Authors whose first name starts with J, page 12 of 13

Josephine Tey wrote detective fiction in the English traditional mode, with Inspector Alan Grant investigating across most of the novels. The Man in the Queue (1929), also published as Killer in the Crowd, introduces Grant, and A Shilling for Candles follows. Tey also wrote plays as Gordon Daviot, among them Richard of Bordeaux and Claverhouse, and the novel Kif: An Unvarnished History (1929). Nineteen titles make up the catalogue, which is complete.

Josh Lanyon writes mysteries about gay men, with subject headings naming gay couples, murder investigation, erotic romance, blues musicians and extortion. The catalogue holds 106 books from 2007 to 2026. Boy Meets Body, Old Poison, The Dark Horse, Snowball In Hell and I'll Be Dead For Christmas all date from 2007, and Death of a Pirate King, Dangerous Ground, Hostage and Mexican Heat from 2008. Series include Adrien English Mysteries, Holmes & Moriarity, All's Fair, Dangerous Ground, In A Dark Wood, Doyle and Spain, XOXO Files, Secrets and Scrabble and Haunted Heart. The 12 Days Ultimatum (2026) is the newest.

Josh Malerman

18 books• 2 series

Josh Malerman is an American horror novelist who also works as a songwriter, film director and producer and cartoonist, and plays rhythm guitar in the rock band The High Strung. The post-apocalyptic novel Bird Box (2014) inspired the Netflix film of the same name. In 2020 Malerman founded the production company Spin a Black Yarn with manager Ryan Lewis. The catalogue counts 18 books through Pictures of You (2026), including Black Mad Wheel, Unbury Carol, Inspection and Malorie, and lists the Bird Box series.

Family secrets in the American South are Joshilyn Jackson's material: mothers and daughters, buried crimes, and the humour that sits beside them. Gods in Alabama (2005) opens the catalogue, followed by Between, Georgia (2006), Backseat Saints (2010), The Almost Sisters (2017) and Never Have I Ever (2019). Thirteen titles run to Missing Sister in 2026, at 328 pages on median.

Joshua Dalzelle writes science fiction built on human-alien encounters, space colonies and imaginary wars. Omega Force is his first sequence, opening with Omega Rising (2013), and Terran Scout Fleet, the Black Fleet Trilogy, the Expansion Wars Trilogy, the Unification War Trilogy and Gates of Babylon follow it. Thirty-eight books reach Killshot (2026), and Dalzelle is still publishing.

Joshua Hood writes military thrillers, with subjects that include special operations, terrorism and the Islamic State. The catalogue lists 6 books: Clear by Fire (2015), Warning Order (2016), The Treadstone Transgression (2022), The Guardian (2023), The Treadstone Rendition (2023) and Burn Out (2024). Hood's series is Search and Destroy.

Joshua James has 72 books in the catalogue, published between 2017 and 2026. Lucky Universe (2017) is the first listed title, followed in 2018 by Lucky Empire, Lucky Forever, Lucky Invasion, Lucky Legacy, Lucky Revenge and Lucky Shot. Series lines include Lucky's Marines, Lucky's Mercs, Oblivion, Outcast Starship, Gunn and Salvo, Stars Dark, Saturn's Legacy, Legacy of War, Heritage of War, Heartland Aliens, ENIGMA Files and Alien Legacy. Reprisal (2026) is the newest title.

Joshua Moehling's catalogue holds 4 books, all of them in the Ben Packard series: And There He Kept Her (2022), Where the Dead Sleep (2023), A Long Time Gone (2025) and Beneath a Broken Sky (2026). Moehling remains actively publishing, with a new title as recently as 2026.

