Christina Jones Books in Order
This page lists Christina Jones books in order, with short summaries, series guides, and simple tips on where to start with her warm village romances.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
27 books
Going the Distance
by Christina Jones
1995
Maddy Beckett is recovering from heartbreak when she meets Drew in horse-mad Milton St John and falls hard. Then his wife turns up, and Maddy's fresh start becomes much messier than she imagined.
Running the Risk
by Christina Jones
1997
Georgia Drummond and her grandmother run a small transport company, and Rory Faulkner arrives as both business opportunity and romantic complication. When clients vanish and accidents mount, Georgia has to ask whether trusting him is too dangerous.
Stealing The Show
by Christina Jones
1998
The Bradley family's traditional fair is under pressure, and Danny and Sam want to modernise before it's too late. Their sister disagrees, and the fight over the future turns family loyalty into a proper showground battle.
Dancing in the Moonlight
by Christina Jones
1999
Stable jockey Rosa Brennan loves her work until a run-in over reckless driving brings handsome Kit Pedersen into her orbit. This short prequel sets up the horsey world and romantic tangles that shape the Milton St John books.
Jumping to Conclusions
by Christina Jones
1999
Redundant and short on options, Jemima Carlisle heads for village life and hopes for calm. Instead she gets a racing town full of controversy, a bookshop dream, family trouble, and more horse-related drama than she ever wanted.
Walking on Air
by Christina Jones
2000
Taxi driver Billie Pascoe spends her grandmother's legacy on a warehouse beside a small airfield and quickly lands in trouble. Between a mystery from her past, an old plane, and wing-walking, her new start becomes a very wild ride.
Nothing To Lose
by Christina Jones
2001
Jasmine Clark inherits a bookie's pitch and a condemned beach hut, while single mother April ends up with a greyhound instead of payment. Their lives collide around a shabby stadium, local schemes, and the possibility of a very different future.
Tickled Pink
by Christina Jones
2002
Posy Nightingale, Lola Wentworth, and Flynn Malone are all stuck in different kinds of dead end when chance throws them together at a struggling B&B. What follows is a funny, warm story about risk, reinvention, and unlikely partnership.
Honeysuckle House
by Christina Jones
2003
Rosie's husband walks out after nearly twenty-five years of marriage, leaving her family, home, and restaurant under strain. What looks like disaster becomes the start of a messy, emotional, and unexpectedly hopeful new chapter.
Hubble Bubble
by Christina Jones
2004
Forced into early retirement at fifty-five, Mitzi Blessing faces a future that feels far too small. Then she discovers her grandmother's old cookery book, and village life begins to fizz with fresh purpose, mischief, and a hint of magic.
Lavender Lane
by Christina Jones
2004
The Phillips family have built Lavender Cabs into the heart of their Berkshire town, so Bob and Amy's plan to retire hits everyone hard. Selling the business could change all their lives, whether the family is ready or not.
Seeing Stars
by Christina Jones
2005
City girl Amber arrives for a summer in the country and finds herself among villagers who live by constellations, moon lore, and strange little rituals. Sceptical at first, she is pulled into the fun, and then into something harder to explain.
Forever Autumn
by Christina Jones
2006
After a painful betrayal, Stephanie Gibson heads to the south coast to nanny for the sprawling Matthews family. Their warmth helps her settle, but falling in love again means risking the kind of hurt she thought she'd escaped.
Love Potions
by Christina Jones
2006
Aromatherapist Sukie Ambrose starts using her cottage garden in her homemade products and accidentally stirs up more than nice scents. Soon her lotions and massages are nudging people toward romance in wonderfully inconvenient ways.
Summer of Love
by Christina Jones
2006
In the summer of 1969, sensible seventeen-year-old Clemmie expects exams, long days, and plans for university. Meeting Lewis Coleman-Beck changes everything, pulling her into a first love that feels as big as the era around her.
Heaven Sent
by Christina Jones
2007
With thirty looming, Clemmie wants a proper job and a proper love life, preferably involving fireworks boss Guy Devlin. But Guy's baggage is heavy, his life is complicated, and Clemmie's grand plans are anything but simple.
Happy Birthday
by Christina Jones
2008
Jilted on her wedding day, Phoebe Bowler turns to grumpy neighbour Rocky just when her life is falling apart. Then an expert in birthday magic enters the picture, and Phoebe starts wondering if fate can be nudged along.
Moonshine
by Christina Jones
2009
Newly single Cleo Moon moves to Lovers Knot and is soon wrangling eccentric neighbours, a handsome Dylan Maguire, and the village Harvest Festival. Her homemade brew adds a magical kick, and the festivities spin gloriously out of control.
The Way to a Woman's Heart
by Christina Jones
2010
Ella Maloney escapes city life for the Berkshire countryside, hoping for peace and space to rethink her relationship. Instead she finds a TV cookery show, a handsome chef called Ash, and more emotional complication than she bargained for.
