Erica James
Born1960 (age 62–63)
Surrey, England
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
Period1996–present
GenreRomance
Notable awardsRoNA Award
SpouseDivorced
Children2
Website
ericajames.co.uk

Erica James (born 1960) is a British writer of twenty-four best-selling romance novels. In 2006, her novel Gardens of Delight won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association.,[1] having been short-listed four times previously.

James has an international following and has been translated into thirteen languages, with the Norwegian edition of Summer at the Lake, ‘Alt i et Oyeblikk’, being a No.1 best-seller there.

Biography

Born in 1960 in Surrey, England, she grew up on Hayling Island, Hampshire. Divorced, she has two grown-up sons, Edward and Samuel, and two grandchildren. She lives in Suffolk.[2]

She began writing after attending a creative writing course with the Arvon Foundation and had her first novel, ‘A Breath of Fresh Air’ published in 1996, reaching the Sunday Times best-seller list that year.

As of 2022, she has sold in excess of five million copies of her novels.

Bibliography

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Single novels

  • A Breath of Fresh Air (1996)
  • Time for a Change (1997)
  • Airs and Graces (1997)
  • A Sense of Belonging (1998)
  • Act of Faith (1999)
  • The Holiday (2000)
  • Precious Time (2001)
  • Hidden Talents (2002)
  • Paradise House (2003)
  • Love and Devotion (2004)
  • Gardens of Delight (2005)
  • Tell It to the Skies (2007)
  • It's the Little Things (2008)
  • The Queen of New Beginnings (2010)
  • Promises, Promises (2010)
  • The Real Katie Lavender (2011)
  • The Hidden Cottage (2013)
  • Summer at the Lake (2014)
  • The Dandelion Years (2015)
  • Song of the Skylark (2016)
  • Coming Home to Island House (2018)
  • Swallowtail Summer (2019)
  • Letters from the Past (2020)
  • Mothers and Daughters (2022)

Anthologies in collaboration

References

  1. ↑ "Romance lives for Erica James". 20 April 2006.
  2. ↑ "Queen of Romance Erica James beams down in Long Melford after being seduced by Suffolk". 8 February 2015.
  3. ↑ Erica James at FantasticFiction, 10 July 2012
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