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Barbara Cleverly

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in The United Kingdom

May 24, 1940

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Barbara Cleverly was born in the north of England and is a graduate of Durham University. A former teacher, she has spent her working life in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk; she now lives in Cambridge. She has one son and five step-children.

Her Joe Sandilands series of books set against the background of the British Raj was inspired by the contents of a battered old tin trunk that she found in her attic. Out of it spilled two centuries of memories of a family – especially a great uncle who spent a lot of time in India – whose exploits and achievements marched in time with the flowering of the British Empire.

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Barbara Cleverly’s books

Average rating: 3.68 · 13,192 ratings · 1,597 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Last Kashmiri Rose (Joe Sandilands, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 3,108 ratings — published 2001 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ragtime in Simla (Joe Sandilands #2) 3.82 avg rating — 1,338 ratings — published 2002 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Damascened Blade (Joe Sandilands, #3) 3.76 avg rating — 993 ratings — published 2003 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Palace Tiger (Joe Sandilands, #4) 3.77 avg rating — 833 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tug of War (Joe Sandilands, #6) 3.84 avg rating — 751 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tomb of Zeus (Laetitia Talbot, #1) 3.31 avg rating — 763 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not My Blood (Joe Sandilands #10) 3.73 avg rating — 767 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bee's Kiss (Joe Sandilands, #5) 3.71 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Folly Du Jour (Joe Sandilands, #7) 3.61 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blood Royal (Joe Sandilands #9) 3.62 avg rating — 548 ratings — published 2011 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Joe Sandilands (13 books)
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Quotes by Barbara Cleverly

“Money closes more than mouths, it closes minds.”
― Barbara Cleverly, Not My Blood

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“But that’s ghastly old Chepstow. Drunk as a lord again!’ ‘If that’s Chepstow he is a lord,’ objected Dedham, trying to turn for a better view. ‘He’s entitled, you might say.”
― Barbara Cleverly, The Blood Royal: A Joe Sandilands Murder Mystery

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“All women become like their mothers.”
― Barbara Cleverly, Fall of Angels

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Polls

2013 Empire Challenge: Fiction - The East (incl. the Far East & the Middle East)

The Village in the Jungle by Leonard Woolf

6 votes, 19.4%

The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng

6 votes, 19.4%

The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell

4 votes, 12.9%

The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott

4 votes, 12.9%

Rain and Other South Sea Stories by W. Somerset Maugham

2 votes, 6.5%

The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd

2 votes, 6.5%

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

2 votes, 6.5%

Far Eastern Tales by W. Somerset Maugham

2 votes, 6.5%

All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani

1 vote, 3.2%

The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly

1 vote, 3.2%

The Harbour by Francesca Brill

1 vote, 3.2%

The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw

0 votes, 0.0%

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

0 votes, 0.0%

31 total votes

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