straightforward advice on choosing flattering clothes and accessories, with an emphasis on neatness, occasion appropriate looks, and making everyday fashion feel polished.

Bradford shares practical interior design tips for real homes, showing how color, furniture placement, lighting, fabrics and accessories can transform a room. Illustrated examples break decorating into simple steps so beginners can refresh spaces without spending a fortune.

Written from her years as a design columnist, this handbook tackles common decorating dilemmas, from awkward floor plans to small rooms and bad lighting. Bradford offers before and after solutions that help readers see how to fix problem spaces with clever, affordable changes.

Beginning as a teenage maid in a Yorkshire great house, Emma Harte refuses to stay poor and powerless. Across decades of work, sacrifice and heartbreak, she builds a vast retail empire, while family betrayals force her to fight to protect everything she has created.

This design book focuses on getting more from limited square footage, with ideas for visually enlarging rooms, creating storage, dividing open layouts and making one room serve several purposes. Photographs and explanations show how to stretch small homes without major building work.

Bradford turns her eye to city apartments, offering inspiration for elegant yet livable rooms in high rise spaces. She highlights floor plans, materials, lighting and furnishings that maximize comfort and style, from compact studios to sprawling penthouses.

Two young women, fiery actress Katharine Tempest and reserved writer Francesca Cunningham, rise together in the worlds of film and fiction. Fame, ambition and a shared love shatter their friendship, leaving them to reckon with betrayal, regret and the cost of getting everything they wanted.

Focused on relaxed, informal rooms, this decorating guide collects ideas for comfortable seating, easy care fabrics, warm color schemes and simple accessories. Bradford shows how to create inviting living spaces that suit everyday family life rather than formal entertaining.

Emma Harte's granddaughter Paula has inherited the Harte department store empire and the responsibility that comes with it. As rivals circle and family loyalties fracture, Paula must protect the business, her marriage and her children without losing the independence Emma taught her to value.

Spanning three generations, this saga follows nurse Audra Kenton, her brilliant daughter Christina and granddaughter Kyle. Each woman makes a fateful choice about love and ambition, from English hospitals to the fashion houses of New York, testing how far they will go to secure a better life.

Now the undisputed head of Harte’s, Paula O’Neill tries to modernize Emma Harte’s empire while raising a family and facing a ruthless cousin who wants control. Boardroom battles, international deals and tangled loyalties push Paula to prove she truly is the best.

Born in prewar Berlin and orphaned by the Holocaust, Maximilian West remakes himself as a London based billionaire. His story unfolds through the women who shape him, from his mother and grandmother to wives, lovers and a daughter, as he confronts buried trauma and hard won success.

War correspondent Nicky Wells is rebuilding her life after her aristocratic fiancé dies in a boating accident. Years later, a stranger’s face in a crowd looks exactly like him, drawing her into an international mystery that exposes secrets about his past and her own.

Four orphans who once clung to each other for survival grow into a costume designer, a movie star, a powerful PR executive and an undercover cop. Old loyalties are tested when a glamorous singer and buried secrets threaten the hard won lives they have built.

Mallory Keswick’s privileged Connecticut life vanishes in a sudden act of violence. Crushed by grief, she retreats to the Yorkshire moors, then slowly rebuilds herself by opening a gourmet shop and café, discovering new purpose and an unexpected chance at love.

Charismatic philanthropist Sebastian Locke is celebrated for his global charity work until he is found dead in suspicious circumstances. His ex wife and confidante Vivienne Trent, a journalist, digs into his past and uncovers a web of secrets that challenge his saintly public image.

Interior designer Maggie Sorrell, reeling from divorce, takes a job in small town Connecticut and meets Jake Cantrell, a gifted electrician nine years younger. As they fall in love, illness, family expectations and the age gap force them to decide what they are willing to risk.

War reporter Bill Fitzgerald escapes Bosnia for a brief rest in Venice and meets Vanessa Stewart, an American glass designer trapped in an unhappy engagement. Their whirlwind love affair spans continents, but a dangerous assignment and a disappearance leave Vanessa fighting for answers.

Hotelier Meredith Stratton appears to have it all, yet unexplained panic and exhaustion begin to derail her life. Therapy and a journey back to her earliest memories lead her from New England to Europe, where long buried truths about her childhood reshape her sense of who she is.

Stephanie Jardine runs the American arm of a famed London jewelry house and raises four children alone. When a random act of violence abroad leaves her teenage daughter gravely injured, Stevie must confront a painful old relationship and family secrets in order to secure her child’s future.

Lifelong friends Laura Valiant, an art dealer, and Claire Benson, a journalist, share everything until a devastating illness and a hidden childhood trauma come to light. Laura’s search for stolen wartime art uncovers connections to Claire’s past and offers both women a chance at healing.

Photojournalist Valentine Denning thrives in war zones alongside colleagues Tony and Jake, one her best friend, the other her lover. After a deadly ambush in Kosovo, grief and guilt drive her back to civilian assignments, where new relationships force her to question what home really means.

Drawing on scenes from her novels and her own marriage, Bradford offers ideas for adding small romantic gestures to daily life, from shared rituals and thoughtful gifts to cozy meals and travel, with an emphasis on nurturing long term relationships rather than grand occasions.

As a teenager in Connecticut, Katie Byrne finds her dream of acting shattered when a friend is murdered and another left in a coma. A decade later, now struggling in New York theatre, she finally faces the trauma of that night while chasing the role that could change everything.