Joshua T. Calvert is a German author of science fiction, thriller and fantasy novels. The catalogue holds 45 books published between 2021 and 2026, organised into the Hyperspace War, Last Fleet, Meteor, Ganymede Rising, Secrets Of Mars, Stolen Future, Teleport, Last Battleship and Artifact series. Ganymede Wakes, Ganymede Rises and Ganymede Whispers all appeared in 2021, alongside The Fossil and its two sequels, The Signal and The Wall: Eternal Night. Teleport and The Arrival followed in 2022, and Singularity is dated 2026.

Josi S. Kilpack, born May 26, 1974, is an American novelist whose work includes a 13-book culinary mystery series. Kilpack has won a Whitney Award from LDStorymakers, a guild for authors who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a Best of State award for fiction in Utah. The catalogue lists 45 books from Earning Eternity (2000) to A Lady's Wager (2023), with titles such as English Trifle (2009) and Lemon Tart (2009). Series include A Proper Romance and the Mayfield Family. Subjects include cooks, murder investigation, Sadie Hoffmiller, Mormons, single mothers, weddings and Regency romance.

Josie Jade is the author of the Princes of Fairytale, CO series. The catalogue lists 4 books: Cooper (2026), Lark's Song (2026) and Travis (2026), with Beau scheduled for 2027. All of Josie Jade's catalogued titles date from 2026 onward.

Josie Silver writes contemporary romance, and the 8 catalogued books run from One Day in December (2018) to Merry Spooky Love (2026). The Two Lives of Lydia Bird (2020), One Night on the Island (2022) and A Winter in New York (2023) came next, followed in 2025 by Crazy Spooky Love, Kooky Spooky Love and Slow Burn Summer. Silver's series is Melody Bittersweet. Best friends, bus stops and journalists appear among the subjects.

Joss Wood writes contemporary romance, with catalogue subjects that include billionaires, workplace romance and romantic suspense. The 79 books run from She's So Over Him (2012) to For Business...or Pleasure (2026), and Hot Ghoul Summer is scheduled for 2027. Series include Ballantyne Billionaires, Love in Boston, Murphy International, Cape Town Tycoons, Pytheon Security and Halloween Town.

Joy Deja King writes urban fiction: street life, money and revenge, with African American women and families across the subjects. The Bitch series opens the catalogue with Bitch: The Beginning (2006) and runs through Bitch Reloaded (2007), Queen Bitch (2008) and Last Bitch Standing (2009); Stackin' Paper, Female Hustler, Mafia Princess, Ride Wit' Me and Rich or Famous follow. Seventy-two books are catalogued, reaching Buried But Breathing in 2025.

Joy Ellis writes British police procedurals built on detective pairings: DI Nikki Galena with DS Joe Easter, DI Rowan Jackman with DS Maria Evans, plus the Detective Matt Ballard and Ellie McEwan series. Many titles place their cases on the Fens, among them Crime on the Fens (2010), Hunted on the Fens (2014), Killer on the Fens (2016) and Buried on the Fens (2017). The catalogue holds 39 books and reaches The House of Mystery in 2026.

Joy Fielding

48 books• 1 series

Joy Fielding is a Canadian novelist and actress who writes psychological suspense. Her 48 catalogued books begin with The Transformation (1967) and reach Jenny Cooper Has a Secret (2025), with See Jane Run (1991) and Tell Me No Secrets (1993) among the earlier titles. Recurring subjects include mothers and daughters, deception, adultery and women sleuths. Fielding lives in Toronto and is actively publishing.

Joyce & Jim Lavene is a writing partnership credited with 67 books between 1999 and 2016, the catalogue opening with A Time for Love (1999). Subjects include mystery and detective fiction, murder investigation, sheriffs and North Carolina. Mystery series by Joyce & Jim Lavene include Sharyn Howard, Peggy Lee Garden Mysteries, A Renaissance Faire Mystery, Missing Pieces Mystery, Retired Witches Mysteries, Pie Shop Mysteries and Pet Psychic Mystery. Romance also appears among the subjects, and a non-fiction line sits alongside the novels. Putting on the Witch (2016) is the newest title, and the catalogue is marked likely complete.

