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Joanna Cannon Biography & Facts

Joanna Cannon is a British author. Biography Joanna Cannon grew up in Derbyshire; her father was a plumber and her mother owned a giftshop. She left school aged 15, and returned to study for her A-Levels in her thirties. She attended Denstone College, Uttoxeter, and the University of Leicester Medical School, from which she graduated in 2010. She worked as a junior doctor, before specialising in psychiatry and then ceasing to practise. She lives in the Peak District with her family and her dog. Cannon is best known for her debut novel The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, published in 2016, which was shortlisted for the British Book Industry Awards. This was followed by Three Things About Elsie (2018), and a memoir, Breaking and Mending (September 2019). Her third novel, A Tidy Ending was released in 2022. References . Discover the Joanna Cannon popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Joanna Cannon books.

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  • The Pretty Delicious Cafe synopsis, comments

    The Pretty Delicious Cafe

    Danielle Hawkins

    One flaky family. One exboyfriend who won't go away. And one handsome stranger who probably will ... For fans of Doc Martin and Monica McInerney, a warm, witty novel, brimming with...

  • A Love Story for Bewildered Girls synopsis, comments

    A Love Story for Bewildered Girls

    Emma Morgan

    'An utterly gorgeous novel. It will forever hold my heart in its pages' Pandora Sykes, cohost of The HighLow podcastGrace loves a woman. Annie loves a man. Violet isn't quite sure....

  • Anti-Social synopsis, comments

    Anti-Social

    Nick Pettigrew

    'AntiSocial is brutally honest, exceptionally funny and terribly sad a scything indictment of broken 21st century Britain. I could not put it down.' THE SECRET BARRISTER'A fascina...

  • Turn Of The Tide synopsis, comments

    Turn Of The Tide

    Rosie Harris

    Let muchloved multimillion copy bestseller Rosie Harris sweep you away to Liverpool in this captivating and emotionally charged saga. Perfect for readers of Dilly Court, Kitty Nea...

  • Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves synopsis, comments

    Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves

    Rachel Malik

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2018'A surprisingly touching account of hidden lives forced out of the shadows' Sunday TimesOne day in 1940 Rene Hargreaves walks out on her ...

  • The Forced Redundancy Film Club synopsis, comments

    The Forced Redundancy Film Club

    Brian Finnegan

    'A warm, touching, funny, sexy, romantic, thoroughly enjoyable, brilliantlyplotted pageturner ... a ray of sunshine' Hot PressFive colleagues. One dreadful day. And the biggest sho...

  • The Museum of You synopsis, comments

    The Museum of You

    Carys Bray

    Clover Quinn was a surprise. She used to imagine she was the good kind, now she’s not sure. She’d like to ask Dad about it, but growing up in the saddest chapter of someone else’s ...

  • Wise Women synopsis, comments

    Wise Women

    Carole McKenzie

    'A woman is like a teabag only when in hot water do you realise how strong she is' Nancy ReaganWomen are never at a loss to express themselves, and smart women will have somethin...

  • Small Hours synopsis, comments

    Small Hours

    Bobby Palmer

    'Powerful' JOANNA GLEN'Beautiful' KATE SAWYER'A triumph' JENNIE GODFREYThe eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and the Egg.I...

  • The Heathrow Doctor synopsis, comments

    The Heathrow Doctor

    Dr Stephanie Green

    An exhilarating insight into the life of a doctor at Heathrow Airport, where the truth is often stranger than fiction.For over a decade, Stephanie Green was a doctor oncall for one...

  • The Power of Dreams synopsis, comments

    The Power of Dreams

    Rosie Harris

    Fans of Dilly Court, Kitty Neale, Emma Hornby and Rosie Goodwin will love this vivid and compelling saga, set around Tiger Bay and Cardiff. Muchloved multimillion copy bestseller ...

  • Sweet Home synopsis, comments

    Sweet Home

    Carys Bray

    They say there's no place like home. It's where the heart is...Meet the little boy who believes in miracles.Meet the mother who loves to bring babies home from the newborn aisle of...

  • Waiting for Love synopsis, comments

    Waiting for Love

    Rosie Harris

    With all her signature warmth, wonderful characters and unforgettable drama, lose yourself in this moving saga of one girl's battle for happiness in the face of a life of shattered...

