About Amanda Roberts
Amanda Roberts is an award-winning reporter and magazine editor with over 30 years’ experience of specialist business-to-business titles and events.
Her first novel, The Roots of the Tree, was published in 2014. Since then she has written a short story, some children’s stories and two more novels. The second of these full novels – The Woman in the Painting – was published in September 2023.
Amanda’s third novel, Lady of the Quay, publishing on May 10, 2025, is set in 1560, Elizabethan Berwick-upon-Tweed. It’s a historical thriller, the first of a new series, with an enticing heroine.
Amanda is a member of The Society of Authors, The Historical Novel Society, West Oxfordshire Writers and Oxford Independent Authors Group.
Amanda is also part of the 1in200.uk scheme, which supports independent Oxfordshire authors to get their books into independent bookshops and other stores, such as coffee shops. She featured in an interview with BBC Oxfordshire about the scheme.
Amanda is also available for author talks.
Contact her for more information.
Novels
I really loved this book. It’s a great story and a real page turner. It’s the story of one family’s response when a devastating secret comes to light.