Rosie Thomas Books in Order

Rising wine writer Bell Farrer thinks she is simply comparing old world and new when she profiles two rival vineyard owners, brooding French aristocrat Charles de Gillesmont and inventive Californian Valentine Gordon. Drawn into their long running feud and attraction, Bell must decide which man, and which life, her heart truly wants.

In this edition of Bell Farrer's story, retitled for American readers, the young journalist shuttles between a Bordeaux chateau and a cutting edge Californian winery. As her work turns into a love triangle with two powerful winemakers, Bell has to trust her own judgment rather than anyone else's idea of the right match.

At Oxford in the 1970s, three very different women, Helen, Chloe and Pansy, share a heady year of friendship, ambition and first love. As life pulls them apart into careers, marriages and compromises, they discover how the choices of that one intense season echo through the rest of their lives.

Angharad Owain grows up in a close knit Welsh community where her father's hatred of the wealthy Cotton family is absolute. When she falls in love with Harry Cotton and a shattering revelation drives her to London, Angharad must build a new life while deciding whether first love can survive betrayal and time.

In Massachusetts, English expatriate Dinah Steward appears to have everything, from a successful husband to two adored sons. A chance meeting rips the cover off a secret she and her husband buried years before, forcing Dinah to risk her marriage, her children and her hard won stability to reclaim what she once lost.

Restless aristocrat Amy Lovell is tired of London parties and empty privilege when a miners' rally introduces her to Nick Penry, a principled Welsh union man. Their impossible love carries Amy from nursing on the home front to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, where politics and passion collide in dangerous ways.

Annie, a married mother, and Steve, a wealthy executive, are thrown together when a bomb explodes during an ordinary shopping trip. Trapped in the rubble, they talk through their separate lives and disappointments, forging an intense bond that leaves them questioning what, and who, they can return to when the light finally breaks.

In 1950s London, best friends Julia and Mattie run away from stifling homes into the smoky clubs and promise of Soho. Over three turbulent decades one becomes a famous actress and the other a country lady and shop owner, but their fierce bond keeps colliding with love affairs, class barriers and old hurts.

Harriet Peacock turns a broken marriage into opportunity, building a fortune by marketing a clever board game invented by a damaged former prisoner of war. As she juggles a string of lovers, ruthless rivals and her own unresolved past, Harriet has to decide what success really means and what it will cost.

Clio Hirsh and her cousin Lady Grace Stretton grow up like sisters in an affluent Edwardian family, then take starkly different paths through two world wars. Decades later, as Clio tells their story to a biographer, long buried betrayals, political choices and a devastating secret about Grace finally come into focus.

In a pleasant cathedral city, five long standing couples share school runs, barbecues and holidays, certain they know one another inside out. The arrival of glamorous, newly widowed Nina Cort exposes the strains beneath their comfortable routines, upending friendships and forcing each marriage to face the truths it has carefully avoided.

After her teenage son dies in a drink driving crash, Jess Arrowsmith is left reeling with guilt and grief. The one person who understands her loss is Rob, the young man she blames, and their forbidden relationship forces Jess to choose between desire, loyalty and the family she is trying to hold together.

Part travel memoir and part rally diary, Border Crossing follows Thomas's journey in a vintage car on the re-created Peking to Paris race. She records gruelling roads, rough camp sites and flea ridden hotels, the camaraderie of fellow drivers and a near fatal Himalayan accident that reshapes how she sees risk and home.

Teenager May Duhane arrives resentfully at a row of weathered beach houses on a remote stretch of coast. As she befriends an unhappy young wife and an elderly widow, and discovers the diary of a girl who died there years before, May uncovers secrets that blur the line between past and present.

Drawn by a fleeting encounter, businessman Sam McGrath impulsively follows climber Finch Buchanan to join an Everest expedition. On the mountain he is caught in a charged triangle between Finch and veteran mountaineer Al Hood, where obsession, altitude and unforgiving weather push love and ambition to breaking point.

Olivia Giorgiadis has traded England for a quiet life on a small Greek island with her husband and young sons. After an earthquake and tidal wave tear the community apart, Olivia shelters a mysterious Englishwoman in the potter's house, then slowly realises that her guest could cost her everything she loves.

Sadie believes she has rebuilt her life after divorce, with a close circle of friends and a teenage son she adores. When her charismatic perfumer father lies dying, old wounds open and a mysterious woman from his past stirs up secrets that threaten both Sadie's memories and her fragile new happiness.

Alice Peel, an Oxford geologist whose neat life has just fallen apart, escapes by joining a research station in Antarctica. Among ten strangers in a lethal, beautiful landscape, she is drawn to the guarded James Rooker and forced to decide what risk she is willing to take to feel alive.

Composer Constance Thorne has built an enviable life in sunlit Bali, far from the London family that never quite felt like hers. Summoned home when her deaf older sister is dying, she must finally face her adoption, a forbidden love and the tangled loyalties that have defined her since childhood.

Rebellious teenager Ruby flees England to her grandmother Iris's fading villa on the edge of Cairo. As Ruby records Iris's memories of glittering wartime Egypt and a lost lover, both women are forced to confront buried grief, strained family ties and how much of the past still shapes their futures.

In middle age, widow Miranda Meadowe invites old university friends to share her crumbling country house and reinvent how they grow old. As relationships are rekindled, tested and quietly undone, a buried Iron Age grave forces the little community to face change, compromise and the limits of nostalgia.

After clearing her late father's house, Mair Ellis finds a fine Kashmir shawl with a lock of a child's hair folded inside. Her search for their origins takes her from rural Wales to wartime Srinagar, uncovering her grandmother's secret life and a love story woven into the troubled history of the valley.

London in 1870 is harsh for a young woman like Eliza Dunlop, until she falls in with charismatic showman Devil Wix and his band of illusionists at the ramshackle Palmyra theatre. As dangerous tricks, hidden pasts and fierce ambitions collide, Eliza fights for love and an equal place on and off the stage.

An in depth history of Bombay cinema that looks past classic social dramas to the fantasy, stunt and costume films beloved on the city's cheaper circuits. Thomas traces these vivid B movies and their stars to show how they shaped the masala films that led into the era now known as Bollywood.

Born into the ragged glamour of the Palmyra theatre, Nancy Wix discovers she can see things other people cannot. As war and spiritualism sweep London, she must decide whether to use her uncanny talents for survival, love and independence, or let others exploit the future she alone can glimpse.