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Alice Taylor Books in Order

Alice Taylor has written 30 books, published between 1988 and 2023. The first book is To School Through the Fields (1988) and the newest is Ellie and The Fairy Door (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
30
Published
1988–2023
Pages on record
3,995 in 21 of 30 books
Reading time
67–100 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,995 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 21 of 30 titles with a page count on record.

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Alice Taylor writes about Irish country life. To School Through the Fields (1988) and Quench The Lamp (1990) recall a rural childhood, and the Mossgrove novels, The Woman of the House (1997) among them, turn the same setting into fiction. Christmas books, poetry and country miscellanies fill out 30 titles published between 1988 and 2023, the last of them Ellie and The Fairy Door. Irish social life and customs are the constant subject.

How many Alice Taylor books are there?

Alice Taylor has 30 books, released between 1988 and 2023. 3 of them belong to the Mossgrove series.

Alice Taylor Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 30 Alice Taylor books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Country Days by Alice Taylor (1988)
  2. Cover of Close to the Earth by Alice Taylor (1989)
  3. Cover of The Secrets Of The Oak by Alice Taylor (1991)
  4. Cover of An Irish Country Christmas by Alice Taylor (1994)
  5. Cover of Night Before Christmas by Alice Taylor (1994)
  6. Cover of Going to the Well by Alice Taylor (1998)
  7. Cover of A Country Miscellany by Alice Taylor (1998)
  8. Cover of House of Memories by Alice Taylor, book 3 of the Mossgrove series (2005)
  9. Cover of The Parish by Alice Taylor (2008)
  10. Cover of The Journey by Alice Taylor (2010)
  11. Cover of And Time Stood Still by Alice Taylor (2012)
  12. Cover of And Life Lights Up by Alice Taylor (2018)
  13. Cover of Ellie and The Fairy Door by Alice Taylor (2023)
  1. 1
    To School Through the Fields1988 · 183 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988183
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  2. 2
    Country Days1988 · 156 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988156
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  3. 3
    Close to the Earth1989 · 94 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198994
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  4. 4
    Quench The Lamp1990 · confirmed 1/4
    1990–
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  5. 5
    The Secrets Of The Oak1991 · 32 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199132
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  6. 6
    An Irish Country Christmas1994 · 134 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994134
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  7. 7
    Night Before Christmas1994 · 153 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994153
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  8. 8
    The Woman of the HouseMossgrove #11997 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997320
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  9. 9
    Going to the Well1998 · 89 pages · confirmed 1/4
    199889
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  10. 10
    A Country Miscellany1998 · 124 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998124
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  11. 11
    Irish Country Diary1999 · 138 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999138
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  12. 12
    Across the RiverMossgrove #22000 · confirmed 1/4
    2000–
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  13. 13
    A Fallen Leaf2004 · confirmed 1/4
    2004–
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  14. 14
    House of MemoriesMossgrove #32005 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005288
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  15. 15
    The Parish2008 · 221 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2008221
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  16. 16
    The Journey2010 · 194 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010194
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  17. 17
    The Village2010 · confirmed 1/4
    2010–
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  18. 18
    The Grief Road2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
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  19. 19
    And Time Stood Still2012 · 189 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012189
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  20. 20
    The Gift of a Garden2013 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013272
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  21. 21
    Do You Remember?2014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
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  22. 22
    The Women2015 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015208
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  23. 23
    The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124 - 12902016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
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  24. 24
    Tea and Talk2017 · confirmed 1/4
    2017–
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  25. 25
    Home For Christmas2017 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017256
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  26. 26
    And Life Lights Up2018 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018208
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  27. 27
    As Time Goes by2019 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019240
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  28. 28
    Books from the Attic2020 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020256
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  29. 29
    Tea for One2021 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021240
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  30. 30
    Ellie and The Fairy Door2023 · confirmed 1/4
    2023–
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Alice Taylor books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Mossgrove in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Woman of the House
  2. 2. Across the River
  3. 3. House of Memories

Standalone books

27 books

27 Alice Taylor titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Alice Taylor books in order?

You only need to read Alice Taylor books in order within the Mossgrove series, which holds 3 of the 30 Alice Taylor books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Alice Taylor

Start with To School Through the Fields (1988), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Alice Taylor book?

Ellie and The Fairy Door (2023) is the newest Alice Taylor book released so far.

Is there a new Alice Taylor book coming?

No next Alice Taylor book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Alice Taylor at a glance

Paused
No new Alice Taylor title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Alice Taylor books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,995 pages across the 21 of 30 books with a recorded length, a median of 194 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Alice Taylor books, 12 of 30, were published in the 2010s.

What the Alice Taylor books are about

24 of the 30 Alice Taylor books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: social life and customs is tagged on 9 of 24. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • Social life and customs 9 of 24 books
  • Country life 8 of 24 books
  • Ireland, social life and customs 7 of 24 books
  • Country life, ireland 5 of 24 books
  • History 5 of 24 books
  • Homes and haunts 5 of 24 books
  • Childhood and youth 3 of 24 books
  • Christmas 3 of 24 books
  • Ireland 3 of 24 books
  • Ireland, biography 3 of 24 books
  • Ireland, social conditions 2 of 24 books
  • Irish authors 2 of 24 books