Comma Singles Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Fewer Things |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Cave |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Skirt |
2012 |
Buy |
| Hitting Trees with Sticks |
2012 |
Buy |
| Crosswords |
2013 |
Buy |
| A Wolf |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Truth |
2013 |
Buy |
| Sports Leader |
2013 |
Buy |
| Earthquakes |
2013 |
Buy |
| Tamagotchi |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Truck to Berlin |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Virgin and the Soldier |
2013 |
Buy |
| Red Enters the Eye |
2013 |
Buy |
| An Industrial Evolution |
2013 |
Buy |
| Mr Carlton |
2013 |
Buy |
| A Paris Story |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Bicycle Express |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Flight into Egypt |
2013 |
Buy |
| Abulafia |
2013 |
Buy |
| Everything Is Moving, Everything Is Joined |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Pitch |
2013 |
Buy |
| Morphogenesis |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Heart of Denis Noble |
2013 |
Buy |
| What Kind of Dog |
2013 |
Buy |
| Crystal Night |
2013 |
Buy |
| My Soul to Keep |
2017 |
Buy |
| Red Lights |
2017 |
Buy |
| Many Years Ago, I Was Standing In A Meydan |
2017 |
Buy |
| The War of All Against All |
2017 |
Buy |
| Easy on The Rose’s |
2017 |
Buy |
| The Pardon List |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Mastiff |
2018 |
Buy |
| Heavy Clay Soil: A story from the Midlands Rising |
2018 |
Buy |
| A Fiery Flag Unfurled in Coleman Street |
2018 |
Buy |
| Trying Lydia |
2018 |
Buy |
| Banner Bright |
2018 |
Buy |
| Kick-Start: A story on the National Blind March |
2018 |
Buy |
| For the Tape |
2018 |
Buy |
| There Are Five Ways Out Of This Room |
2018 |
Buy |
| Spun |
2018 |
Buy |
| Rivers of Blood |
2018 |
Buy |
| May Hobbs |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Stars are in the Sky |
2018 |
Buy |
| Exterior Paint |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Beckhams are in Betty’s |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Opposite of Drowning |
2018 |
Buy |
| Never Going Underground |
2018 |
Buy |
| Conrad Street |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Turd Tree |
2018 |
Buy |
| Expectant Management |
2018 |
Buy |
| Withen |
2018 |
Buy |
| Bed 45 |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Poison Tree |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Abandoned Person’s Tale |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Gardens of Babylon |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Widening Gyre |
2018 |
Buy |
| Kindling |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Sea-God |
2018 |
Buy |
| Into Tiny Pieces |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Hare’s Declaration |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Birds of Kipsala Island |
2018 |
Buy |
| Bird of Paradise |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Slow Man |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Beginner’s Guide to Smuggling |
2018 |
Buy |
| Storyteller |
2018 |
Buy |
| Return Ticket |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Child in the Lock |
2018 |
Buy |
| Benzene Dreams |
2018 |
Buy |
| From Above |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Tank |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Biggest Bridge in the World |
2018 |
Buy |
| Inertia |
2018 |
Buy |
| Flypaper |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Dependant’s Tale |
2018 |
Buy |
| Testicular Cancer vs. the Behemoth |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Appellant’s Tale |
2018 |
Buy |
| Change for Low Rixham |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Lover’s Tale |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Sayer of the Sooth |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Longhand Option |
2019 |
Buy |
| Passing |
2019 |
Buy |
| Living in Hope |
2021 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Kindling |
2018 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Hope and Glory |
2022 |
Buy |
| All That We’ve Got |
2024 |
N/A |
Jendella Benson is a British-Nigerian writer whose debut novel, Hope and Glory (2022), tells the story of a young woman who returns to her family in South London after her father’s sudden death. The novel explores family secrets, generational conflict, and the British-Nigerian experience.
Her second novel, All That We’ve Got (2024), continues her focus on contemporary British life and family dynamics. She has also contributed to the Comma Singles series with the short story Kindling (2018), part of a large multi-author collection of individual short stories published by Comma Press.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Jendella Benson written?
Jendella Benson has written 85 books across three series.
What was Jendella Benson's first book?
Jendella Benson’s first book is Fewer Things, published in 2011.
What is Jendella Benson best known for?
Benson is best known for Hope and Glory (2022), her debut novel about a young British-Nigerian woman returning to her family in South London after the death of her father. She has also contributed the short story Kindling to the Comma Singles series.