Joanna Toye Books in Order

Joanna Toye has written 11 books, published between 1997 and 2022. The first book is The Best Of Breakfasts (1997) and the newest is Wedding Bells for the Victory Girls (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
1997–2022
Pages on record
1,939 in 6 of 11 books
Reading time
32–48 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,939 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

Joanna Toye has 11 books in the catalogue, published between 1997 and 2022. Several titles concern The Archers radio programme, among them The Archers 1951-1967: Family Ties (1998), The Archers Miscellany (2009) and The Archers: The Ambridge Chronicles (2013). Toye also writes the Marlow's Department Store series. A Store at War (2019), Christmas for the Shop Girls (2020) and The Victory Girls (2021) are later titles, and Wedding Bells for the Victory Girls (2022) is the newest.

How many Joanna Toye books are there?

Joanna Toye has 11 books, released between 1997 and 2022. 6 of them belong to the Marlow’s Department Store series.

Joanna Toye Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Joanna Toye 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
    The Best Of Breakfasts1997 · 147 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997147
  2. 2
    The Archers 1951-1967: Family Ties1998 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998320
  3. 3
    The Archers 1968-1986: Looking for Love1999 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999320
  4. 4
    The Archers Miscellany2009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009
  5. 52013
  6. 6
    A Store at WarMarlow’s Department Store #12019 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019400
  7. 7
    Wartime for the Shop GirlsMarlow’s Department Store #22019 · confirmed 2/4
    2019
  8. 8
    Heartache for the Shop GirlsMarlow’s Department Store #32020 · confirmed 2/4
    2020
  9. 9
    Christmas for the Shop GirlsMarlow’s Department Store #42020 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020400
  10. 10
    The Victory GirlsMarlow’s Department Store #52021 · confirmed 2/4
    2021
  11. 11
    Wedding Bells for the Victory GirlsMarlow’s Department Store #62022 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2022352

Joanna Toye 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.

Marlow’s Department Store in order

6 books
  1. 1. A Store at War
  2. 2. Wartime for the Shop Girls
  3. 3. Heartache for the Shop Girls
  4. 4. Christmas for the Shop Girls
  5. 5. The Victory Girls
  6. 6. Wedding Bells for the Victory Girls

Standalone books

5 books

5 Joanna Toye titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Joanna Toye books in order?

You only need to read Joanna Toye books in order within the Marlow’s Department Store series, which holds 6 of the 11 Joanna Toye books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Joanna Toye

Start with The Best Of Breakfasts (1997), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Joanna Toye book?

Wedding Bells for the Victory Girls (2022) is the newest Joanna Toye book released so far.

Is there a new Joanna Toye book coming?

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

Joanna Toye at a glance

Paused
No new Joanna Toye title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Joanna Toye books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,939 pages across the 6 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 336 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Joanna Toye books, 4 of 11, were published in the 2020s.

What the Joanna Toye books are about

9 of the 11 Joanna Toye books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: english literature is tagged on 4 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • English literature 4 of 9 books
  • Archer family (Fictitious characters) 2 of 9 books
  • Archers (Radio program) 2 of 9 books