Pamela Stephenson Books in Order

Pamela Stephenson collaborates with Mike Lepine and Mark Leigh on a satirical guide written as a female companion to How to Be a Complete Bastard. Its mock advice reflects the deliberately provocative comedy of the 1980s.

Stephenson returns to life with Billy Connolly as he reaches sixty, combining memories of his Glasgow childhood with an intimate view of their marriage. The portrait moves between his comedy and music and her work in psychology.

Stephenson retraces the South Seas travels of Fanny Stevenson, wife of Robert Louis Stevenson. Her sailing journey combines personal adventure with historical investigation, exploring the experiences of an earlier traveler whose independence and marriage echo aspects of her own.

A conflicting account of her ancestor’s disappearance sends Stephenson searching for the truth about sea captain Sam Stephenson. Maritime archives and a voyage along the old spice route turn family history into an investigation involving mutiny, danger and uncertainty.

Drawing on her clinical experience, Stephenson explains a range of mental health difficulties in accessible language. Self-assessment tools and discussions of mood, sleep, anxiety, trauma and childhood experience help readers understand problems and consider manageable changes.

Drawing on interviews with people of varied ages and backgrounds, Stephenson-Connolly explores how sexuality develops across a lifetime. Personal accounts and a therapist’s perspective question assumptions about normality while examining the experiences that shape sexual identity and relationships.

Stephenson recounts her Australian childhood, move to London and career in comedy before marriage, motherhood and a new profession in psychology. Her memoir follows the changes that led from television fame to later public and personal reinvention.