Bucolic Frolics
by Christina Jones
2011
A cheerful collection of village stories, childhood memories, and rural comic mishaps. It blends affectionate observations about everyday life with the offbeat humour that runs through Jones's longer fiction.
Happy Ever After
by Christina Jones
2011
This collection gathers Christina Jones's romantic short stories, all shaped by humour, warmth, and the promise of a happy ending. Some are comic, some are softer, but every one leaves room for love.
Never Can Say Goodbye
by Christina Jones
2011
When Frankie inherits a retro dress shop in Kingston Dapple, it feels like all her vintage-loving dreams have come true. Then a charming florist, a possible haunting, and a lot of odd village goings-on make life much less straightforward.
An Enormously English Monsoon Wedding
by Christina Jones
2012
Erin thinks planning her Berkshire wedding to Jay will be bliss, until his Indian parents arrive with very different ideas. Culture clashes, family expectations, and a flood of ceremonies turn one dream wedding into comic chaos.
Mitzi's Midwinter Wedding
by Christina Jones
2015
Mitzi and Joel want a quiet secret wedding, but a December breakdown leaves them stranded in snowy Pedlars Puddle. It's a short, cheerful winter caper packed with village mischief and wedding nerves.
Marigold's Magical Mystery Tour
by Christina Jones
2017
A late standalone that blends romance, comic mishaps, and a touch of magic. Jones brings warm humour, lively community energy, and unexpected turns as one strange journey upends everyday life.
Only One Woman
by Christina Jones
2017
Set against the last bright rush of the 1960s, this follows Renza and Stella, two young women drawn to the same guitarist, Scott. It's a love story about timing, music, and the question of who, if anyone, will get the happy ending.
Summer at Sandcastle Cottage
by Christina Jones
2021
Kitty Appleby finally feels at home in Firefly Common, until the owner of Sandcastle Cottage is due back from her cruise. While she fights not to lose her new life, mysterious Vinny becomes harder to ignore.
Where should I start?
If you want village magic and comic matchmaking: Hubble Bubble → Seeing Stars → Love Potions → Happy Birthday
If you want country romance with horses: Going the Distance → Running the Risk → Jumping to Conclusions
If you want warm standalones with a magical edge: Moonshine → The Way to a Woman's Heart → Never Can Say Goodbye
If you want a later seaside comfort read: Summer at Sandcastle Cottage
Author bio
Christina Jones was born in Oxford and grew up in a Berkshire village, a place that left a clear mark on the books she would write later. Her fiction is full of close-knit communities, local drama, and women who keep going even when life gets awkward, chaotic, or downright strange. That village feeling never really left her.
Writing came early.
Her parents were both big readers and natural storytellers, and she learned to read before she even started school. She has said she began making up stories at about five. Family lore mattered too. Her father was a circus clown, her mother trained as a teacher, and the story of how they met, with him working as Santa in a department store and her as the fairy in the grotto, stayed with her for years. She has often said that sense of love surviving obstacles sits at the heart of her novels.
She had her first short story published at fourteen, but getting to a novel took much longer. For years she wrote short stories and newspaper pieces for extra money while working a long list of day jobs. By her own count, she had twenty-seven jobs and was fired from nineteen of them, often because she was writing when she should have been doing something else. Shop assistant, waitress, cleaner, secretary, bookseller, nanny, fruit-picker, barmaid, market researcher, civil servant, nightclub dancer, she did a bit of everything.
Then things started to shift.
After winning awards for her short stories, she joined the Romantic Novelists' Association in 1993. She was runner-up for the New Writers' Scheme Award in 1995, and at an awards lunch an agent urged her to try full-length commercial fiction. Even before her big break, Dancing in the Moonlight had appeared in My Weekly Story Library, giving her an early taste of longer-form fiction. Soon after, Going the Distance sold straight away and was chosen for the 1997 WH Smith Fresh Talent promotion, the kind of break she had wanted for decades.
After that, she was off.
From there, Jones built a body of work that readers return to for warmth, humour, and sheer companionship. Books like Nothing to Lose, Hubble Bubble, Love Potions, An Enormously English Monsoon Wedding, and Summer at Sandcastle Cottage show what she does best. She writes women with jobs, worries, and sharp tongues. She writes villages where everybody knows everybody else's business. And she likes to add just a flicker of magic, enough to tip ordinary life into comedy, romance, or hopeful chaos.
Her books often circle the same things: community, second chances, family muddles, class differences, and the pull between wanting safety and wanting something more. Horses, fairgrounds, fireworks, cookery, vintage shops, seaside cottages, and village halls all find their way into the mix. So do heroines who are funny, practical, and tougher than they first appear. That comes straight from the world she grew up in, and from the strong women she has said inspired her.
These days she lives in rural Oxfordshire with her husband and rescue cats. The details of everyday life still seem to matter most in her work, and that may be why her novels feel so lived in. Even when something magical turns up, the people at the centre of the story still feel recognisable, like neighbours you know, or at least hope you might meet in a really good village.
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