Julie Houston is the author of sixteen novels set in and around the fictional West Yorkshire village of Westenbury – these are published by Aria in the UK:

Julie’s novels have been Kindle bestsellers, with A VILLAGE AFFAIR, which featured on the Kindle Top 100 bestseller list for almost a year, being the seventh most-read UK fiction e-book in the year and a Kindle top 5 bestseller.

SING ME A SECRET won the RNA’s 2021 Sapere Books Popular Romantic Fiction Award.

Julie is Yorkshire-born and bred and lives near Huddersfield. She worked as a teacher for many years, still doing supply work. Additionally, she sits as a magistrate in West Yorkshire.

Her novels have sold 500,000 copies worldwide, and translation rights have been sold in Brazil, Denmark, Germany, and Hungary.