Gill Hornby Books in Order
Gill Hornby has written 8 books, published between 2005 and 2025. The first book is Jane Austen: The Girl with the Magic Pen (2005) and the newest is The Elopement (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 2005–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,768 in 7 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 29–44 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,768 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Jane Austen runs through much of Gill Hornby's work: a children's biography, Jane Austen: The Girl with the Magic Pen (2005), then The Story of Jane Austen (2017) and the novels Miss Austen (2020), Godmersham Park (2022) and The Elopement (2025). Hornby also wrote a life of Mozart for young readers and two novels set around schools and communities, The Hive (2013) and All Together Now (2015). The catalogue holds 8 titles.
How many Gill Hornby books are there?
Gill Hornby has 8 books, released between 2005 and 2025. 2 of them belong to the Who Was... series.
Gill Hornby Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Gill Hornby 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.
- 120051602/4
- 22006962/4
- 3The Hive2013 · 368 pages · confirmed 2/420133682/4
- 4All Together Now2015 · 328 pages · confirmed 2/420153282/4
- 5The Story of Jane Austen2017 · 112 pages · confirmed 2/420171122/4
- 6Miss Austen2020 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/420202882/4
- 7Godmersham Park2022 · 416 pages · confirmed 2/420224162/4
- 8The Elopement2025 · confirmed 2/42025–2/4
Gill Hornby series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Who Was... books in order 2 books
Gill Hornby 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.
Standalone books
6 books6 Gill Hornby titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Gill Hornby books in order?
You only need to read Gill Hornby books in order within the Who Was... series, which holds 2 of the 8 Gill Hornby books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Gill Hornby
Start with Jane Austen: The Girl with the Magic Pen (2005), the first Who Was... book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Gill Hornby book?
The Elopement (2025) is the newest Gill Hornby book released so far.
Is there a new Gill Hornby book coming?
No next Gill Hornby book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Gill Hornby at a glance
- Still publishing
- Gill Hornby published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Gill Hornby books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
- Length
- 1,768 pages across the 7 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 288 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Gill Hornby books, 3 of 8, were published in the 2020s.
What the Gill Hornby books are about
4 of the 8 Gill Hornby books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: juvenile literature is tagged on 2 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Juvenile literature 2 of 4 books
- Austen, jane, 1775-1817 1 of 4 books
- Authors 1 of 4 books
- Authors, juvenile literature 1 of 4 books
- Biography 1 of 4 books
- Choirs (Music) 1 of 4 books
- Communities 1 of 4 books
- Competitions 1 of 4 books
- Composers 1 of 4 books
- Death 1 of 4 books
- Novelists 1 of 4 books
- English Women novelists 1 of 4 books