Joyce Carol Oates

180 books• 8 series

Joyce Carol Oates, born June 16, 1938, is an American writer of novels, short stories, poetry, plays and nonfiction. The catalogue holds 180 books, beginning with By the North Gate (1963) and reaching The Frenzy: Stories (2026). Oates took the National Book Award for the novel Them (1969), and later honours include two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize in 2019. Black Water, What I Lived For, Blonde and the collection Lovely, Dark, Deep were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014.

Joyce Lionarons writes medieval mysteries across two series: A Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mystery and Gavin Rownt Medieval Mystery. Thirty books have appeared since 2018, six of them in that first year alone, among them The Golden Crucifix, Blood Libel, Corpus Christi Day, Dark Justice, The King's Ditch and The White Rose. A Parcel of Rogues and A Relic of Saint Cedd followed in 2019, and Destroying Angels arrived in 2026.

Joyce Maynard

22 books

Joyce Maynard writes memoir and fiction about mothers, fathers and daughters, and lives altered by a single event. The catalogue opens with Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties (1973), then Baby Love (1981), Camp-Out (1985), Domestic Affairs (1987), New House (1987) and To Die For (1992). 22 titles are catalogued in all, the newest being In Wonderland.

Joyce Tremel writes mysteries set in Pittsburgh. The Brewing Trouble books put a woman brewer at the centre, from To Brew or Not to Brew (2015) through Tangled Up in Brew (2016) and A Room With a Brew (2017). A Homefront News Mystery follows in 2022 with Death on a Deadline and Front Page Murder, and A Cider House Mystery brings Deadly to the Core (2024). 6 catalogued books span 2015 to 2024, and murder, investigation and cats fill the subjects.

JT Sawyer writes survival, black-ops and post-apocalyptic thrillers. Fifty catalogued books run from First Wave (2014) to Lethal Pursuit (2026), divided among Mitch Kearns Combat Tracker, Cal Shepard Black-Ops, Kyle Payne Thrillers, Carlie Simmons, Nate Hendrix Survival Thriller, Emergence, Horror from Below and SEALs vs. Zombies. Sawyer remains in active publication.

Juan Gomez-Jurado

34 books• 6 series

Juan Gomez-Jurado writes thrillers and crime fiction. Born in Madrid in 1977, Gomez-Jurado worked across Spanish radio, television and newspapers, among them Cadena Ser, Canal+ and ABC, before the debut novel God's Spy (Espia de Dios) appeared in 2006; the books have since been translated into 42 languages. Six series carry the name: Antonia Scott, Padre Anthony Fowler, Todo arde, Amanda Black, Herederos and El paciente. Red Queen (2018) and Black Wolf (2019) fall in the middle of a catalogue of 34 titles that reaches Mentira (2026). The Vatican, murder investigation and crime recur as subjects.

Jude Deveraux

78 books• 14 series

Historical and contemporary romance make up Jude Deveraux's 78 catalogued books, many following the Montgomery and Taggert families across generations. Edilean, James River, Summerhouse, Nantucket Brides, Peregrine, Providence Falls and the Medlar Mystery books are among her series. The catalogue begins with The Enchanted Land (1978), runs densest through the 1980s, and reaches Order of Royals in 2026.

Judith Cutler writes crime fiction almost entirely in series, most of it set in and around Birmingham in the present day. Sophie Rivers, a lecturer who investigates as an amateur, carries ten books; Detective Sergeant Kate Power six; the antique restorer Lina Townend six; and Detective Superintendent Fran Harman five. Further sequences follow Harriet & Matthew Rowsley, Tobias Campion and Josie Welford. Fifty-five titles are catalogued, from Dying Fall (1995) to The Mystery of the Seaside Treasure (2026).

