Rosie Goodwin Books in Order

Louise Hart finally flees her violent husband Paul one freezing night in 1959, taking her young son Davey to her mother’s dilapidated animal sanctuary. But Paul’s criminal debts follow them, and even new friend Charlie Fox may not keep danger at bay.

After years under her cruel father’s thumb, Jane Reynolds retreats to her small farm and shuts the world out. When she shelters runaway Alice, the damaged girl awakens Jane’s longing to love and be loved, but dark secrets threaten their fragile new bond.

Orphaned Grace Collins grows up with a stern, joyless aunt and clings to the first man who shows her affection. Marriage brings some happiness, but ballroom dancing introduces her to charismatic Philip Golding and a glittering world that could ruin everything she holds dear.

Maggie Bright endures a brutal marriage but treasures her twins Danny and Lizzie and baby Lucy. When war sends her husband to the front and evacuates the twins from bomb‑hit Coventry to Wales, Maggie must survive the blitz at home while her children face hidden dangers away.

Continuing Catherine Cookson’s saga, Tilly Trotter is newly engaged to Steve McGrath and dreaming of peace at last. Instead she finds her grown children in crisis and Steve’s bitter mother scheming against her, forcing Tilly to fight again for her family’s future.

Sophie Winters would do anything for her family, despite her father Bill’s simmering hatred. When he drunkenly forces himself on her and leaves her pregnant at seventeen, Sophie runs to charming Ben Lewis for help, only to find herself trapped in a far darker web of exploitation.

Abused as a child and failed by those meant to protect her, Claire McMullen grows into a guarded young woman who sells her body to survive. Reinventing herself as the owner of a Blackpool hotel, she builds respectability, but marriage and success can’t fully bury what she’s running from.

Set after the First World War, this continuation of Catherine Cookson’s Mallen saga follows a new generation trying to rebuild shattered lives. As they confront old scandals and long-hidden lies, the family curse tied to the white Mallen streak refuses to die quietly.

Years after escaping her childhood and becoming Claire Nightingale, Claire moves to Solihull with her adopted daughter Nikki, hoping to mend family rifts. Both women are scarred by abuse, and when the past presses in, their fragile relationship and hard‑won security are pushed to breaking point.

Successful novelist Maisie’s third marriage to jealous Tommy soon turns sour. After a supposed accident in London, they relocate to her native Tyneside for a fresh start, but Tommy’s behaviour grows menacing and a strange employee known as the Sand Dancer unsettles her at every turn.

When Kate Cleary’s violent miner father dies, she and dependent sister Nuala leave their Durham cottage for the home of an unknown aunt in Nuneaton. There Kate finds safety and new love, until shocking secrets and a series of vicious attacks threaten to destroy everything.

Cheerful, poor but loved, Sassy’s world turns upside down when her father marries ambitious widow Elizabeth Bonner. Unwanted in her new household, Sassy clings to childhood friends Thomas and Jack Mallabone, but her blind adoration of wayward Thomas may cost her both love and security.

After one “accident” too many, four‑year‑old Alex is taken into care, adopted and renamed Franky. His new father’s cruelty, a string of failed foster homes and life on London’s streets leave him calling himself “the boy from nowhere” as he still waits for his real mum to return.

When her adoptive parents die in a mysterious house fire, young Maddie is blamed and separated from her beloved brother Oliver. Branded difficult, she’s sent to isolated River House, a harsh children’s home where cruelty is routine and only her fierce will offers a path to escape.

On a winter’s night, ribbon‑weaver Molly Ernshaw rescues a baby from the snow and raises her as Amy. Gifted and ambitious, Amy longs to design rather than weave and is swept into the orbit of hat magnate Samuel Forrester, whose haunted family hides dangerous secrets.

In 1938, Jewish teenager Adina and her family flee Cologne for England, landing in Nuneaton’s backstreets. As war rages, Adina builds a new life and falls for German POW Karl, a love that threatens her family’s fragile safety and sends shockwaves into the next generation.

