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Diney Costeloe Books in Order

Diney Costeloe has written 27 books, published between 1981 and 2024. The first book is The Slopes of Love (As: Diney Delancey) (1981) and the newest is The Girls Who Dared to Love (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
27
Published
1981–2024
Pages on record
3,306 in 11 of 27 books
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Diney Costeloe writes historical fiction and romance, much of it around the Second World War, Jewish families, widows and siblings. Costeloe trained as a primary school teacher and published her first novel, The Slopes of Love (1981), with Robert Hale after a BBC Woman's Hour shortlisting; early titles appeared under the name Diney Delancey. Her 27 catalogued books reach The Girls Who Dared to Love (2024), across the Throwaway Children, Girl With No Name, Children of the Siege and Girls Who Dared series. Volumes median 296 pages.

How many Diney Costeloe books are there?

Diney Costeloe has 27 books, released between 1981 and 2024. They include 4 series and 19 titles listed outside any series.

Diney Costeloe Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 27 Diney Costeloe 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 The Slopes of Love (As: Diney Delancey) by Diney Costeloe (1981)
  2. Cover of The Secret of Shearwater (As: Diney Delancey) by Diney Costeloe (1982)
  3. Cover of Silverstrand (As: Diney Delancey) by Diney Costeloe (1983)
  4. Cover of Love Game (As: Diney Delancey) by Diney Costeloe (1986)
  5. Cover of A Chance of Happiness (As: Diney Delancey) by Diney Costeloe (2007)
  6. Cover of The Runaway Family / Evil on the Wind by Diney Costeloe (2009)
  7. Cover of The Married Girls by Diney Costeloe, book 2 of the Girl With No Name series (2017)
  8. Cover of Children of the Siege by Diney Costeloe, book 1 of the Children of the Siege series (2019)
  1. 1
    The Slopes of Love (As: Diney Delancey)1981 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981352
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  2. 2
    Love's Dawning (As: Diney Delancey)1982 · 296 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1982296
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  3. 3
    The Secret of Shearwater (As: Diney Delancey)1982 · 328 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1982328
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  4. 4
    Brave Heart (As: Diney Delancey)1983 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983160
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  5. 5
    Silverstrand (As: Diney Delancey)1983 · confirmed 1/4
    1983–
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  6. 6
    Love Game (As: Diney Delancey)1986 · 243 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986243
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  7. 7
    For Love of Oliver (As: Diney Delancey)1997 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997272
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  8. 8
    An Old-Fashioned Love (As: Diney Delancey)1998 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998272
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  9. 9
    The Lost Soldier / The Ashgrove / The Nurses of St Croix2000 · confirmed 1/4
    2000–
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  10. 10
    Kiss and Tell (As: Diney Delancey)2007 · confirmed 1/4
    2007–
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  11. 11
    A Chance of Happiness (As: Diney Delancey)2007 · 243 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007243
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  12. 12
    The Sisters of St Croix / Death's Dark Vale2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
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  13. 13
    The Runaway Family / Evil on the Wind2009 · 372 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009372
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  14. 14
    The New Neighbours / Dartmouth Circle2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  15. 15
    Kendal Black (As: Diney Delancey)2014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
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  16. 16
    A Dish Served Cold2014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
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  17. 17
    The Throwaway ChildrenThrowaway Children #12015 · confirmed 1/4
    2015–
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  18. 18
    The Girl With No NameGirl With No Name #12016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
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  19. 19
    Her Missing HusbandThrowaway Children #22016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
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  20. 20
    The Married GirlsGirl With No Name #22017 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017416
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  21. 21
    Miss Mary's Daughter2018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018–
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  22. 22
    Children of the SiegeChildren of the Siege #12019 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019352
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  23. 23
    The French WifeChildren of the Siege #22020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
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  24. 24
    The Lost Girl in Paris2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
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  25. 25
    The Stolen Baby2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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  26. 26
    The Girl Who Dared to DreamGirls Who Dared #12022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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  27. 27
    The Girls Who Dared to LoveGirls Who Dared #22024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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Diney Costeloe 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.

Throwaway Children in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Throwaway Children
  2. 2. Her Missing Husband

Girl With No Name in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Girl With No Name
  2. 2. The Married Girls

Children of the Siege in order

2 books
  1. 1. Children of the Siege
  2. 2. The French Wife

Girls Who Dared in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Girl Who Dared to Dream
  2. 2. The Girls Who Dared to Love

Standalone books

19 books

19 Diney Costeloe titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Diney Costeloe books in order?

You only need to read Diney Costeloe books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Diney Costeloe

Start with The Slopes of Love (As: Diney Delancey) (1981), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Diney Costeloe book?

The Girls Who Dared to Love (2024) is the newest Diney Costeloe book released so far.

Is there a new Diney Costeloe book coming?

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

Diney Costeloe at a glance

Still publishing
Diney Costeloe published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Diney Costeloe books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,306 pages across the 11 of 27 books with a recorded length, a median of 296 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Diney Costeloe books, 9 of 27, were published in the 2010s.

What the Diney Costeloe books are about

8 of the 27 Diney Costeloe books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: historical fiction is tagged on 3 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.