Judith Flanders is a historian, journalist and author based in London, born in 1959, and the Victorian period is the centre of the work. The Victorian House (2003), Consuming Passions (2006), The Invention of Murder (2011), The Victorian City (2012), The Making of Home (2014) and Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain (2024) carry the history; Sam Clair, a book editor, is the detective of a parallel mystery series that opens with A Murder of Magpies (2014). Fifteen titles are catalogued from A Circle of Sisters (2001) onward.

Judith Keim writes romance. The catalogue opens with Breakfast at the Beach House Hotel (2015) and counts 60 books up to Christmas In The Presidential Suite (2026), and 4th of July In The Presidential Suite is due in 2027. Beach House Hotel, Lilac Lake Inn, Seashell Cottage, Hartwell Women, Salty Key Inn, Desert Sage Inn, Chandler Hill Inn and Sanderling Cove Inn are among the series.

Judith Kelman's catalogue is psychological suspense. Her 18 books run from Prime Evil (1986) to The First Stone (2007) and include Hush Little Darlings (1989), Someone's Watching (1991), If I Should Die (1993) and One Last Kiss (1994). Sara Spooner is the one named series. Subject headings cover serial murders, false imprisonment, physicians and espionage thrillers.

Judith Krantz (1928-2019) worked as a magazine writer and fashion editor before publishing Scruples in 1978, a novel of Beverly Hills high fashion that topped the New York Times list and was translated into 50 languages. Scruples helped define the sex-and-shopping novel. Dazzle (1990), Princess Daisy (1980), Spring Collection (1996), Mistral's Daughter (1982) and Till We Meet Again (1988) kept to wealth, fashion and the film industry. Eleven catalogued books close with Sex and Shopping in 2000, and the volumes are long, at a median of 536 pages.

Judith McNaught writes romance in two registers, historical and contemporary. The named sequences are the Westmoreland Saga, the Foster Saga and Second Opportunities, with standalone novels beside them. McNaught's 18 catalogued books run from Tender Triumph (1983) through Whitney, My Love (1985), A Kingdom of Dreams (1989), Paradise (1991) and Perfect (1993) to The Sweetest Thing, and the catalogue is listed as likely complete.

Judith Michael is the shared name of a husband-and-wife writing team, Judith Barnard and Michael Fain. Eleven books carry it, from Deceptions (1982) to The Real Mother (2005), with Possessions (1984), Private Affairs (1986), Inheritance (1988), Ruling Passion (1990), Acts of Love (1991), Sleeping Beauty (1991), Pot of Gold (1993), A Tangled Web (1994) and A Certain Smile (1999) filling the rest. Twins, sisters, marriage, impostors and the theatre recur as subjects, in long books at a median of 528 pages. Nothing new has appeared since 2005.

Judith Pella writes historical fiction, including Christian historical fiction and historical romance, with subject headings naming frontier and pioneer life, women pioneers, World War II, quilting, newspaper publishing, sisters, and mothers and daughters. The catalogue lists 15 books from Frontier Lady (1993) to Sister's Choice (2008) and marks the run likely complete. Stoner's Crossing (1994), Warrior's Song (1996), Blind Faith (1996), Texas Angel (1999), Heaven's Road (2000) and Written on the Wind (2002) are among them. Series are Texas Angel and Patchwork Circle, and Ribbons of Steel is a listed grouping.

Judy Blume

30 books• 7 series

Family life, siblings, friendship and growing up are Judy Blume's subjects, written largely for children and for readers around grades 3 to 5. Blume's 30 catalogued books begin with The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo (1969) and end with In the Unlikely Event (2015), the 1970s being the densest decade. The Fudge books, the Pain & The Great One books and the BFF titles form her series, alongside standalone novels, picture books and non-fiction.

Judy Corry is a romance author with 25 catalogued books. The earliest are Don't Forget Me and Meet Me There, both from 2017. The newest is Stay Here With Me (2026), and Broken By You is due in 2027. Named series are Ridgewater High, A Second Chance for the Rich and Famous, Eden Falls Academy and Kings of Eden Falls. Titles such as Kissing the Boy Next Door (2019) and The Billionaire Bachelor (2019) appear in the list.

