JEAN CHAPMAN
Book List
‘A Watery Grave’ second murder mystery featuring ex-Met officer John Cannon and the strange and mysterious area of The Fens. Pub. Robert Hale March 2011. __________________________________________________________________________________
‘Both Sides of the Fence’ a murder mystery set in The Fens Introducing ex-Met officer John Cannon and his partner Liz Makepeace. Published Sept. 2009. Robert Hale Hardback, Magna large print , Isis/Soundings Audio, Cd. and download.
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‘Dance Over The Sea’ a sequel to ‘And A Golden Pear’ taking the story of the Bennetts and Philipps two generations on into the 1970’s.
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‘And a Golden Pear’ set in the heart of rural Leics. Just after the second World War, this is a novel about loyalties, first daughter to father, then woman to the young man she loves, then to the man she marries. Three very different men divide her heart.
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‘A New Beginning’ – the moving love stories of a mother and daughter played out against the turbulent backdrop of World War II, beginning with their compulsory evacuation from their home in Gibraltar. This novel is dedicated to, and woven around, the factual events and experiences of four sisters who were born on Europa Point lighthouse, Gibraltar, and were caught up in a hazardous sea journey across the Atlantic to be brought to London at the height of the Blitz.
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‘This Time Last Year’ – the story of an English girl caught up in the German invasion of France in the 1940’s because of her family’s friendship with an Avignon family. The story of two journeys, one through war-torn France, the other from girl to womanhood.
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‘The Soldier’s Girl’ – the evacuation of London children to the far south west of Cornwall in World War II was a culture shock to both. The Cockney spirit is unbowed by prejudice, trauma, war or personal tragedy – and triumphs in the end.
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The Red Pavilion’ – the love stories of mother and daughter set in Malaya in 1948 during the communist insurgence. The daughter regards Malaya as home, the mother leaves England only very reluctantly – their attitudes change. Short listed for the Romantic Novel of the Year.
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‘A World Apart’ – a young girl’s ambition to be a journalist at end of 1939-45 war. Her mother’s uncaring harshness explained at end of the novel by which time her daughter has reported on the Nuremberg trials, the fate of girls who married G.I.’s and been involved with two very different men.
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‘Fortune’s Woman’ – 1926 General Strike and the fortunes of a young woman sent to care for an Aunt in a mining village. She becomes involved in the miners’ causes, their hates and their loves.
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‘The Bellmakers’ – a family of women striving to make a living in the man’s world of 1880’s become involved with a family of bellmakers, but prejudice, superstition and gossip threaten.
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‘Savage Legacy’ – an Edwardian love story across social divides
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‘Forbidden Path’ – farming story in the grim 1920’s a clash of tradition and loves.
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‘Tangled Dynasty’ after 1st World War – background Leics. Hosiery industry – a story of loving and losing - and of fighting back.
___________________________________________________________________________________ ‘The Unreasoning Earth’ – 1st World War set in Leics – the aching wait for a soldier to return.
Short listed for Romantic Novel of Year.
