Sue Roberts Books in Order

If you want sunny Greek escapes: My Big Greek Summer → As Greek as It Gets → Some Like it Greek → Going Greek.
If you prefer Italy and France: My Very Italian Holiday → You, Me and Italy → A Very French Affair.
If you like later Greek standalones: Greece Actually → What Happens in Greece → The Greek Villa → Not My Greek Wedding.
If you want cozy festive reads: The Village Christmas Party → Home This Christmas.
If you want community drama: The Last Dinner at Wisteria House.

Sue Roberts was born in Liverpool and moved to Lancashire as a teenager. She has lived in Lancashire ever since, with her long-term partner Derek, and her family has stayed central to her life.

Her writing itch showed up early. At 11, she won a school writing competition, a small but sticky bit of encouragement for a child who already liked making stories.

Then life got busy.

Roberts raised a busy household, worked, and kept the thought of a novel tucked away for one day. The timing shifted after her daughters had left home. During a holiday in a Greek village, the idea that had been waiting in the background suddenly felt possible. Her visits to Rhodes helped shape the book that became My Big Greek Summer.

That first novel arrived in 2018. It follows Mandy, whose marriage falls apart and who heads for a Greek island with a bruised heart and very little idea of what comes next. It also showed what Roberts would return to again and again: women at a turning point, warm communities, food, travel, friendship, and romance that grows while the heroine is figuring herself out.

The sunshine mattered, but so did the wobble underneath it.

Roberts followed with more holiday romances, including My Very Italian Holiday, You, Me and Italy, and A Very French Affair. Those books take readers from the Lake District to Lake Como, from Tuscany to the French Riviera, but the emotional engine is close to home: grief, betrayal, single parenthood, family secrets, and the question of whether it is too late to choose differently.

Greece has become her most familiar fictional territory. In books such as As Greek as It Gets, Some Like it Greek, Going Greek, Greece Actually, What Happens in Greece, Take a Chance on Greece, The Greek Villa, and Not My Greek Wedding, her heroines land on islands, walk into family chaos or romantic confusion, and find themselves pulled toward a slower, brighter life. The settings are part holiday dream and part pressure cooker. When you are far from home, it is harder to keep pretending everything is fine.

She has also written festive and community-based stories, including The Village Christmas Party, Home This Christmas, and The Last Dinner at Wisteria House. These books pull the camera closer, with village halls, baking contests, neighbours, lonely people, and the kind of shared meal that can change a room.

Roberts's books are easy to spot because they are built around fresh starts rather than perfect lives. Her characters are often ordinary women who have been knocked sideways by something painful, then nudged toward a place, a person, or a community that makes them ask better questions. The humour is gentle, the food usually sounds good, and the settings often make you want to check flight prices before the next chapter.

Away from writing, Roberts enjoys walking, cinema, travel, and time with her growing family. That mix shows up on the page. Her novels tend to understand that a happy ending is not just about finding love. Sometimes it is about finding your nerve, your people, and somewhere that finally feels like home.