Laurie Graham Books in Order

A funny, unflustered look at the daily muddle of bringing up children. Laurie Graham turns parental panic, small disasters, and hard-won perspective into comic relief.

Laurie Graham's debut is a sharp comic novel about work, expectation, and the part someone is supposed to play. It watches private discontent build beneath the surface of ordinary life.

This witty guide tackles married life from the small irritations to the big fault lines. In-laws, housework, sex, infidelity, and DIY all get put under the microscope.

A comic guide to modern manners, from invitations and small talk to sport, tact, and the things better left unsaid. It is Laurie Graham at her driest and most observant.

Laurie Graham turns a sharp eye on the habits of British travelers once they leave home. It is a funny study of culture clash, bad manners, and the strange comforts people pack with them.

A practical, funny guide to living with adolescents without losing perspective. Laurie Graham writes about family rows, independence, and the odd balance between backing off and staying present.

England, 1962. Housepainter Ronnie Glover is restless in his neat domestic life until a glamorous outsider and the lure of tango show him a world that feels bigger, riskier, and harder to resist.

Lizzie Partridge thought television would bring glamour, not lonely dinners and humiliating midlife dating. As a divorced TV cook juggling work, family, and bad decisions, she tries to hold herself together with humor and food.

Ba and Bobs have built a comfortable life, but a Caribbean trip for his fiftieth birthday opens up a secret that threatens the whole marriage. Family gossip, hurt pride, and real tenderness collide as everything starts to wobble.

Birdie Gibbs is old, bored, and stuck in a high-rise she hates, living mainly on memories and stubbornness. When an ex-husband reappears with a greyhound, the past comes rushing back just as her estate begins to boil over.

In 1950s Norfolk, five American Air Force wives are thrown together on an isolated base while their husbands patrol Cold War skies. Friendship, marriage, and culture shock shape their lives for decades.

What hope is there for awkward, fun-loving heiress Poppy Minkel when her mother turns marriage into a campaign? As the century lurches on, Poppy's life becomes a fast, funny, and often ruthless act of self-invention.

Poppy Minkel, daughter of a mustard fortune, barrels through the twentieth century with nerve, money, and very little self-doubt. Her sharp, reckless memoir turns family tragedy and social upheaval into dark comedy.

Told through the diary of Baltimore widow Maybell Brumby, this novel trails Wallis Simpson from schooldays to royal scandal. Maybell's money, vanity, and blind loyalty put her close to one of the century's most notorious romances.

From provincial Wales to Las Vegas, two brothers chase fame as entertainers across the middle decades of the twentieth century. Success comes with reinvention, family strain, and the usual gap between stage sparkle and real life.

Irish nursery maid Nora Brennan finds herself at the heart of the Kennedy household and watches the dynasty take shape from the nursery onward. Her practical eye cuts through the glamour, ambition, and family myth.

Buzz Wexler thinks being shoved from cool urban acts to world music is a career demotion, until she is sent on tour with a band of formidable Bulgarian grannies. The trip becomes a culture clash, a comedy, and an unexpected lesson in how to live.

Enid has spent years playing support act to her grandiose husband on cruise ships, until his past starts to come loose at sea. Forced to look again at her marriage, she begins to imagine a different life for herself.

Twelve-year-old Nellie Welche is chosen to be companion to Princess Sophia, daughter of George III. From palace routines to family secrets, her long view of royal life turns history into something intimate and human.

Nan grows up under the spell of her mother's wild claim that Lord Nelson was her father. As the story passes to the next generation, the search for truth becomes a tangle of longing, lies, and reinvention.

Princess Victoria Melita, known as Ducky, is pushed into dynastic marriage, personal scandal, and the collapsing world of Europe's royal families. Her path back to the Romanovs leads straight toward revolution.

Dot Allbones makes a life for herself on the music hall stage, while her old friend Kate Eddowes slips toward poverty in Whitechapel. Their lives cross again in 1888, under the shadow of the Ripper murders.

Ten years after the first novel, Peggy and her old circle are in their seventies and still bracing for whatever life sends next. Aging, loss, old loyalties, and a changing world give this sequel its wit and ache.

Ex TV chef Lizzie Partridge has seen her career collapse in spectacular fashion after a chocolate mousse incident. A flight to Aberystwyth, a brush with the past, and a possible comeback force her to rethink what comes next.

Fresh from training and offered a glossy future, young doctor Dan Talbot chooses a GP practice in rough-edged Sandwell instead. The patients are demanding, the work is messy, and real medicine proves far less tidy than the brochures.

Now married, mortgaged, and newly qualified, Dan heads into a fresh chapter in Colwyn Bay. New patients and new pressures test whether adulthood is really as settled as it looks.

Dan Talbot is close to finishing his GP training and planning a wedding with Chloe, so life should finally be settling down. Then work politics, romantic complications, and plain bad timing start to pull everything off course.

By 2017 Dan is working as a family doctor in a Welsh seaside town and trying to hold together the right job and the right relationship. Home life is fuller, work is still relentless, and both roles ask more of him than ever.