Judy I. Lin is the author of the Book of Tea series, with 5 books listed from 2022 to 2025. A Magic Steeped in Poison (2022) comes first, followed by A Venom Dark and Sweet (2022). The catalogue also carries an Avatar Legends title, and City of Echoes (2025) is the newest entry. Subjects on the books include fantasy, magic, tea, contests and princesses.

Judy Leigh's catalogue holds 29 books published between 2018 and 2027, set in England. A Grand Old Time and The Age of Misadventure (2018) open the list, followed by Five French Hens (2019), Heading Over the Hill and The Old Girls' Network (2020) and Chasing the Sun (2021). The Morwenna Mutton Mysteries, Archie Darling and the Silver Ladies are the series lines, and A Body in Bordeaux is scheduled for 2027.

Jules Verne

93 books• 8 series

The Voyages Extraordinaires account for much of Jules Verne's catalogue of 93 books, translated from the French and running from The Pearl of Lima (1853) onward. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1864) and From the Earth to the Moon (1865) belong to the early stretch, with the Captain Nemo, Children of Captain Grant and Steam House books alongside. Imaginary voyages, sea stories and early science fiction supply the material.

Julia Alvarez

27 books• 2 series

Julia Alvarez is an American poet, novelist and essayist whose work returns to Dominican American families, migration and grief. The novels How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) and Yo! (1997) brought her international readership. Homecoming (1984) opens her poetry, Something to Declare (1998) collects autobiographical essays, and the Tia Lola stories are written for younger readers. Twenty-seven books reach Visitations (2026).

Julia Brannan writes historical fiction of the Jacobite era. Fourteen books are catalogued between 2015 and 2025, and both recorded series carry the same name: the Jacobite Chronicles and its accompanying stories. Mask Of Duplicity (2015) opens the run, followed by The Mask Revealed (2016), The Gathering Storm (2016), Pursuit of Princes (2017), The Storm Breaks (2017) and Tides of Fortune (2018). A set of character studies follows: The Whore's Tale: Sarah (2018), The Eccentric's Tale: Harriet (2019), The Ladies' Tale: Caroline & Philippa (2020) and The Baronet's Tale: Anthony Part II (2025). The books run long, at a median of 408 pages.

Julia Buckley writes mysteries with women sleuths, 28 catalogued books published between 2006 and 2026. The Dark Backward (2006) opens the catalogue, followed by Madeline Mann (2007), Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2008), The Ghosts of Lovely Women (2011), Counterplay (2012) and Ginevra Bond (2012). Series include the Writer's Apprentice Mysteries, Undercover Dish, the Hungarian Tea House books, Madeline Mann, Shakespeare's Bookshop and, as Veronica Bond, Dinner and a Murder. A Dark and Starlit Sea is the newest title.

Julia Chapman writes the Dales Detective mysteries, set in Yorkshire and built on private investigation in a rural English community. Every title follows one pattern: Date with Death (2017) opens the run, Date with Malice, Date with Mystery, Date with Poison and Date with Betrayal follow, and Date with Destiny (2025) is the most recent. Ten books span nine years. Murder, older people as victims and a woman sleuth are the recurring subjects.

Julia Connors writes the Boston Rebels and Hartmann Brothers series. Ice hockey supplies most of the titles, Center Ice, Fake Shot, The Trade Up, Cross-Checked, Goal Line and Penalty Play. Twelve books span 2022 to 2026, opening with four in 2022, and Reckless Secrets is scheduled for 2027.

Julia Donaldson

349 books• 14 series

Dame Julia Donaldson, born Julia Catherine Shields on 16 September 1948, is a British writer and playwright who served as Children's Laureate from 2011 to 2013. Rhyming stories for children made Donaldson's name, above all those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, such as The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Superworm. Donaldson first wrote songs for children's television; the lyrics of A Squash and a Squeeze became a picture book in 1993, and books have been the focus since. The catalogue carries 349 entries, from Tim's Bad Mood and Other Stories (1970) to The Tooth Fairy and the Crocodile (2026), including Tales from Acorn Wood, Princess Mirror-Belle and Zog.