Four former students of an elite Paris design school reunite for their mentor’s 85th birthday. Old grudges, lost loves and unfinished business surface as Alexandra, Kay, Jessica and Maria revisit the city that launched their careers and discover how much they still mean to one another.

Years after Emma Harte’s death, her granddaughter Paula runs the family business, while her daughters clash over ambition and love. When American designer Evan Hughes arrives in London seeking answers about her own heritage, wartime diaries reveal a hidden chapter of Emma’s life.

Newly married Linnet O’Neill returns from honeymoon eager to modernize Harte’s stores, only to clash with her mother Paula and face a family crisis that leaves her in charge. As cousins Tessa, India and Evan confront their own upheavals, an old enemy plots revenge against them all.

Emma Harte’s great granddaughters Evan, Tessa, Linnet and India juggle careers, love affairs and simmering rivalries. A missing child, a dangerous enemy and revelations from Emma’s old letters force the women to rely on one another to defend both the family and its far flung empire.

After a suspicious fire in 1904 kills most of his male relatives, Edward Deravenel vows to reclaim the family’s vast trading company. Love affairs, ruthless rivals and betrayals inside his own clan shape a decades long battle for power that defines the House of Deravenel.

With World War I over, Edward Deravenel believes the business is finally secure, but his reckless brother George threatens everything with gambling and blackmail. Tragedy shifts the burden to Edward’s daughter Bess and, later, her son Harry, who must rebuild the dynasty in a changing world.

At twenty five, Elizabeth Turner becomes head of the centuries old Deravenel empire. Surrounded by jealous relatives, corporate raiders and a complicated love from her past, she must decide how far she will go to protect the company, her independence and the future of her family’s name.

A brutal attack in rural England sends a young woman fleeing to New York, where she reinvents herself as supermodel M. Global fame and a whirlwind marriage follow, but when accidents begin to stalk her and her family, she is forced to confront the violent past she tried to escape.

London art consultant Annette Remmington becomes an overnight star after auctioning a lost Rembrandt. When a high profile magazine profile dredges up her hidden past, jealousies, old crimes and dangerous secrets threaten her marriage, her career and the glittering world she has built.

Filmmaker Justine Nolan accidentally opens a letter to her distant mother and discovers that her beloved grandmother is still alive. The revelation sends her from Connecticut to Istanbul and back into wartime Europe’s shadows, uncovering buried family history and a new chance at love.

Combat photographer Serena Stone steps away from the front lines after her legendary father dies. As she helps an injured ex lover and sorts his archive, an unseen set of Venice photographs hints at shocking secrets about her parents and her own identity.

Claire Saunders seems to enjoy a perfect diplomatic marriage and rewarding career in fashion, yet heavy makeup and sunglasses hide a pattern of abuse. When friends begin to see the truth, Claire must decide whether to keep protecting her powerful husband or finally protect herself.

In 1913 Yorkshire, Cavendon Hall shelters the aristocratic Ingham family and the loyal Swanns who have served them for generations. A violent scandal, looming war and shifting class rules test the bond between upstairs and downstairs as both families fight to keep the estate intact.

Best friends Hayley Martin and Fiona Chambers have been inseparable since childhood and now run a successful business together. When a shocking betrayal comes to light, Hayley has to ask whether the person who once saved her from bullies has become the most dangerous threat in her life.

From a golden summer in 1926 through the Wall Street crash, the women of Cavendon Hall shoulder the burdens of change. Daughters and maids confront divorce, scandal, career ambitions and shifting fortunes, proving that the future of the great house lies in their hands.

As Europe edges toward World War II, the Inghams and Swanns have pulled Cavendon back from near ruin. Now they must face air raids, rationing and personal loss, protecting the estate and each other while war reshapes their lives and the world they thought they knew.

Chicago political fixer Margo Nolan is about to board a plane with her husband when he suddenly disappears into the crowd. Using every contact she has, she digs into his past and discovers layers of lies, danger and betrayal she never imagined.

In 1949, postwar austerity and mounting debts threaten Cavendon Hall as Britain rebuilds. Old resentments flare between the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them, but new romances, bold business schemes and renewed loyalty may yet secure the estate’s future.

Artist Allison Jones grows up cherished by a close knit family of policemen, then falls deeply in love with steady, kind Mike. After tragedy shatters their marriage, grief and depression push Allison toward self destruction, forcing her to decide whether love is strong enough to pull her back.

In Victorian London, market stall boy James Lionel Falconer is determined to rise far beyond his humble beginnings. His talent and drive win the attention of shipping magnate Henry Malvern, but jealous rivals and a mysterious enemy jeopardize both his reputation and his life.

Now a trusted executive in Henry Malvern’s London shipping empire, James Falconer seems poised to take command. With Malvern’s brilliant daughter Alexis shattered by tragedy and business enemies circling, James must navigate ruthless boardroom politics without losing his sense of honor.

This prequel to A Woman of Substance follows orphaned Blackie O’Neill from rural Ireland to industrial Leeds, where he learns the navvy trade and dreams of building something lasting. On the Yorkshire moors he meets young kitchen maid Emma Harte, beginning the partnership that shapes both their lives.

During the First World War, self made tycoon James Falconer leaves his London businesses to fight on the Somme. Returning home wounded in body and spirit, he must face grief, mend a broken relationship with his estranged daughter and decide what kind of legacy he wants to leave.