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Tessa Hadley Books in Order

Tessa Hadley has written 17 books, published between 1998 and 2024. The first book is Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure (1998) and the newest is The Party (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
17
Published
1998–2024
Confirmed
1 of 17 titles
Pages on record
3,256 in 12 of 17 books
Reading time
54–81 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,256 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 17 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Tessa Hadley, author

Tessa Hadley, born Tessa Jane Nichols on 28 February 1956, is a British writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. Hadley's realistic fiction often concerns family relationships. Hadley's novels have twice reached the longlists of the Orange Prize and the Wales Book of the Year, and in 2016 Hadley received the Hawthornden Prize and a Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction. The catalogue begins with Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure (1998) and includes Accidents in the Home (2002), The London Train (2011), Clever Girl (2013), The Past (2015) and The Party (2024).

How many Tessa Hadley books are there?

Tessa Hadley has 17 books, released between 1998 and 2024.

Tessa Hadley Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 17 Tessa Hadley 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 Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure by Tessa Hadley (1998)
  2. Cover of Accidents in the Home by Tessa Hadley (2002)
  3. Cover of Everything Will Be All Right by Tessa Hadley (2003)
  4. Cover of Sunstroke and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley (2007)
  5. Cover of The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley (2007)
  6. Cover of The London Train by Tessa Hadley (2011)
  7. Cover of Married Love and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley (2012)
  8. Cover of Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley (2013)
  9. Cover of The Past by Tessa Hadley (2015)
  10. Cover of Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley (2019)
  11. Cover of Free Love by Tessa Hadley (2022)
  1. 1
    Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure1998 · 205 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998205
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  2. 2
    Accidents in the Home2002 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002256
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  3. 3
    Everything Will Be All Right2003 · 432 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003432
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  4. 5
    The Master Bedroom2007 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007352
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  5. 6
    The London Train2011 · 324 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011324
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  6. 8
    Clever Girl2013 · 252 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013252
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  7. 9
    The BBC National Short Story Award 2014BBC National Short Story Award #52014 · confirmed 3/4
    2014–
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  8. 10
    The Past2015 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015368
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  9. 11
    My Mother's Wedding2016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
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  10. 13
    Cecilia Awakened2018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018–
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  11. 14
    Late in the Day2019 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019288
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  12. 15
    Free Love2022 · confirmed 1/4
    2022–
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  13. 17
    The Party2024 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2024128
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Tessa Hadley 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.

BBC National Short Story Award

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Standalone books

16 books

16 Tessa Hadley titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Tessa Hadley books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 17 Tessa Hadley books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Tessa Hadley

Start with Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure (1998), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Tessa Hadley book?

The Party (2024) is the newest Tessa Hadley book released so far.

Is there a new Tessa Hadley book coming?

No next Tessa Hadley 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 Tessa Hadley has won

Wikidata records 2 awards for Tessa Hadley. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes2016Won
  • Hawthornden Prize2016Won

Tessa Hadley at a glance

Still publishing
Tessa Hadley published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Tessa Hadley books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,256 pages across the 12 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Tessa Hadley books, 9 of 17, were published in the 2010s.

What the Tessa Hadley books are about

12 of the 17 Tessa Hadley books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: family life is tagged on 5 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.