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Rosie Thomas Books in Order

Rosie Thomas has written 25 books, published between 1982 and 2015. The first book is Celebration (1982) and the newest is Bombay before Bollywood (2015). Publication order is the reading order below.

Rosie Thomas is the pen name of Janey Morris.

Books
25
Published
1982–2015
Pages on record
9,963 in 22 of 25 books
Reading time
166–249 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 9,963 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 22 of 25 titles with a page count on record.

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Rosie Thomas is the pen name of Janey King, a British journalist and romance novelist born in Denbigh, Wales, in 1947. Janey King has twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year award and ranks among the 100 authors most borrowed from United Kingdom libraries. The catalogue opens with Celebration and Love's Choice in 1982, and later novels include The White Dove (1986), Bad Girls Good Women (1988) and All My Sins Remembered (1992). Female friendship, London and family life appear in the subjects, and Illusionists is a listed series.

How many Rosie Thomas books are there?

Rosie Thomas has 25 books, released between 1982 and 2015. 2 of them belong to the Illusionists series.

Rosie Thomas Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 25 Rosie Thomas 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 Celebration by Rosie Thomas (1982)
  2. Cover of Love's Choice by Rosie Thomas (1982)
  3. Cover of Follies by Rosie Thomas (1983)
  4. Cover of Sunrise by Rosie Thomas (1984)
  5. Cover of A Simple Life by Rosie Thomas (1985)
  6. Cover of The White Dove by Rosie Thomas (1986)
  7. Cover of Strangers by Rosie Thomas (1987)
  8. Cover of Bad Girls Good Women by Rosie Thomas (1988)
  9. Cover of A Woman of Our Times by Rosie Thomas (1990)
  10. Cover of Every Woman Knows a Secret by Rosie Thomas (1996)
  11. Cover of Border Crossing by Rosie Thomas (1998)
  12. Cover of Moon Island by Rosie Thomas (1998)
  13. Cover of White by Rosie Thomas (2000)
  14. Cover of The Potter's House by Rosie Thomas (2001)
  15. Cover of If My Father Loved Me by Rosie Thomas (2003)
  16. Cover of Sun at Midnight by Rosie Thomas (2004)
  17. Cover of Constance by Rosie Thomas (2006)
  18. Cover of Lovers and Newcomers by Rosie Thomas (2010)
  19. Cover of The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie Thomas (2011)
  20. Cover of The Illusionists by Rosie Thomas, book 1 of the Illusionists series (2014)
  21. Cover of Daughter of the House by Rosie Thomas, book 2 of the Illusionists series (2015)
  1. 1
    Celebration1982 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1982400
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  2. 2
    Love's Choice1982 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1982352
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  3. 3
    Follies1983 · 424 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983424
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  4. 4
    Sunrise1984 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984368
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  5. 5
    A Simple Life1985 · 496 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1985496
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  6. 6
    The White Dove1986 · 720 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986720
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  7. 7
    Strangers1987 · 342 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987342
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  8. 8
    Bad Girls Good Women1988 · 800 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988800
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  9. 9
    A Woman of Our Times1990 · 516 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990516
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  10. 10
    All My Sins Remembered1992 · 551 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1992551
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  11. 11
    Other People's Marriages1993 · confirmed 1/4
    1993–
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  12. 12
    Every Woman Knows a Secret1996 · 444 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996444
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  13. 13
    Border Crossing1998 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998312
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  14. 14
    Moon Island1998 · 341 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998341
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  15. 15
    White2000 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000384
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  16. 16
    The Potter's House2001 · 420 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001420
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  17. 17
    If My Father Loved Me2003 · 400 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003400
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  18. 18
    Sun at Midnight2004 · 496 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004496
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  19. 19
    Iris and Ruby2006 · confirmed 1/4
    2006–
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  20. 20
    Constance2006 · 453 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2006453
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  21. 21
    Lovers and Newcomers2010 · 439 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2010439
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  22. 22
    The Kashmir Shawl2011 · 468 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011468
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  23. 23
    The IllusionistsIllusionists #12014 · confirmed 1/4
    2014–
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  24. 24
    Daughter of the HouseIllusionists #22015 · 512 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015512
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  25. 25
    Bombay before BollywoodSUNY Horizons of Cinema #192015 · 325 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015325
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Rosie Thomas 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.

Illusionists in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Illusionists
  2. 2. Daughter of the House

SUNY Horizons of Cinema in order

1 book
  1. 19. Bombay before Bollywood

Standalone books

22 books

22 Rosie Thomas titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Rosie Thomas books in order?

You only need to read Rosie Thomas books in order within the Illusionists series, which holds 2 of the 25 Rosie Thomas books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Rosie Thomas

Start with Celebration (1982), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Rosie Thomas book?

Bombay before Bollywood (2015) is the newest Rosie Thomas book released so far.

Is there a new Rosie Thomas book coming?

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

Awards Rosie Thomas has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Rosie Thomas. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Romantic Novelists' Association Awards1985Won

Rosie Thomas at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Rosie Thomas title on record dates from 2015, 11 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Rosie Thomas books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
9,963 pages across the 22 of 25 books with a recorded length, a median of 432 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Rosie Thomas books, 8 of 25, were published in the 1980s.

What the Rosie Thomas books are about

23 of the 25 Rosie Thomas books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 4 of 23. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.