  • A Shorter History of Tractors in Ukrainian with Handcuffs synopsis, comments

    A Shorter History of Tractors in Ukrainian with Handcuffs

    Marina Lewycka

    Marina Lewycka returns to the characters from A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, with a hilarious erotic twist, in this laughoutloud short story, A Shorter History of Tracto...

  • Dot synopsis, comments

    Dot

    Araminta Hall

    The remarkable new novel from the bestselling author of Everything and Nothing‘An emotionally compelling and deeply moving novel – I loved it’ Daisy GoodwinIn a higgledypiggledy ho...

  • HellFire synopsis, comments

    HellFire

    Mia Gallagher

    On a midsummer’s evening a young Dublin woman, Lucy Dolan, prepares for a showdown that will help make sense of a heartbreaking and brutal atrocity that happened thirteen years ear...

  • Horace Winter Says Goodbye synopsis, comments

    Horace Winter Says Goodbye

    Conor Bowman

    Meet Horace Winter and fall in love with life again in this bestselling novel perfect reading for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine'Horace Winter is a character who will...

  • What Milo Saw synopsis, comments

    What Milo Saw

    Virginia Macgregor

    Prepare to fall in love 'A future classic' Clare Mackintosh'We were hooked . . . Brilliant!' Heat 'Have a box of tissues at the ready' Daily Express'A lifeaffirming read' Good Hous...

  • The Trouble with Goats and Sheep synopsis, comments

    The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

    Joanna Cannon

    “I loved this book. It's one of those books that you just want to give to everybody.” Nancy Pearl on NPR’s Morning Edition “An astute, engaging debut” (Publishers Weekly), The Tro...

  • Looking For Eliza synopsis, comments

    Looking For Eliza

    Leaf Arbuthnot

    'Clever, warm and funny' ADAM KAY'Beautifully rendered, thoughtful and original' Pandora Sykes'A marvellous read' Ruth HoganAda is a widowed writer, navigating loneliness in Oxf...

  • Elefant synopsis, comments

    Elefant

    Martin Suter & Jamie Bulloch

    What would you do if you woke up to see a living, breathing, tiny, glowing, pink elephant? If you’re anything like Schoch, who lives on the streets of Zürich and is decidedly down ...

  • Three Things About Elsie synopsis, comments

    Three Things About Elsie

    Joanna Cannon

    The bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a suspenseful and emotionally satisfying novel “infused with warmth and humor” (People) about a lifelong friend...

  • El misterio de las cabras y las ovejas synopsis, comments

    El misterio de las cabras y las ovejas

    Joanna Cannon

    En parte novela de misterio, en parte novela de paso al mundo adulto, este ha sido el debut más elogiado y destacado de 2016 en Gran Bretaña.«Una historia conmovedora, original y m...

  • A Step From Cinnamon Alley synopsis, comments

    A Step From Cinnamon Alley

    Patricia Burns

    A magical love story and a richly detailed evocation of a great city.1909, and life is hard for young Poppy Powers. Her dad has disappearedgone to a season in the North somewhere a...

  • Trying synopsis, comments

    Trying

    Emily Phillips

    'Hilarious, heartbreaking, truthful and bold' Dolly Alderton Meet Olivia Galvin. She knows she's lucky. There's the handsome husband. The soundsprettygoodonpaper job. A house the...

  • Angel of Death synopsis, comments

    Angel of Death

    Richard Shaw

    When Victoria is called in to investigate the theft of valuable marble statues from a north London cemetery, she soon finds out the lives of the cemetery staff are as tangled as th...

  • The Glass House synopsis, comments

    The Glass House

    Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion

    A compelling, addictive novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine told with heart, humour and insight by Anne Buist and The Rosie Project's Graeme SimsionPsychiatry ...

  • Troubled Waters synopsis, comments

    Troubled Waters

    Rosie Harris

    Let muchloved multimillion copy bestseller Rosie Harris take you back in time with this wonderfully evocative, emotional and atmospheric saga of love, life and trauma. Fans of Dill...

  • The Never-Ending Summer synopsis, comments

    The Never-Ending Summer

    Emma Kennedy

    'Emma Kennedy's books are as funny, warm and lifeinspiring as she is' Jenny Colgan'An excellent read. I loved all the characters' Claudia Winkleman'A warm, funny and truly lifeaffi...

  • Needlemouse synopsis, comments

    Needlemouse

    Jane O'Connor

    Time to come out of hibernation...Sylvia Penton has been hibernating for years, it's no wonder she's a little prickly...Sylvia lives alone, dedicating herself to her job at the loc...