Julia Glass

8 books

Julia Glass writes literary novels about families and their secrets. Three Junes (2002), her debut, won the National Book Award for Fiction, and The Whole World Over (2006) returns to the same Greenwich Village world and to several of its characters. Eight books are catalogued, running through I See You Everywhere (2008), The Widower's Tale, And the Dark Sacred Night (2014) and A House Among the Trees (2017) to Vigil Harbor (2022). Fathers and sons, sisters, artists and marital conflict are Glass's recurring subjects. No new title has been catalogued since 2022.

Julia Heaberlin writes thrillers, many of them set in Texas, about family secrets, missing persons, murder victims and the witnesses left behind. Seven books make up the catalogue: Playing Dead (2012), Lie Still (2013), Black-Eyed Susans (2015), Paper Ghosts (2018), We Are All the Same in the Dark (2020), Night Will Find You (2023) and Jane Bone, scheduled for 2027. Volumes median 352 pages, with roughly two years between them.

Julia Jarrett has 28 books in the catalogue, from Loving Callie (2020) to The Curveball (2026). Protecting Anna, Romancing Melanie and Serenading Reagan also appeared in 2020, and 2021 brought Falling Again, Falling Fast and Falling Forever. Series include Donnellys of Dogwood Cove, Dogwood Cove, Vancouver Tridents, Lucky Strike Lovers, Westmount Island Trilogy and Cedar Creek Thunder.

Julia Keller writes crime fiction, and her 18 catalogued books span 2008 to 2020. Bell Elkins is her recurring character, and the subject tags across the run name West Virginia, murder investigation, public prosecutors and women sleuths. Keller also wrote the Dark Intercept novels, standalone fiction and non-fiction, beginning with Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel (2008). Back Home (2020) is the most recent entry, and nothing has followed it.

Julia Kelly's fiction in the catalogue begins with Seduction in the Snow (2015) and reaches The Queen of Roses (2026). The Governess Was Wanton, The Governess Was Wicked and The Governess Was Wild all appeared in 2016, alongside The Wedding Week, and Changing the Play, Kiss Me at Midnight and The Look of Love followed in 2017. Ticket To Love, Matchmaker Of Edinburgh and Evelyne Redfern are the listed series. Romance, historical fiction, World War II and London appear among the subjects.

Julia Kent writes contemporary romance in which billionaires and mystery shopping recur as subjects. Shopping for a Billionaire, Shopping for a Highlander, Her Billionaires, Random, Obedient, Do-Over, On Hold, Love You Maine and Get What You Need divide the catalogue between them. Kent's 72 titles were published between 2012 and 2026, from Her Second Billionaire to Shopping for a Highlander's Baby, and run near 260 pages.

Julia London

68 books• 18 series

Julia London writes historical romance, Regency England, the Scottish highlands, nobility and marriage plots, with a contemporary strand beside it. The Rogues of Regent Street, the Highland Grooms, Desperate Debutantes, the Cabot Sisters, Secrets of Hadley Green, Lake Haven and Pine River are among her series. Sixty-seven catalogued books run from The Devil's Love (1998) to Rules for Aging and Larceny in 2026.

Julia Quinn

39 books• 12 series

Julia Quinn is the pen name of the American novelist Julie Pottinger, born January 12, 1970. Quinn writes historical romance set among the English nobility, and the catalogue holds 39 books from Dancing at Midnight (1995) through to titles dated 2026. Series include the Smythe-Smith Quartet, Bevelstoke, the Lyndon Sisters, the Two Dukes of Wyndham and the Bridgerton short stories. Quinn's novels have been translated into 41 languages and reached the New York Times bestseller list nineteen times, and the Bridgerton books became a Netflix television series of the same name. The Romance Writers of America inducted Quinn into its Hall of Fame.

