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Emma Kennedy Books in Order

Emma Kennedy has written 12 books, published between 2007 and 2022. The first book is How To Bring Up Your Parents (2007) and the newest is Letters From Brenda (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
2007–2022
Pages on record
1,856 in 5 of 12 books
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Photo of Emma Kennedy, author of the Wilma Tenderfoot series

Emma Kennedy, born Elizabeth Emma Williams on 28 May 1967, is English/Irish and has worked as a comedian, actress, lawyer, television presenter and travel writer as well as an author. The catalogue lists 12 books from How To Bring Up Your Parents (2007) to Letters From Brenda (2022), and Wilma Tenderfoot is the series on record. The Tent, the Bucket and Me (2009), Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Putrid Poison (2010), I Left My Tent in San Francisco (2011) and The Things We Left Unsaid (2019) are other titles. Recorded subjects include children's fiction, orphans, beagles and the Second World War.

How many Emma Kennedy books are there?

Emma Kennedy has 12 books, released between 2007 and 2022. 4 of them belong to the Wilma Tenderfoot series.

Emma Kennedy Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 Emma Kennedy 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 Tent, the Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy (2009)
  2. Cover of Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Putrid Poison by Emma Kennedy, book 2 of the Wilma Tenderfoot series (2010)
  3. Cover of Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Fatal Phantom by Emma Kennedy, book 3 of the Wilma Tenderfoot series (2010)
  4. Cover of I Left My Tent in San Francisco by Emma Kennedy (2011)
  5. Cover of The Killing Handbook by Emma Kennedy (2012)
  6. Cover of Shoes for Anthony by Emma Kennedy (2017)
  7. Cover of Letters From Brenda by Emma Kennedy (2022)
  1. 1
    How To Bring Up Your Parents2007 · confirmed 1/4
    2007–
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  2. 2
    The Case of the Frozen HeartsWilma Tenderfoot #12009 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009368
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  3. 3
    The Tent, the Bucket and Me2009 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2009352
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Putrid PoisonWilma Tenderfoot #22010 · confirmed 1/4
    2010–
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  5. 5
    Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Fatal PhantomWilma Tenderfoot #32010 · confirmed 1/4
    2010–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    I Left My Tent in San Francisco2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Rascal's RevengeWilma Tenderfoot #42011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    The Killing Handbook2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Shoes for Anthony2017 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017400
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    The Things We Left Unsaid2019 · 416 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019416
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    The Never-Ending Summer / The Trip of a Lifetime2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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  12. 12
    Letters From Brenda2022 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2022320
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Emma Kennedy 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.

Wilma Tenderfoot in order

4 books
  1. 1. The Case of the Frozen Hearts
  2. 2. Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Putrid Poison
  3. 3. Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Fatal Phantom
  4. 4. Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Rascal's Revenge

Standalone books

8 books

8 Emma Kennedy titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Emma Kennedy books in order?

You only need to read Emma Kennedy books in order within the Wilma Tenderfoot series, which holds 4 of the 12 Emma Kennedy books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Emma Kennedy

Start with How To Bring Up Your Parents (2007), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Emma Kennedy book?

Letters From Brenda (2022) is the newest Emma Kennedy book released so far.

Is there a new Emma Kennedy book coming?

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

Emma Kennedy at a glance

Paused
No new Emma Kennedy title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Emma Kennedy books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,856 pages across the 5 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 368 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Emma Kennedy books, 7 of 12, were published in the 2010s.

What the Emma Kennedy books are about

8 of the 12 Emma Kennedy books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 2 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.