Phillipa Ashley

Agent: Broo Doherty

Phillipa Ashley studied English at Oxford before working as a copywriter and journalist. Her first novel, Decent Exposure won the Romantic Novelists Association New Writers Award and in 2009, it was filmed as a US TV movie called 12 Men of Christmas starring Kristin Chenoweth and Josh Hopkins. Miranda's Mount (or Return To Castle Bay) won Best Ebook at the Festival of Romance Reader Awards 2012 and It Happened One Night (or The Little Deli By The Lake) was shortlisted in 2013.

As Pippa Croft, Phillipa also writes as the Oxford Blue series which is published by Penguin.

She lives in a Staffordshire village with her husband and has a grown-up daughter. When she's not writing, she loves falling off surf boards and following Poldark around in a camper van.

Books by Phillipa Ashley

  • Second Chance Summer, June 2024

    Four Weddings and a Christmas, November 2023

    A Secret Cornish Summer, June 2023

    Wish You Were Here, March 2023

    Return to Cornish Bay, February 2023

    Just Say Yes, January 2023

    It Should Have Been Me, December 2022

    The Christmas Holiday, November 2022

    A Golden Cornish Summer, June 2022

    A Special Cornish Christmas, November 2021

    An Endless Cornish Summer, March 2021

    A Surprise Christmas Wedding, October 2020

    A Perfect Cornish Escape, June 2020 (Porthmellow Book 3)

    A Perfect Cornish Christmas, October 2019 (Porthmellow Book 2)

    The Love Solution, October 2019 (AS ASHLEY CROFT)

    A Perfect Cornish Summer, April 2019 (Porthmellow Book 1)

    Summer on the Little Cornish Isles: the Starfish Studio, July 2018 (Little Cornish Isles Book 3)

    Spring on the Little Cornish Isles: the Flower Farm, April 2018 (Little Cornish Isles Book 2)

    Christmas on the Little Cornish Isles: the Driftwood Inn, September 2017 (Little Cornish Isles Book 1)

    Confetti at the Cornish Café, May 2017 (Cornish Café book 3)

    Fever Cure, October 2016

    Christmas at the Cornish Cafe, October 2016 (Cornish Café book 2)

    Brief Encounters (co-author), April 2016

    Summer at the Cornish Café, May 2016 (Cornish Café book 1)

    Third Time Lucky, October 2014 (Oxford Blue Book 3)

    The Second Time I Saw You, May 2014 (Oxford Blue Book 2)

    The First Time We Met, February 2014 (Oxford Blue Book 1)

    The Little Deli By the Lake, June 2013

    Dating Mr. December, November 2010

    Decent Exposure, April 2009