Clare Chambers Books in Order

Clare Chambers has written 11 books, published between 1993 and 2024. The first book is Uncertain Terms (1993) and the newest is Shy Creatures (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
1993–2024
Pages on record
2,320 in 7 of 11 books
Reading time
39–58 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,320 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

Photo of Clare Chambers, author

Clare Chambers, born in 1966, is a British novelist who has worked across several genres. Learning to Swim took the Romantic Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 1999. The novels run from Uncertain Terms (1993) through Back Trouble (1994), A Dry Spell (2000), In A Good Light (2004), The Editor's Wife (2007), Bright Girls (2009) and Burning Secrets (2011), to Small Pleasures (2021) and Shy Creatures (2024). Recorded subjects include families, friendship, young women, and brothers and sisters.

How many Clare Chambers books are there?

Clare Chambers has 11 books, released between 1993 and 2024.

Clare Chambers Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Clare Chambers 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. 1
    Uncertain Terms1993 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1993208
  2. 2
    Back Trouble1994 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994224
  3. 3
    Learning To Swim1998 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998384
  4. 4
    A Dry Spell2000 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000384
  5. 5
    In A Good Light2004 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004384
  6. 6
    The Editor's Wife2007 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007384
  7. 7
    Bright Girls2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009
  8. 8
    Burning Secrets2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011
  9. 9
    Small Pleasures2021 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021352
  10. 10
    The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and SexualityRoutledge Handbooks in Philosophy #652022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022
  11. 11
    Shy Creatures2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024

Clare Chambers 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.

Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy in order

1 book
  1. 65. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality

Standalone books

10 books

10 Clare Chambers titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Clare Chambers books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 11 Clare Chambers books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Clare Chambers

Start with Uncertain Terms (1993), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Clare Chambers book?

Shy Creatures (2024) is the newest Clare Chambers book released so far.

Is there a new Clare Chambers book coming?

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

Awards Clare Chambers has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Clare Chambers. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Romantic Novelists' Association Awards1999Won

Clare Chambers at a glance

Still publishing
Clare Chambers published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Clare Chambers books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
2,320 pages across the 7 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 384 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Clare Chambers books, 4 of 11, were published in the 2000s.

What the Clare Chambers books are about

8 of the 11 Clare Chambers books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: interpersonal relations is tagged on 2 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.