Ellery Lloyd Books in Order

Ellery Lloyd is the shared pen name of Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos, a married writing team based in East London. Together they write thrillers that like to peek behind polished surfaces, celebrity, status, money, online fame, and ask what people are willing to hide to keep a life looking perfect.

Before they published together, they came from different corners of the word business. Collette built a career as a journalist and editor, including senior roles at ELLE UK and Soho House, and wrote for newspapers such as The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times. Paul published the novels Welcome to the Working Week and Every Day Is Like Sunday, while also building an academic life in literature and creative writing. He now teaches at the University of Greenwich.

They did not jump straight into becoming a fiction duo. In interviews, Collette has said they had been married for years before they tried writing a novel together, and the spark came after their daughter was born. She found herself deep in the world of parenting influencers on Instagram and started thinking about the gap between public honesty and private performance. That looked less like a trend piece and more like a thriller.

That idea became People Like Her.

The debut follows Emmy Jackson, a mother whose online brand is built on seeming truthful, relatable, and endlessly watchable. It gave the pair a setting that felt current without turning the book into a lecture about the internet. Readers who click with Ellery Lloyd often like this exact tension, the shiny version of a life on one side, the compromises and damage on the other. The novel became a notable book club pick in both the UK and the US.

Their process sounds methodical, which helps explain why the books move so fast. They plot in detail before drafting, then split up viewpoints between them, something that works well because their novels often use multiple narrators. After that, both of them revise everything. By the end, they have said, they can barely tell who wrote which sentence.

They really do write together.

The later books keep the same interest in glamorous worlds that look inviting from the outside and much messier from the inside. The Club moves into an ultra-exclusive members' club opening on a private island, where staff and guests bring old grudges and fresh ambitions to the same weekend. The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby shifts into the art world, linking a 1930s fire, a Cambridge discovery, and a present-day murder case. In 2026, Time to Burn takes a speculative turn, using commercial time travel for a story about privilege, memory, and consequences.

Even in shorter work like Bad Date and Heat Trap, they stay interested in performance, desire, class, and the bad decisions people make when they feel cornered. Their books tend to mix social observation with suspense, and they are especially good at writing people who are clever, image-conscious, and not nearly as in control as they think they are. That is a big part of the fun.

These days Lyons and Vlitos still live in East London with their daughter. Ellery Lloyd may be a shared name, but the books under it feel consistent: tense, readable, interested in modern pressures, and always ready to ask what lies just behind the curated version of a life.