Rona Randall Books In Order

Publication Order of The Potters Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Rona Randall was a published English author.

Also going by the name Rona Shambrook, this author was born with the maiden name of Green on June 16, 1911. She passed away later, but the date of her passing is unknown.

The British author has left behind a rich legacy, having written a prolific amount of novels in the fiction and nonfiction genre. She has written gothic novels and romance novels, using the pen name of Rona Randall, which she employed from a period of time of 1942 to 2001.

The author also decided to use her name Rona Shambrook, her married name, as a pseudonym as well as the pen name Virginia Standage. Her earliest book came out in 1947 and is titled She Married a Doctor. Her book Broken Tapestry won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 1970 from the Romantic Novelists’ Association.

Rona was born in Birkenhead, located in Cheshire, England. She has been educated in London at Pitmans College, attended the Royal Society of Art and graduated with her diploma in English literature, and attended the Birkenhead School of Art Literary.

She married Frederick Walter Shambrook in 1938 and the couple had a son together. Before writing, the author was an actress. She also was employed as a journalist and worked for Amalgamated Press, a publishing company, as a sub-director. Rona also served as the assistant editor of George Newnes Ltd.

She has been published for many decades but primarily started her career by writing doctor and nurse romance stories. She then went into gothic romances for a time but when the demand for such stories in the genre became soft she switched over to writing historical mystery romances.

In addition to writing fiction, Randall has released books on topics like clothing such as The Model Wife: Nineteenth Century Style. She also wrote the book Writing Popular Fiction in 1992, which served as a guide to writers.

The Drayton Legacy is the first book in the Potters saga by Rona Randall. This book first came out for readers to enjoy in 1985 and is one of those classic historical romances that you love to see!

Set in the eighteenth century, main character Joseph Drayton is in a pickle. He doesn’t want to let his sister get married, and on top of that, he intends to get rid of her suitor and to make him hit the road. The only problem with his little plan is he has no idea the amount of chaos he is stirring up for the future.

Jessica has a lover, and she has become pregnant by him. Now she is in a sore spot of trouble, and the predicament that she has found herself in is about to have deep consequences in this small Staffordshire village of Burslem, where everyone in the community is very close.

Joseph Drayton is the Master Potter, a man who runs the family business with an efficiency that comes from a mind that is intent on keeping the business going and providing for them now and into the future to come. He may wear velvet and lace, but his private ambition to do well is not to be impeded on by anyone.

These could extend to the gypsy girl Meg, who works hard in his turning sheds. They definitely do not extend to Martin, his younger brother who is quite gifted. Martin has to work in the pot bank run by Joseph for five years thanks to his indentured bond. He does it as part of the agreement, but he is always distracted by creative imaginings about how he will be able to express himself through his art in a more real and personal way when he inherits his Drayton legacy.

Simon Kendall is his friend, a canal digger who also happens to be a genius. He may not be able to write or read, but he has a keen mind and the intellect of an engineer and an architect. His vision may be able to take the pottery trade and turn it into something else entirely– something better.

If you love historical romances that also happen to feel like a real story that was happening at the time, you cannot get any better than The Drayton Legacy! First in Rona Randall’s Potters Saga, this is an interesting book with great characters and random humorous moments that showcases some of the very best classic romance writing of the eighties.

The Potter’s Niece is the second novel in the Potters Saga by Rona Randall. This book first came out in 1987 and takes place in England in the eighteenth century. Read if you are a fan of historical fiction or loved the first book in this saga and want to continue on!

This is the type of story that can bring you back to a different time. Only in this go around, the story resumes twenty years after the occurrences of The Drayton Legacy.

Time may have passed, but the potteries remain. Joseph Drayton has since passed away and Martin has taken his place as the Master Potter, proving some of his ambitions had a chance of coming true. The man known as Max Freeman is thought to be dead. Olivia is his daughter, one he never knew, and is fighting her own battle against not only prejudice but her mother’s ambitions. Phoebe is pretty, and her selfish nature knows no bounds.

Olivia has decided to leave her claim to the Tremain estates. Instead, she chooses to join up with Drayton Pottery. Her family is shocked by the move, as she will become a laborer on the low end of then scale at the firm run by her uncle.

Olivia is excited to start at the bottom and to work her way up from humble beginnings. While she is busy doing so, the Freemans have come together with the Draytons by way of marriage, and are furiously scheming.

Joseph’s widow Agatha is hoping that she can get the Tremain inheritance so that she can give it to Lionel, her son. Lionel wants to know why they found his father’s body in an outhouse naked. Phoebe is conning her mother in law and caught between being at the security of her home and her new lover’s charms.

Can Olivia requite her love with the village farrier, the only man she can ever love? Or will she find things too complicated? Find out all the answers in The Potter’s Niece by Rona Randall!