Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Mr. Rosenblum’s List / Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English | 2008 | Buy |
| The Novel in the Viola / The House at Tyneford | 2011 | Buy |
| The Gallery of Vanished Husbands | 2013 | Buy |
| The Song Collector / The Song of Hartgrove Hall | 2015 | Buy |
| House of Gold | 2018 | Buy |
| I, Mona Lisa | 2022 | Buy |
| Fair Rosaline | 2023 | Buy |
| I Am Cleopatra | 2025 | Buy |
Natasha Solomons is a British author whose novels move between twentieth-century domestic life and much older historical settings. Her debut, Mr. Rosenblum’s List (2008), follows a German-Jewish refugee in postwar England who creates a list of things he must do to become properly English, including building a golf course in the Dorset countryside. It was a warm, comic novel that introduced Solomons as a writer interested in identity, displacement, and what it means to belong somewhere.
Her middle novels stayed closer to home. The Novel in the Viola (published in the US as The House at Tyneford, 2011) is set on the eve of World War II, while The Gallery of Vanished Husbands (2013) follows a Jewish woman in 1960s London whose portrait by a young artist changes her life. The Song Collector (2015) and House of Gold (2018) continued in this vein, blending family drama with period detail and a recurring interest in art and music.
More recently, Solomons has shifted toward reimagining well-known figures from art and literature. I, Mona Lisa is narrated by Lisa Gherardini, the woman behind Leonardo’s portrait. Fair Rosaline takes Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and retells it from the point of view of the woman Romeo abandoned. I Am Cleopatra (2025) continues this pattern. These later books share a focus on women whose stories have been told by others, now given the chance to speak for themselves.