Wendy Holden

The Duchess, the second novel in Wendy Holden's trilogy about royal outsiders, fictionalises the unknown London life of Wallis Simpson....

Marion Crawford was 22 when she became governess to the young princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in 1933. A working-class girl with progressive ideas, she had intended to teach in the Edinburgh slums. Instead, she had a ringside seat at some of the most seismic events of the 20th century....

Forget about Cool Britannia and Gallic Chic. Scotland is having a fashion moment....

Sophie seems to have a perfect marriage. But as her author husband's star rises, his best husband status is sliding out of the chart, and Sophie feels neglected....

Alice wants her own art gallery. But at the moment. she’s running her nightmare boss Angelica’s....

Kate, a journalist in a small northern town, is fed up with covering black-pudding championships for the Slackmucklethwaite Mercury and living with Mum, Dad, and Gran....

Morag wants to plough hers with a horse; Beth buys a gleaming mini-tractor; Alexandra arrives with a Chanel spade & film crew, while Mary endures the advice of a champion vegetable-grower....

Two couples meet in an antenatal class and loathe each other on sight....

Teacher Ginnie is desperate to forget her crush on headmaster Mark and hopes glamping might do the trick. But Mark is also heading for Wild and Free....

Laura Lake longs to be a journalist. Instead she's an unpaid intern at a glossy magazine, sleeping in the fashion cupboard and living on canapés. But she's just got her first big break....

Laura Lake, editor of glossy magazine Society, is always on the hunt for scandalous scoops to fill her pages....

It's the new university term among the dreaming spires. The start of a whole new life....

Scheming social climber Alexa may be humbly born....

Assiduously researched and drawn from archives and survivor testimonies, historian and biographer Wendy Holden tells the inspirational and uplifting true story of Fredy Hirsch: The Teacher of Auschwitz.

Britain, 1961. A beautiful blonde baby is born to Viscount Althorp, heir to the Spencer earldom. But Diana grows up amid the fallout of her parents’ messy divorce. She struggles at school. Her refuge throughout is romantic novels. She dreams of falling in love and being rescued by a prince....