Julia Seales has published 2 books, both in the Beatrice Steele series: A Most Agreeable Murder (2023) and A Terribly Nasty Business (2025). Two years separated the first from the second, and the series remains open.

Julia Spencer-Fleming writes a single mystery series, the Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne books, where the Episcopal Church and police work meet over murder and missing-person cases. Eleven catalogued titles run from In the Bleak Midwinter (2002) to At Midnight Comes the Cry in 2025, and Spencer-Fleming continues to publish.

Julia Whelan

3 books• 1 series

Julia Whelan is an American actress, audiobook narrator and novelist. Three books are catalogued: My Oxford Year (2018), Thank You for Listening (2022) and Casanova LLC (2025). The University of Oxford, women college students and self-realization appear among the subject headings. Whelan spent the 2006-07 academic year at Lincoln College, Oxford, and graduated from Middlebury College in 2008. As an actress she played Grace Manning in the television series Once and Again.

Julia Wolf writes contemporary romance across eleven series, including Savage U, Savage Academy and Savage Crew, the rock-band Sublime books, Mile High Billionaires and Kelly Ranch. Forty-two titles span 2018 to 2026, from One Day Guy, Fix Her Up and Want You Bad in her first year to Set It Right (2026). Wolf remains actively publishing.

Julian Barnes

33 books• 2 series

Julian Barnes is an English novelist, essayist and short story writer, born in 1946. Before the fiction came three years as a lexicographer on the Oxford English Dictionary supplement. Metroland (1980) is the first of 33 catalogued Barnes books, followed by Before She Met Me (1982) and Flaubert's Parrot (1984), which took the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and a Booker Prize shortlisting. The catalogue extends to Departure(s) in 2026 and holds historical fiction, travel writing and essays alongside the novels.

Julian May

50 books• 7 series

Julian Clare May (July 10, 1931 - October 17, 2017) was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's books, working under several pseudonyms as well. The Saga of Pliocene Exile, titled Saga of the Exiles in the United Kingdom, and the Galactic Milieu books are the work May is best known for. The catalogue holds 50 titles dated 1961 to 2015, opening with Robots and Thinking Machines. Much of the run is juvenile writing: profiles of Johnny Unitas, Willie Mays, Bobby Orr, Ernie Banks, Fran Tarkenton, Gale Sayers, Roberto Clemente and Billie Jean King all fall between 1972 and 1974, and Sports Close-Up is among the series on record. Median length across the catalogue is 47 pages.

Nautical historical fiction is Julian Stockwin's subject: seafaring life, naval history, and sailors of Britain and France. His 30 catalogued books span 2001 to 2024 and are dominated by Thomas Kydd, a sequence opening with Kydd (2001), Artemis (2002) and Mutiny (2003). Two standalone novels sit outside it, The Silk Tree and The Powder of Death, alongside non-fiction. Stockwin, an MBE born at Basingstoke in 1944, writes books of a median 352 pages.

Juliana Stone has 7 catalogued books published between 2018 and 2021: The Thing About Trouble (2018), A Little Bit of Christmas (2019), That Thing You Do (2019), Love And Other Things (2020), Love Me Forever (2020), Shake The Frost (2020) and Slow Kind Of Love (2021). The catalogue is filed under romance, and nothing new has appeared since 2021.

Drew Farthering is the detective of Julianna Deering's Christian mystery series, set in England. Rules of Murder (2013) opens the run, followed by Death by the Book (2014), Murder at the Mikado (2014), Dressed for Death (2016), Death at Thorburn Hall (2017) and Murder on the Moor (2017). Murder investigation, crime and drug trafficking supply the plots, with Scotland entering the later books. Six titles stand at a median 321 pages, and none has appeared since 2017.