How many books has Joanna Toye written?

Joanna Toye has written 12 books across 2 series. Their published works span from 1997 to 2022.

What is the first book in each Joanna Toye series?

Here are the first books in Joanna Toye's series: Marlow’s Department Store: A Store at War; Non-Fiction: The Best Of Breakfasts.

What order should I read Joanna Toye's books?

We recommend reading Joanna Toye's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.

Are Joanna Toye's series complete?

Joanna Toye has 1 completed series.

Joanna Toye Reading Order

2 series · 12 books

Historical Fiction Non-Fiction

Joanna Toye is a British author who writes historical fiction set in the mid-twentieth century, with a particular focus on the lives of working women in retail environments. Her Marlow's Department Store series, which spans multiple novels published between 1997 and 2022, draws inspiration from the author's research into a defunct Wolverhampton department store and captures the experiences of shop girls navigating work, friendship, and romance during wartime and post-war Britain. Toye has also published non-fiction works alongside her fiction, establishing herself as both a storyteller and social historian exploring this distinctive period of British commercial life.

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Marlow’s Department Store Series

Likely Complete

6 books (2019–2022)

Joanna Toye's Marlow's Department Store series spans six historical fiction novels published between 2019 and 2022, following events in publication order. The complete series, which opens with A Store at War, traces the lives of characters connected to a department store through wartime and its aftermath, concluding with Wedding Bells for the Victory Girls. Each book can be read as part of the larger narrative arc, with later titles focusing on the Victory Girls characters introduced earlier in the sequence.

Start with A Store at War, the first of 6 books in the Marlow’s Department Store series.

Start this series with A Store at War

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1	A Store at War 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Wartime for the Shop Girls 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Christmas for the Shop Girls 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Heartache for the Shop Girls 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Victory Girls 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Wedding Bells for the Victory Girls 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

Non-Fiction Series

Complete

6 books (1997–2013)

Joanna Toye's five-book non-fiction series spans from 1997 to 2013 and is now complete. The series should be read in publication order, beginning with The Best Of Breakfasts. The collection includes works on breakfast history and multiple volumes devoted to The Archers, the long-running radio drama, covering different eras and aspects of the show's characters and development.

Start with The Best Of Breakfasts, the first of 5 books in the Non-Fiction series.

Start this series with The Best Of Breakfasts