British writer
Katie Fforde, née Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming (born 27 September 1952), is a British romance novelist. Published since 1995, her romance novels are set in modern-day England.
She is founder of the Katie Fforde Bursary for writers who have yet to secure a publishing contract. She was for many years a committee member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and was elected its twenty-fifth chairman (2009–2011) and later its fourth president. In June 2010 she was announced as a patron of the UK's first National Short Story Week.[1] In 2016, she launched the Stroud Contemporary Fiction Writing Competition as part of the first Stroud Book Festival.[2]
Biography
Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming was born on 27 September 1952 in Wimbledon, London, the daughter of Shirley Barbara Laub and Michael Willoughby Gordon-Cumming. Her grandfather was Sir William Gordon-Cumming.
Fforde has lived near Stroud, Gloucestershire for over twenty years.
Many of Fforde's own experiences end up in her books. Her novel Going Dutch was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller in June 2007. Fforde takes the research for her books seriously, employing a 'method acting'-style approach to the different professions and backgrounds featured in her novels, using experiences such as being a porter in an auction house, making pottery, refurbishing furniture, examining the processes behind a dating website, and going on a Ray Mears survival course.[3]
Bibliography
Fforde is the author of a number of works.[4]
Novels
- Living Dangerously (1995)
- The Rose Revived (1995)
- Wild Designs (1996)
- Stately Pursuits (1997)
- Life Skills (1999)
- Thyme Out (2000) aka Second Thyme Around
- Artistic Licence (2001)
- Highland Fling (2002)
- Paradise Fields (2003)
- Restoring Grace (2004)
- Flora's Lot (2005) a.k.a. Bidding for Love
- Practically Perfect (2006)
- Going Dutch (2007)
- Wedding Season (2008)
- Love Letters (2009)
- A Perfect Proposal (2010)
- Summer of Love (2011)
- The Undercover Cook (2012)
- Recipe for Love (2012)
- Best of Romance (2012)
- Staying Away at Christmas (2012)
- A French Affair (2013)
- The Perfect Match (2014)
- A Vintage Wedding (2015)
- Christmas like in a Picture Book (2016)
- A Summer at Sea (2016)
- Candlelight at Christmas (2016)
- Winter Collection (2016)
- Meeting for Christmas (2016)
- Christmas in the Distance (2016)
- Christmas by the Fire (2016)
- A Secret Garden (2017)
- A Summer by the Sea: can you be a girlfriend on vacation? (2017)
- A Country Escape (2018)
- A Summer by the Sea (2018)
- A Garden full of Flowers (2018)
- A Rose Petal Summer (2019)
- The Cottage (2019)
- Country House with Views / A Love in the Highlands (2019)
- Christmas Magic in the Cabin (2019)
- A Springtime Affair (2020)
- A Wedding in the Country (2021)
- A Wedding in Provence (2022)
Anthologies edited
- Loves Me, Loves Me Not (2009)
- A Christmas Feast and Other Stories (2014)
- The Christmas Stocking and Other Stories (2017)
Forewords
Filmography
Many of Fforde's novels have been adapted into a series of German TV films. Unlike the novels which are set in England, the TV films are shot in the Northeastern United States.
- Katie Fforde: Die Treue-Testerin - Spezialauftrag Liebe (2008)
- Katie Fforde: Eine Liebe in den Highlands (2010, based on Highland Fling)
- Katie Fforde: Holiday spirit [de](2010, based on Restoring Grace)
- Katie Fforde: Glücksboten (2010, based on Thyme Out)
- Katie Fforde: Harriets Traum (2011, based on The Rose Revived)
- Katie Fforde: Zum Teufel mit David (2011, based on Living Dangerously)
- Katie Fforde: Diagnosis Love [de] (2012)
- Katie Fforde: Lighthouse with a Wiev [de] (2012)
- Katie Fforde: Jump into Happiness [de] (2012)
- Katie Fforde: Part of You [de] (2012)
- Katie Fforde: Summer of Truth [de] (2012)
- Katie Fforde: An Expensive Fling (2013, based on Flora's Lot)
- Katie Fforde: By Your Side [de] (2014)
- Katie Fforde: The See in You [de] (2014)
- Katie Fforde: Like Fire and Ice (2014)
- Katie Fforde: Geschenkte Jahre (2014, based on Paradise Fields)
- Katie Fforde: Love in New York [de] (2014)
- Katie Fforde: Martha Dances [de] (2014)
- Katie Fforde: Forget Me Not [de] (2015)
- Katie Fforde: Back to the Sea [de] (2015)
- Katie Fforde: The Child I Long For (2015)
- Katie Fforde: A Christmas Miracle in New York (2015)
- Katie Fforde: Why Did I Say Yes? [de] (2016)
- Katie Fforde: Die Frau an seiner Seite (2016)
- Katie Fforde: The Silence of Men [de] (2016)
- Katie Fforde: Summer of Witches [de] (2016)
- Katie Fforde: You and Me [de] (2016)
- Katie Fforde: My son and his fathers [de] (2016)
- Katie Fforde: Dancing on Broadway [de] (2016)
- Katie Fforde: Bella's Luck [de] (2016)
- Katie Fforde: Matter of the Heart [de] (2017)
- Katie Fforde: My Crazy Family (2017)
- Katie Fforde: Brother's Keeper [de] (2017)
- Katie Fforde: Mom at Home Alone [de] (2018)
- Katie Fforde: Pretty Best Friends [de] (2018)
- Katie Fforde: Family on Probation [de] (2018)
- Katie Fforde: A Friend in Need (2018)
- Katie Fforde: Room with an Ocean View (2018)
- Katie Fforde: Kissed Awake (2019)
- Katie Fforde: The Other Woman's Child (2019)
- Katie Fforde: My husband's daughter (2019)
References
- ^ Katie Fforde: Patron of National Short Story Week, Nationalshortstoryweek.org.uk, archived from the original on 9 March 2012, retrieved 22 February 2010
- ^ Katie Fforde: Contemporary Fiction Writing Competition, stroudfestival.org, retrieved 8 March 2017
- ^ Isis Publishing, isis-publishing.co.uk, retrieved 8 March 2017
- ^ Katie Fforde, Fantasticfiction.co.uk, retrieved 20 January 2010
External links
- https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books-restoring-grace-by-katie-fforde-1528675.html
- https://www.isis-publishing.co.uk/author/f/katie-fforde
- http://stroudfestival.org/comp.html
