Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope CBE has been writing for nearly fifty years and is one of our most acclaimed and beloved novelists – her work has attracted considerable critical acclaim as well as huge commercial success. Her novels have been translated into over twenty-five languages and several have been adapted for television. Joanna is the author of twenty-two highly acclaimed contemporary bestsellers, including Sense & Sensibility (2013), the lead title in HarperCollins’s Austen Project, and ten historical novels published under the pseudonym Caroline Harvey. An accomplished short story writer and occasional magazine contributor, Joanna also wrote a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia’s Daughters (Pimlico, 2006), and edited a widely praised anthology of rural life, The Country Habit (Bantam, 1993).

Joanna was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen’s Birthday Honours List (for services to charity), and CBE in 2019, for services to literature, and was the Chair of Judges of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012.