Rita Bradshaw

Rita Bradshaw is the pseudonym of Helen Brooks, a British author best known for the writing of historical romances. Bradshaw was born in 1950 Northampton England to Vi Whitsey, a woman who brought her up under Christian values. She met her husband Clive when she was only sixteen years old and the magic has stayed strong for nearly fifty years.

The best place to start is the Kids and Kisses series, the earliest of Rita Bradshaw's multi-book series: it opens with A Valentine for Daisy (1993) and runs to 24 books across 1993–1999, ending with Farelli's Wife (1999). Rita Bradshaw's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Rita Bradshaw has 384 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1988 and 2023. 317 of them belong to 23 named series — the largest being the Kids and Kisses series with 24 books — and 67 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Rita Bradshaw's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Kids and Kisses (1993–1999, 24 books), Stolen Moments (1993–1995, 6 books) and Sealed with a Kiss (1994–1995, 11 books), plus 16 more.

This guide splits Rita Bradshaw's 384 books into 23 named series and 67 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Kids and Kisses (24 books, 1993–1999); Do Not Disturb (22 books, 1998–2008); Latin Lovers (21 books, 1999–2022); Dinner At 8 (16 books, 2001–2011); Sealed with a Kiss (11 books, 1994–1995), plus 18 further series.