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Lucy Ellmann

3 Series • 9 Books

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🎯 Where Should I Start?

Best Starting Point
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Start with: Sweet Desserts (1989)
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Publication Order of Picture Books
Start with: Tom the Obscure (2014)
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Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Start with: Things Are Against Us (2021)

ⓘ About Lucy Ellmann

Lucy is a regular contributor of articles on fiction and art to the Times Literary Supplement, Artforum, the Listener, Modern Painters, and the New Statesman. She is also a screenwriter. She got her Foundation degree from Falmouth School of Art in 1975, her BA from University of Essex in 1980, and her MA from Courtauld Institute of Art in 1981. “Sweet Desserts” won the Guardian Fiction Prize. “Dot in the Universe” was nominated for a Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel. “Ducks, Newburyport” won the Goldsmiths Prize in 2019 and the 2020 James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the 2020 Prix Medicis etranger, and shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize.

All Book Series by Lucy Ellmann

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Sweet Desserts

Series opener · book 1 of 7 · published 1989

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1989
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Varying Degrees of Hopelessness

Book 2 of 7 · published 1991

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1991
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Man or Mango?

Book 3 of 7 · published 1998

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1998
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Dot in the Universe

Book 4 of 7 · published 2003

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2003
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Doctors & Nurses

Book 5 of 7 · published 2006

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2006
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Mimi

Book 6 of 7 · published 2013

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2013
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Ducks, Newburyport

Latest in the series · book 7 of 7 · published 2019

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2019
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Tom the Obscure

Single-title series · published 2014

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2014
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Things Are Against Us

Single-title series · published 2021

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2021

? Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Lucy Ellmann?

Lucy is a regular contributor of articles on fiction and art to the Times Literary Supplement, Artforum, the Listener, Modern Painters, and the New Statesman. She is also a screenwriter. She got her Foundation degree from Falmouth School of Art in 1975, her BA from University of Essex in 1980, and her MA from Courtauld Institute of Art in 1981. “Sweet Desserts” won the Guardian Fiction Prize. “Dot in the Universe” was nominated for a Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel. “Ducks, Newburyport” won the Goldsmiths Prize in 2019 and the 2020 James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and was…

Which Lucy Ellmann series should I start with?

Lucy Ellmann's books stand alone rather than forming a numbered series, so there is no reading order to follow. The natural first pick is Sweet Desserts (1989).

How many books has Lucy Ellmann written?

Lucy Ellmann has 9 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1989 and 2021. They are filed under 3 categories rather than in numbered series — chiefly Standalone Novels, Picture and Non-Fiction.

In what order should Lucy Ellmann's series be read?

No reading order is needed: none of the 9 books catalogued here do not form a numbered series, so any title can be picked up first. Within each category they are listed by publication year.

How are Lucy Ellmann's books organised into series?

This guide splits Lucy Ellmann's 9 books into categories rather than numbered series: Standalone Novels (7 books); Picture (1 book); Non-Fiction (1 book).