When Jess Beddows steps into a long-abandoned manor once owned by the Fenton family, she feels an uncanny sense of home and buys it against her family’s advice. An old attic journal reveals servant Martha’s tragic story, and soon eerie whispers and buried emotions disturb Jess’s new life.

To outsiders, Charlotte is the indulged daughter of a village vicar; behind closed doors her father controls every breath. A secret pregnancy sees her exiled to a harsh Irish convent, and later, working as a London midwife, she fights to shield other women from similar cruelty.

Abandoned outside a hospital, baby Rebecca is adopted but never truly wanted. Cold parents and then a grasping aunt crush her spirit, and she dreams of joining the travelling circus that visits town, convinced its colour and camaraderie might finally make her belong.

In 1857, Maria Mundy takes a job at Hatters Hall asylum on the edge of Nuneaton and is assigned to Isabelle Montgomery, an influential landowner’s daughter who clearly isn’t mad. Discovering Hatters Hall is used to hide inconvenient pregnant women, Maria risks everything to help Isabelle fight back.

On the day war is declared, orphan Dotty, hardworking Lucy and privileged Annabelle all start work at Coventry’s only department store. As bombs fall and news from the front grows ever worse, the three very different young women forge an unbreakable friendship on the shop floor.

In 1840s Warwickshire, clever Maryann expects a lifetime in the mill like every other girl on Abbey Street. Her mother’s death leaves the family in chaos until Maryann is offered work as nanny to the mill owner’s daughter, drawing her into a grand house filled with secrets and temptation.

Bryony Valentine dotes on the boy next door, Eddie, even though her best friend Ruth loves him too. When war calls Eddie and Bryony’s father away and the Valentine children are evacuated to Cornwall, Bryony must grow up fast and cling to hope that they’ll all return.

Years after giving her infant daughter to the Farthings, Dilly Carey is stunned when Olivia arrives on her doorstep with a baby of her own and a terrible secret. As Dilly helps her, she must hide the truth from Max Farthing, the man who raised Olivia and quietly holds Dilly’s heart.

With her husband unable to work and four children already at home, Dilly Carey can’t feed her newborn baby. In desperation she leaves the child with the wealthy Farthing family and becomes their maid, a sacrifice that binds the two households through war and heartbreak.

An imaginative colouring book of fantastical cityscapes, Dream Cities invites you to fill soaring skylines, winding streets and hidden squares with colour, offering a calming way to travel through invented worlds pencil stroke by pencil stroke.

Splendid Cities is a detailed colouring book of real and imagined urban scenes, from grand boulevards to tiny rooftop gardens, created to encourage mindful, relaxing colouring sessions as you roam the world’s great places with pen or pencil in hand.

Now a widowed matriarch surrounded by children and grandchildren, Dilly Carey should be content, yet she’s still haunted by the daughter she gave up and the son she lost to war. Facing her past at a battlefield grave may finally open a path to forgiveness and new happiness.

Secret London is a colouring book that captures hidden courtyards, iconic landmarks and quirky side streets in intricate line art, inviting you to slow down, add colour and rediscover the city’s character one page at a time.

After her mother, two little brothers and sister die and her father is jailed for murder, Ginny loses the only home she’s known. Separated from her frail brother Charlie and pushed into service at Lamp Hill Hall, she must fight to reunite her family and build a future.

Fourteen-year-old Sunday Small has never left the Nuneaton workhouse, where harsh rules and the master’s unwanted attention make life unbearable. Escaping into the unknown, she vows to find her long-lost mother and one day return for her friend Daisy.

Left as a baby at Treetops Children’s Home, Kitty becomes the much-loved charge of Sunday Branning, who has never had children of her own. Summoned to London by her birth mother, Kitty’s angelic voice brings opportunity on the stage—and new dangers far from the safety of Treetops.

In late‑Victorian Nuneaton, gentle Grace Kettle is cherished by her mother and their housekeeper but oppressed by her bullying judge father. Sent to live with her aunt in the Welsh coastal town of Pwllheli, she discovers fresh air, faith tested in new ways, and the first taste of real freedom.

