Barbara Taylor Bradford

Barbara Taylor Bradford, OBE is one of the world's best loved storytellers. Her 1979 debut novel, A Woman of Substance, ranks as one of the top-ten bestselling books of all-time, with more than 30 million copies in print. All 25 of her novels to date have been major worldwide bestsellers. Her 26th book, Playing The Game, will be published on October 12th by St. Martin's Press. Bradford was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire (UK) as the only child of Freda and Winston Taylor. She grew up in the Leeds suburb of Armley and after Town Street Church of England School worked in the typing pool at the Yorkshire Evening Post before going into journalism. By the age of twenty she was the fashion editor of Woman's Own Magazine and an editor and columnist on Fleet Street for the London Evening News. Bradford's books have sold more than eighty-two (82) million copies worldwide in more than ninety (90) countries and forty (40) languages. Ten (10) of her books have been made into miniseries and television movies, making her one of the best-selling authors over the last 30 years. In April of 2003, Mrs. Bradford was inducted into the Writers Hall of Fame of America alongside Mark Twain, Langston Hughes and Dr. Seuss. She was awarded an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours list for her contributions to literature. Her original manuscripts are archived at the Brotherton Library at Leeds University, alongside the works of the Bronte sisters. In 2009, Barbara's publishers began a worldwide 30th anniversary celebration of A Woman of Substance. The first annual Woman of Substance Awards took place on September 10th 2009 at the Dorchester Hotel in London. She lives in New York City with her husband, of 43 years, television producer Robert Bradford. Her official website is: www.barbarataylorbradford.com

Big news: I will be delivering book # 4 in the Cavendon series to my publishers in March. Now writing feverishly on this new installment.

— Barbara Taylor Bradford (@BTBNovelist)

Books by Barbara Taylor Bradford

The Cavendon Luck: A Novel

Release Date: 03 Jan 2017

Price: $3.10

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a captivating epic saga of courage and honor, following the aristocratic Inghams and the loyal Swann family who have served them for centuries.It is 1938 in England, and Miles and Cecily Ingham have l...more


A Women Of Substance

Release Date: 06 Jul 2016

Price: $0.00

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The Cavendon Women: A Novel

Release Date: 29 Dec 2015

Price: $4.91

From blockbuster bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes a stunning saga of love and loyalty set in early twentieth-century England. Cavendon Hall is home to the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them. But after the Great War, the ...more


Cavendon Hall

Release Date: 30 Dec 2014

Price: $5.64

Two entwined families: the aristocratic inghams and the swanns who serve them. The earl and countess rely on their faithful retainers alice and walter swann as their young family grows up. One stately home: cavendon hall, a grand imposing house nestled...more


Hidden

Release Date: 03 Feb 2014

Price: $3.39

Drama, danger and heartbreak. This is a gripping story from a master storyteller. On the surface, Claire Saunders has it all. She has a rewarding career in fashion and a talented concert pianist daughter. Her loving husband is one of the country's most...more


Secrets from the Past

Release Date: 29 Oct 2013

Price: $3.85

Secrets from the Past is an epic, emotional novel of deeply-buried secrets, passionate love, obsession, and redemption from blockbuster bestselling author Barbara Taylor BradfordAt thirty years old, American photojournalist Serena Stone has already ma...more


Letter from a Stranger

Release Date: 28 Aug 2012

Price: $2.95

Letter from a StrangerBarbara BradfordJustine Nolan is a documentary filmmaker who lost her cherished grandmother a decade agothe only source of love and comfort in her life. Her own mother, Deborah, has always been distant, focusing on her career as a...more


Playing The Game

Release Date: 03 Jan 2012

Price: $1.95

Barbara Taylor Bradford, the blockbuster New York Times bestselling author of A Woman of Substance and The Ravenscar Dynasty, has written an explosive new novel about one woman's remarkable journey to success.Annette Remmington is a London art consulta...more


Breaking the Rules (Harte Family Saga)

Release Date: 28 Sep 2010

Price: $58.01

Following a terrifying encounter, a beautiful young woman flees her quiet English countryside in search of a new life. She adopts the initial M as her name and embarks on a journey that will lead her onto the catwalks of Paris to New York, where she me...more


Being Elizabeth (Ravenscar Series)

Release Date: 30 Jun 2009

Price: $2.17

At age twenty-five, Elizabeth Deravenel Turner finds herself in a position few women her age could image: the head of Deravenels, a business empire that spans the globe. It's a company whose reach is wide and whose secrets are deep. Deravenels has root...more


Three Weeks In Paris

Release Date: 01 Jan 2009

Price: $0.00

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The Heir (Ravenscar Series)

Release Date: 01 Jul 2008

Price: $58.01

The Deravenels: Their business empire is worth billions, their influence stretches across the globe. And Edward, the dashing and charismatic chosen son, is the king of his company at last. He has survived harrowing years of betrayal, threats from ruthl...more


A Secret Affair

Release Date: 30 Oct 2007

Price: $0.99

Seeking some much-needed rest and relaxation after a long stint as a TV-news war correspondent in Bosnia, 33-year-old Bill Fitzgerald travels to Venice. There he is struck by the dark beauty of a young American woman, Vanessa Stewart, a 27-year-old gla...more


Dangerous to Know

Release Date: 30 Oct 2007

Price: $1.39

That is why the police are profoundly baffled when Sebastian Locke is found dead at his country estate under mysterious circumstances. Has he been murdered? And if so, who would have wanted to kill the world's greatest philanthropist? Could such an ups...more


The Ravenscar Dynasty (Ravenscar Series)

