About Jane Holland

Jane Holland celebrating the publication of THE QUEEN'S SECRET, written as Victoria Lamb and published by Transworld.

Jane Holland is a poet and novelist with dozens of published novels, novellas and short stories under this name and others. The middle child of romance legend Charlotte Lamb, she grew up in Essex and later the Isle of Man before returning to the British mainland as an adult. She read English at Oxford as a mature undergraduate, but left early to concentrate on her developing career as a commercial writer.

She writes thrillers as Jane Holland. Contemporary romance as Beth Good. WWII sagas as Betty Walker. Historical romance as Elizabeth Moss. Historical fiction and YA as Victoria Lamb. Feel-good fiction as Hannah Coates.

Her latest novel is: WARTIME WITH THE CORNISH GIRLS (Avon Books, 2021) as Betty Walker. 

 

She also has a new thriller out (late 2021) with Lume Books: SOMEONE TO CARE.

Fiction

Since her debut novel, KISSING THE PINK (Sceptre, 1999), her commercial fiction has been published variously under the names Jane Holland, Victoria Lamb, Elizabeth Moss and Beth Good, and translated into numerous languages.

Her novel WITCHSTRUCK won the RNA Young Adult Romantic Novel of the Year in 2013, and she is also the author of 21 WAYS TO WRITE A COMMERCIAL NOVEL.

 

GIRL NUMBER ONE was her first thriller, and has sold nearly 100K copies to date, and been a #1 Kindle UK Bestseller twice! Other thrillers under the name Jane Holland include LOCK THE DOOR, FORGET HER NAME, ALL YOUR SECRETS, and LAST BIRD SINGING.

Her first full length novel as Beth Good is WINTER WITHOUT YOU. Further books in this romantic series, set in a fictional Cornish resort called Pethporro, include ALL SUMMER WITH YOU and A VERY CORNISH CHRISTMAS.

She also writes World War II sagas as Betty Walker. The first two books in her Cornish Girls series are: WARTIME WITH THE CORNISH GIRLS and CHRISTMAS WITH THE CORNISH GIRLS (Avon Books).

Poetry

Her earliest publications were in poetry; since 1994, she has both edited poetry magazines and appeared within their pages, and has published six collections of poetry, winning a major Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. For an overview, FLASH BANG: NEW & SELECTED POEMS is available from Amazon, and she sometimes blogs on poetry at Raw Light.

Life

Nomadic by nature, Jane Holland currently resides in Devon with her husband and young family, and is a keen home schooler. When not writing, she also works as an astrologer. In a previous incarnation, she was a semi-professional snooker player and reached No. 24 in the women’s world rankings.