In 1912 London, eighteen-year-old lady’s maid Flora Butler proudly supports her struggling family. When her mistress Constance must move to New York, Flora agrees to sail with her on the Titanic, leaving behind a suitor, her parents and every certainty she’s ever known.

In 1911 Nuneaton, Holly Farthing refuses to marry the much older widower her grandfather has chosen. Cut off from his support, she heads to London, trains as a nurse and falls for kind Dr Parkin—until shattering news sends her to the battlefields of France in search of purpose.

After her mother’s murder and her father’s abandonment, Nessie Carson is determined to keep her younger siblings together. Working as live‑in assistants to an undertaker plunges them into a world of grief, where Nessie becomes entangled with her enigmatic employer and a kindly doctor she believes she can never have.

In the bitter winter of 1850, sixteen-year-old Opal Sharp and her siblings are orphaned and turned out of their tied cottage. Illness, the workhouse and a brother transported to Australia leave Opal clinging to one vow: somehow she will bring her scattered family back together.

Kathy has grown up at Treetops under Sunday and Tom Branning’s care, happiest on horseback and dreaming of nursing. Her foster sister Livvy wants fun instead of responsibility. When Tom dies suddenly and war looms, the family are forced from Treetops and into an uncertain future.

When fifteen-year-old Ruby Carter learns on her adoptive mother’s deathbed that she was not her real child, her world shatters. Fleeing a drunken, violent father, she falls under “kindly” Mrs Bamber’s control and is pushed into jewel theft while still yearning to find her true parents.

In 1870s London, poverty pushes Pearl and her little sister Eliza into the workhouse when their parents can no longer feed another baby. Offered a new life in Canada, they board an orphan ship—but the harsh crossing and strange country test Pearl’s courage and loyalty to the limit.

Emerald Winter’s comfortable life at Astley House ends when her father disappears, leaving crushing debts. Forced onto a reluctant uncle’s farm, Emerald heads to London as a companion while rebellious sister Abigail runs to Soho, and both must fight for survival and a chance to be reunited.

Growing up on a canal boat near Nuneaton, Saffie Doyle dreams of becoming a teacher, even as her father sinks into drink and debt working for crook Seth Black. When tragedy strikes on one of Seth’s “jobs,” Saffie is forced to hold her family together and rethink her future.

Whitby laundry maid Amber Ainsley falls pregnant by her employer Barnaby Greenwood and is cast out in disgrace. Persuaded to let a respectable couple raise her baby, she later returns to work for the Greenwoods—and suspects one fragile twin daughter might in fact be her own.

In 1875, siblings Esme and Gabriel lose both parents and are taken in by their cold vicar grandfather in rural Lincolnshire. When Gabriel is sent to boarding school, lonely Esme—who can see spirits—begins encountering the ghosts of young women haunting the rectory and must uncover their stories to save herself.

Blacksmith’s daughter Daisy Armstrong enjoys a close bond with her widowed father Jed until he falls for a demanding local widow. Overworked and humiliated in her own home, Daisy suffers a devastating ordeal that sends her away from Nuneaton to fight for survival and a second chance at happiness.

Lily Moon, a miner’s daughter, works as parlour maid at Oakley Manor and briefly as lady’s maid to pregnant Arabella Bellingham. When Arabella vanishes and Lily is left with her baby, she and her ailing mother raise the child themselves as Lily’s feelings for heir Louis Bellingham quietly grow.

Abandoned on the workhouse steps in 1904 Nuneaton, baby Annie is taken in by grieving Maggie Lilburn and her rag‑and‑bone man husband Levi. Raised more as servant than daughter, Annie leans on Levi and her foster brothers while quietly plotting a future that isn’t defined by rejection.

By 1914 Annie Lilburn has grown into a capable young woman helping run the family rag‑and‑bone business. Determined to do her bit when war is declared, she trains as a nurse and heads to France, where the horrors of the front and an unexpected romance test her courage.

The third Rags to Riches novel returns to Annie Lilburn in the uneasy peace after the First World War. As she tries to turn hard-won independence into lasting security and love, Annie must decide what she owes her complicated family—and what kind of life she truly wants.