Jo Baker Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Samuel Beckett in Company Books

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Jo Baker is a British published author.

Jo is known for writing fictional novels and in addition to writing books has also written for radio. Baker has written for BBC Radio 4 and some of her short stories have been put into a variety of anthologies.

Jo attended Oxford and then Queen’s University, Belfast. She is married and has two children with her husband. They live together in Lancaster, England. Her husband is Daragh Carville, a playwright and screenwriter.

She is known for writing many books but in particular Longbourn, which has been optioned to turn into a film. Her latest book was inspired by Samuel Beckett’s life.

Longbourn is a 2013 novel by Jo Baker. If you’re a big fan of classic novels and love when authors put their own spin on the classics, this might be the perfect book for you. Are you a fan of the work Pride and Prejudice? Well as it turns out, Baker has figured out that this book ended up only being half of the story.

Sarah had often thought that if Elizabeth Bennet were charged with the task of washing her own petticoats, she would probably be sure to take better care of them. In this newly imagined version of Pride and Prejudice, it is the characters who live below the stairs who take the spotlight. The servants are the focus of this story, not the family members that they serve (although they do make appearances).

Sarah is an orphaned housemaid who spends much of her time scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying chamber pots for the household. They may serve the family upstairs, but downstairs at Longbourn, there is just as much intrigue, romance, heartbreak and more happening. They are still real people after all, with real thoughts, lives, feelings, and ambitions and goals of their own.

When a strange new footman comes along, the orderly nature of the servants’ hall could soon be totally upended and put on its head. The classic by Jane Austen gets new life here in a story that channels all that made Downton Abbey so engaging and putting the reader into the privileged position of getting to see how the servants operate.

From the housekeeper to the kitchen maid to what the lower classes go through, it’s all accounted for here. Find out how the other half lives in this stunningly original and fun reinvention of the Jane Austen classic that so many readers know and love by getting your hands on a copy of Longbourn today!

The Midnight News is a 2023 novel by Jo Baker. This is an incredible story that contends with one woman and how she comes apart during the Blitz. If you love historical fiction, you will love this story of World War II intrigue that features love, danger, intrigue and more in a work that will have you staying up late to see how it ends.

The year is 1940. Charlotte Richmond is twenty years old and is watching breathlessly from the window of the attic as enemy planes make their way over London. She is still grieving the death of her brother who she cared about immensely but never came home from France.

Charlotte is trying to keep herself from holding down a typist job at the Ministry of Information while sharing her confidences with her best friend Elena (while they also sneak some gin) and trying to stay out of the way of her overbearing father.

Making her way to work, Charlotte frequently sees a boy who feeds the birds. He provides a little bit of joy that she did not expect among all of the rubble left by the Blitz. But it does not manage to overcome the devastation that she sees every day. After another loss, Charlotte gets a strange sense of foreboding.

She feels that someone is out there in the darkness and is targeting her friends– and is now following her. Charlotte becomes increasingly suspicious and full of grief and her nerves end up becoming more and more frayed as time goes on. She doesn’t know who to trust and at times feels that she cannot trust even herself. This is a story of war and love and the journey of one young woman as she tries her best to survive trying times. Will she make it through? Read this riveting story from Jo Baker to find out!