Erica James

Erica James
Born	1960 (age 63–64) Surrey, England
Occupation	Novelist
Language	English
Period	1996–present
Genre	Romance
Notable awards	RoNA Award
Spouse	Divorced
Children	2
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., 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.

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

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

• What A Woman Wants (2006) (with Donna Hay and Maureen Lee)

External links

• Official website