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ⓘ About Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain is an award-winning and bestselling English novelist and short story writer. She has written several mind-blowing standalone novels in her career based on the magical realism, historical fiction, mystery, crime, suspense, cultural, and literary fiction genres. Tremain’s books have helped her win some prestigious literary awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Baileys Women’s Prize, the Prix Femina Etranger, the Orange Prize, the Giles Cooper Award, the Whitbread Award, etc. Her novel, Restoration, was nominated for the Booker Prize. Author Tremain was born as Rosemary Jane Thomson on August 2, 1943, in London, U.K. Her great-grandfather, William Thomson, was the York Archbishop between 1862 and 1890.
All Book Series by Rose Tremain
The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories
Series opener · book 1 of 7 · published 1987
The BBC National Short Story Award 2010
Series opener · book 1 of 15 · published 2010 Anthology · Helen Oyeyemi,David Constantine,Sarah Hall,Aminatta Forna,Jon McGregor
The BBC National Short Story Award 2011
Book 2 of 15 · published 2011 Anthology · Alison MacLeod,M.J. Hyland,Jon McGregor,K.J. Orr,Sue MacGregor
The BBC International Short Story Award 2012
Book 3 of 15 · published 2012 Anthology · Miroslav Penkov,Carrie Tiffany,Deborah Levy,M.J. Hyland,Clive Anderson,Lucy Caldwell,Henrietta Rose-Innes,Julian Gough,Chris Womersley,Krys Lee,Adam Ross
The BBC National Short Story Award 2013
Book 4 of 15 · published 2013 Anthology · Lionel Shriver,Sarah Hall,Lavinia Greenlaw,Lucy Wood
The BBC National Short Story Award 2014
Book 5 of 15 · published 2014 Co-authored · Tessa Hadley,Lionel Shriver,Zadie Smith,Francesca Rhydderch,Alan Yentob
The BBC National Short Story Award 2015
Book 6 of 15 · published 2015 Anthology · Jeremy Page
BBC National Short Story Award 2016
Book 7 of 15 · published 2016 Anthology · Hilary Mantel,Claire-Louise Bennett,Lavinia Greenlaw,Tahmima Anam,Jenni Murray,K.J. Orr
The BBC National Short Story Award 2017
Book 8 of 15 · published 2017 Anthology · Joanna Trollope,Helen Oyeyemi,Jenni Fagan,Benjamin Markovits,Will Eaves,Cynan Jones
The BBC National Short Story Award 2018
Book 9 of 15 · published 2018 Anthology · Kerry Andrew,Sarah Hall,Ingrid Persaud,Nell Stevens,Kiare Ladner,Stig Abell
The BBC National Short Story Award 2019
Book 10 of 15 · published 2019 Anthology · Lucy Caldwell,Jo Lloyd,Lynda Clark,Jacqueline Crooks,Nikki Bedi
The BBC National Short Story Award 2020
Book 11 of 15 · published 2020 Anthology · Eley Williams,Sarah Hall,Caleb Azumah Nelson,Jan Carson,Jack Houston
The BBC National Short Story Award 2021
Book 12 of 15 · published 2021 Anthology · Danny Rhodes,James Runcie,Richard Smyth,Lucy Caldwell,Rory Gleeson,Georgina Harding
The BBC National Short Story Award 2022
Book 13 of 15 · published 2022 Anthology · Kerry Andrew,Elizabeth Day,Jenn Ashworth,Anna Bailey,Vanessa Onwuemezi,Saba Sams
The BBC National Short Story Award 2023
Book 14 of 15 · published 2023 Anthology · Kamila Shamsie,NickMulgrew,NaomiWood,CheriseSaywell,KPatrick,Reeta Chakrabarti
The BBC National Short Story Award 2024
Latest in the series · book 15 of 15 · published 2024 Anthology · Lucy Caldwell,Ross Raisin,Will Boast,Manish Chauhan,Paddy O’Connell,Vee Walker
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Rose Tremain?
Rose Tremain is an award-winning and bestselling English novelist and short story writer. She has written several mind-blowing standalone novels in her career based on the magical realism, historical fiction, mystery, crime, suspense, cultural, and literary fiction genres. Tremain's books have helped her win some prestigious literary awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Baileys Women's Prize, the Prix Femina Etranger, the Orange Prize, the Giles Cooper Award, the Whitbread Award, etc.
Which Rose Tremain series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Restoration series, the earliest of Rose Tremain's multi-book series: it opens with Restoration (1989) and runs to 2 books across 1989–2012, ending with Merivel (2012). Rose Tremain's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Rose Tremain written?
Rose Tremain has 55 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1973 and 2026. 20 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the Restoration series with 2 books — and 35 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Rose Tremain's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Rose Tremain's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Politics in Action (1973, 1 book), Restoration (1989–2012, 2 books) and Vintage Minis (2017–2018, 2 books).
How are Rose Tremain's books organised into series?
This guide splits Rose Tremain's 55 books into 4 named series and 35 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Restoration (2 books, 1989–2012); Vintage Minis (2 books, 2017–2018); Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Politics in Action (1 book, 1973); The BBC National Short Story Award (15 books, 2010–2024).