Release Date: 31 Jul 2007

Price: $5.00

Bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford introduced the illustrious Harte family in her blockbuster A Woman of Substance. Now she has created a powerful new cast of characters whose lives are filled with drama and danger, romance and revenge: the Der...more


Act of Will

Release Date: 14 Mar 2007

Price: $37.42

The story of three generations of women begins in England in 1926 and eventually moves to the world of fashion in New York City. The saga focuses on their constantly evolving relationships and how their decisions dramatically affect one another's lives.more


Everything to Gain

Release Date: 27 Feb 2007

Price: $1.80

Mallory Keswick can't imagine how her life could possibly be better. She has a wonderful, fulfilling marriage to a man who loves, supports, and nurtures her. She has a lovely home and beautiful twins who bring joy to her days, to all of which she devot...more


Her Own Rules

Release Date: 27 Feb 2007

Price: $1.74

Meredith Stratton worked hard to become a successful businesswomanand now she owns six elegant inns all over the world. But on a trip abroad she is struck by a strange illness, one that seems to have no physical cause. Meredith has always played by her...more


Her Own Rules/Dangerous to Know

Release Date: 30 Jan 2007

Price: $1.43

One of the world's most beloved and successful novelists, the incomparable Barbara Taylor Bradford has the golden touchcreating powerful stories of love and deception, crisis and triumph, that resonate with real emotion . . . and remarkable characters ...more


Heirs of Ravenscar

Release Date: 01 Jan 2007

Price: $29.65

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Just Rewards (Harte Family Saga)

Release Date: 03 Oct 2006

Price: $5.92

Linnet O'Neill, great-granddaughter of Emma Harte, finds herself following in the footsteps of the original woman of substance as she battles to modernize the family business. Returning from her honeymoon full of fresh ideas for bringing the Harte empi...more


Love in Another Town

Release Date: 25 Jul 2006

Price: $2.00

Estranged from his wife, Amy, Jake Cantrell feels his life has stalled as he approaches his twenty-ninth birthday. Seeking a divorce and distance, he has moved to the town of Kent, Connecticut, to concentrate on his new electrical contracting business....more


Everything to Gain and A Secret Affair (Two Books in One)

Release Date: 30 May 2006

Price: $3.93

When you lose yourself in a novel by New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford, you surrender to real emotion, heartbreaking crisis, unassailable love, triumphant reawakening, and the breathtaking power of an exceptional story beautiful...more


To Be the Best

Release Date: 30 Jan 2006

Price: $22.24

Enthralling sequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's universally loved novels, A Woman of Substance and Hold The Dream. Set in Yorkshire, Hong Kong and America, this remarkable contemporary novel continues the story of an unorthodox and endlessly fascinati...more


Voice of the Heart

Release Date: 04 Oct 2005

Price: $28.08

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford now sets her enthralling storytelling talents against a glittering tapestry of love and success as an ambitious beauty strives to make her dazzling dreams come true at any cost EVEYTHING A WOMA...more


Unexpected Blessings

Release Date: 28 Feb 2005

Price: $9.98

The new blockbuster from one of the world's greatest storytellers continues the legacy of A Woman of Substance. The great-grandaughters of Emma Harte, the heroine of A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE and EMMA'S SECRET, follow in her legendary footsteps...Evan Hughe...more


Emma's Secret

Release Date: 04 Jan 2005

Price: $24.95

A New York Times Bestseller A Book of the Month Club Alternate Selection A Literary Guild Main Selection The legendary Emma Harte, heroine of A Woman of Substance, returns in Emma's Secret, a novel that showcases the storytelling power of Barbara Tayl...more


The Triumph of Katie Byrne

Release Date: 04 Feb 2002

Price: $4.88

A riveting novel that begins with a murder in an old Connecticut barn and reaches its climax on Broadway. We first meet Katie Byrne at seventeen. A tall beauty with reddish-gold hair, she has always wanted to be an actress. Her two best friends share h...more


Remember

Release Date: 01 Jan 2001

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Where You Belong

Release Date: 09 Dec 2000

Price: $1.91

A contemporary novel from the author of A Woman of Substance about a young woman finding herself and her place in life, in love and in the world. Valentine Denning is a courageous photojournalist on the frontline in Kosovo. Her colleagues - Tony Hampto...more


A Sudden Change of Heart

Release Date: 16 Feb 1999

Price: $0.88

Barbara Taylor Bradford has become one of the world's most cherished storytellers, having written fourteen bestselling novels that went on to become enduring favorites. In A Sudden Change of Heart, readers are once again invited to fall under the spell...more


Angel (MM to TR Promotion)

Release Date: 23 Jun 1997

Price: $0.00

From the internationally beloved bestselling author of A Woman of Substance, The Women in His Life, and Remember--an enthralling novel of four friends transformed by an uncommon bond. When the four orphans met, they felt bound by a loyalty deeper and f...more


Power of a Woman

Release Date: 01 Jun 1997

Price: $0.01

Beginning with A Woman of Substance, all of Barbara Taylor Bradford's novels have been met with huge success, and her popularity only increases with each new book she writes. Seven of her novels have already been adapted for television, including the E...more


Xxact of Will

Release Date: 09 May 1995

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The Women in His Life

Release Date: 23 Jul 1990

Price: $1.99

A billionaire tycoon torn apart by personal doubts. Maximilian West: filthy rich, corporate raider and a man of almost mythical power, glamour and charm. He appears to have everything. But in reality Maximilian is riven with internal conflict and torn ...more


HOLD THE DREAM

Release Date: 01 Mar 1986

Price: $29.36

This is the second in a saga of books about Emma Harte and the business empire she created and ruled. The books have been filmed in a TV mini-series. Other books by Barbara Taylor Bradford include A Woman of Substance and Remember.more