Amanda Roberts
About the Author
Author, bookworm and history lover, Amanda grew up in Derbyshire but has lived in Oxfordshire since 1997.
Her first novel, The Roots of the Tree, was published in 2014. Based on a true family story, that one was close to her heart, but her real love is historical fiction.
She published her second novel in September 2023. The Woman in the Painting is a dual timeline/time-slip, set in 1645 and 2019 in the Oxfordshire village where she lives. It won a silver medal in the Coffee Pot Book Club’s 2023 Historical Fiction Book of the Year Awards in the Time Slip/Dual Narrative/Time Travel category.
Lady of the Quay, is the first of a series, introducing Isabella Gillhespy and set in Berwick upon Tweed in 1560. It won a bronze medal in the Coffee Pot Book Club’s 2025 Historical Fiction Book of the Year Awards in The Tudors & The Stuarts category and was a finalist in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2025.
Her new novel, Secrets of the Penny University, sequel to The Woman in the Painting, is another dual timeline/time-slip, set in 1656 and 2025 in an Oxford coffee shop.
Books
Lady of the Quay Historical
| Buy online – 999
OxIA Bookstore price – 900
Isabella is the only child of a wealthy merchant. After he dies, her life takes an unexpected turn as she makes a series of startling discoveries that leave her facing financial ruin and suspected of crimes that would threaten her freedom and her lif...Show more
Secrets of the Penny University Historical
| Buy online – 999
OxIA Bookstore price – 900
From the first time Amy steps foot in the building on Oxford’s High Street that she and her husband intend to turn into a coffee shop, she is disturbed by an oppressive atmosphere. After she discovers an unusual painting on a wall, the life of a yo...Show more
The Roots of the Tree Historical
| Buy online – 599
OxIA Bookstore price – 500
Based on true events, this is the story of a woman, in her early 60s, who is forced to reassess everything she has believed to be true in her life when she makes a staggering discovery. Show more
The Woman in the Painting Historical
| Buy online – 899
OxIA Bookstore price – 800
When Hannah picks up a ring that had lain buried in her garden for centuries and it gives her a physical shock, she embarks on a quest to discover who had once owned it, and how they lost it. Show more