Wendy Holden (author, born 1961)

Publications

Novels

• The Sense of Paper, about a former war correspondent running from the ghosts of her past, was published by Random House, New York in 2006 and as an e-book in 2013;
• Mr Scraps, 2013, a novella published as an ebook.
• The cruelty of Beauty, about a female glassmaker in pre-revolution Czechoslovakia - published by Mlada Fronta in 2019.
• The novelisation of the film The Full Monty, which became an international bestseller in nine languages and was published as a classroom aide

  Non-fiction titles

• Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance and Hope, published in 2015
• 10 Mindful Minutes: Giving Our Children and Ourselves the Social and Emotional Skills to Reduce Stress and Anxiety for Healthier, Happier Lives with Goldie Hawn, 2011, an international bestseller;
• Uggie, The Artist: My Story, 2012, a canine memoir published in five countries.
• Shell Shock: The Psychological Trauma of War, which accompanied a four-part television documentary.
• Her first book, Unlawful Carnal Knowledge about the controversial Irish abortion case, was banned across Ireland;

  Biographies

• Lady Blue Eyes, 2011, a memoir of Frank Sinatra’s widow Barbara, a New York Times bestseller;
• A Lotus Grows in the Mud, 2005, the autobiography of Goldie Hawn, a New York Times bestseller;
• Memories Are Made of This, 2004, a biography of Dean Martin as seen by his daughter, held by 1,083 libraries according to WorldCat;
• Behind Enemy Lines: the true story of a French Jewish spy in Nazi Germany, 2002, the autobiography of Marthe Cohn;
• Tomorrow to Be Brave, 2001, an autobiography of Susan Travers, the only woman in the French Foreign Legion during WWII;
• Till the Sun Grows Cold, a mother’s account of her daughter’s life and death in war-torn Sudan;
• , the autobiography of Don Felder, former lead guitarist of the Eagles;
• Kill Switch, an account of a former British soldier wrongly jailed in Afghanistan;
• Central 822, her autobiography of Carol Bristow, one of Scotland Yard’s first ever female detectives, was serialised globally on BBC Radio.
• Footprints in the Snow, the story of a courageous paraplegic, was made into a television film starring Caroline Quentin and Kevin Whately;
• Haatchi & Little B, the heartwarming tale of a boy with Schwartz–Jampel syndrome and his three-legged dog published in four countries in 2014.