🎯 Where Should I Start?
ⓘ About Santa Montefiore
Santa Montefiore born Santa Palmer-Tomkinson is a British-Argentine writer best known for writing romantic thriller novels. She had always wanted to write professionally ever since she was a child and would graduate from reading children short stories to naïve love stories as she aged. At age twelve, she attended the Sherborne School for Girls where she was terrible at practically everything except for English, in which she was always the best in the class. She would frequently write up stories pairing up her friends with the boys they fancied from the Sherborne Boy’s School just across the fence. Her friends loved the stories, and fancying herself one of the greatest novelists that ever lived, she submitted them to a publisher only to be rejected.
All Book Series by Santa Montefiore
The Girl in the Castle / The Irish Girl / Songs of Love and War
Series opener · book 1 of 5 · published 2015
Daughters of Castle Deverill / The Daughters of Ireland
Book 2 of 5 · published 2016
The Last Secret of the Deverills / The Secret of the Irish Castle
Book 3 of 5 · published 2017
The Royal Rabbits Of London / The Royal Rabbits
Series opener · book 1 of 4 · published 2016
The Hunt for the Golden Carrot
Latest in the series · book 4 of 4 · published 2019
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Santa Montefiore?
Santa Montefiore born Santa Palmer-Tomkinson is a British-Argentine writer best known for writing romantic thriller novels. She had always wanted to write professionally ever since she was a child and would graduate from reading children short stories to naïve love stories as she aged. At age twelve, she attended the Sherborne School for Girls where she was terrible at practically everything except for English, in which she was always the best in the class.
Which Santa Montefiore series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Deverill Chronicles series, the earliest of Santa Montefiore's multi-book series: it opens with The Girl in the Castle / The Irish Girl / Songs of Love and War (2015) and runs to 5 books across 2015–2021, ending with The Distant Shores (2021). Santa Montefiore's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Santa Montefiore written?
Santa Montefiore has 34 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2001 and 2026. 14 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the Deverill Chronicles series with 5 books — and 20 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Santa Montefiore's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Santa Montefiore's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Deverill Chronicles (2015–2021, 5 books), The Royal Rabbits of London (2016–2019, 4 books) and Flappy (2021–2023, 2 books), plus 1 more.
How are Santa Montefiore's books organised into series?
This guide splits Santa Montefiore's 34 books into 4 named series and 20 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Deverill Chronicles (5 books, 2015–2021); The Royal Rabbits of London (4 books, 2016–2019); Timeslider (3 books, 2024–2026); Flappy (2 books, 2021–2023).