Sheila Hancock Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Sheila Hancock is a British published author.

She was born in the United Kingdom on February 22, 1933. Prior to being an author, Sheila enjoyed a career as one of the most popular and highly regarded actors in Britain. She received an OBE in 1974 for her services to drama and would later receive a CBE in 2011.

Ever since the fifties, Sheila has enjoyed a thriving career that covered television, film, theater and radio. The first television role that she landed was acting in The Rag Trade, a BBC sitcom from the sixties. She has also acted and directed for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

She was married but her husband John Thaw ultimately passed away. After that she wrote a memoir that detailed their marriage titled The Two of Us. The book was a number one bestseller and also won her the British Book Award for the Author of the Year.

The memoir of her widowhood Just Me was released in 2007 and also became a bestseller. She has written several books in different genre and each of them is worth a read. Today Hancock resides in London and France.

Miss Carter’s War is a 2014 book by Sheila Hancock. If you are a big fan of historical fiction, you might really enjoy this book. Escape from the everyday and into the fictional past by getting your hands on a copy of this book that will have you turning the pages to find out what happens next.

The year is 1948. Britain is doing the best that it can to recover, dealing with the aftermath of having survived the Second World War. Marguerite Carter is half French and half English and is a beautiful young woman. She has also been through quite a bit. She has not only lost her parents but has made it through a scary war, while working for the SOE behind enemy lines.

Marguerite leaves her partisan lover behind and comes back to England so that she can be one of the first-ever women to get a degree from the University of Cambridge. Now she pins back her auburn curls and does her best to draw a pencil seam up her legs to imitate a stocking and ties up the laces on her black shoes and sets out to pursue her future, working as an English teacher in a grammar school for girls.

Miss Carter has a mission inside of her. She wants to work to fight social injustice, and to prevent war and educate her girls. Going through the different years and following along with Marguerite, Hancock comes up with a picture of England as seen through the eyes and the life of one woman in particular. A fascinating historical fiction work that you won’t want to miss!

Old Rage is a 2022 book by Sheila Hancock. It doesn’t get more honest than this and at times this book will make you laugh and make you cry as the author takes the reader through her own experience with growing older.

Sheila felt that she looked like she was doing a good job of managing old age. She had gone through widowhood and had done her best to thrive during these times. She took on roles in acting that would have been very demanding for even a younger woman and performed them with ease.

She also had many of the things that other people her age do not. She had friends, energy, a family she was devoted to, and a wonderful home. She was still able to recall the lines that she memorized for her acting roles without any problem.

Sheila had made it through the milestones of fifty, seventy and eighty, and was wondering why at 89 years old she suddenly felt so furious. Diagnoses, Brexit and even being bereaved had seemed to knock her from every quarter, and that was all happening before lockdown.

Now she is living on her own and has fallen into the class of being extremely vulnerable. She discovers that she yells at the television and is even talking to the birds. But she is also able to take a look at her life, which includes her work, her family, her beliefs, and her future, even if it feels fairly uncomfortable to face it.

Inside this wonderful and feisty memoir, one of the best loved actors in Britain’s entertainment business talks more about her ninth decade and her life. Honest and funny, Sheila talks about living her life as a mother sister, daughter, actor, widow, and friend, looking at a world that is entirely different from the wartime world that she remembered from when she was young.

Despite her age and her feelings of rage, Hancock concludes that there are always ways and reasons to find joy. Check out Old Rage for a wonderful read that will stay with you long after turning the final page.