Catherine Chidgey Books in Order

After Clifford Stilton’s death, his neglected diaries begin to influence the family he left behind. Across generations and continents, his descendants explore inherited memories, their own versions of the past and the traces left by ordinary lives.

Colette receives mysterious letters about an unconscious stranger in England while caring for the son of a family grieving a missing daughter. Their separate lives gradually reveal connections shaped by memory, loss and the search for understanding.

In 1898 Tampa, fashionable wigmaker Lucien Goulet becomes obsessed with a young widow’s extraordinary hair. Convinced it is essential to his greatest creation, he faces the inconvenient fact that the material still belongs to a living woman.

Two German children find temporary shelter together in a ruined Berlin theater as war destroys the world they know. An enigmatic narrator watches their encounter unfold, tracing the stories and false promises that have shaped their lives.

Recorded fragments of daily speech form an experimental portrait of a year in Catherine Chidgey’s life. Her daughter’s developing language, her mother’s dementia and ordinary family decisions emerge amid the constant noise of contemporary communication.

When Dad’s shoe disappears, Jiffy the cat takes on the mystery. This picture book follows the feline detective’s search, turning a familiar household mishap into a small adventure for young readers to investigate alongside him.

Living beside Buchenwald, Greta Hahn enjoys the comforts provided by her husband’s administrative position while overlooking the camp’s reality. An unlikely relationship with an imprisoned doctor challenges that ignorance and the hopes attached to his experimental invention.

Rescued magpie Tama learns to speak and becomes increasingly famous while living with Marnie and her volatile farmer husband. Caught between warnings from wild birds and the secrets of a violent marriage, he witnesses their world unravel.

Twelve-year-old Justine longs to become her charismatic teacher’s favorite, like the other girls in her class. A series of school thefts deepens her unease, forcing her to question loyalty, guilt and the adult she admires.

In an alternative 1979 England, three brothers live under strict supervision in a secluded government home. As the scheme faces closure, their prescribed medicine, lessons and dreams of departure begin to reveal a much darker purpose.