About Me
Historical author AnneMarie Brear was born in a small town in N.S.W. Australia, to English parents from Yorkshire, and is the youngest of five children. From an early age she loved reading, working her way through the Enid Blyton stories, before moving onto Catherine Cookson’s novels as a teenager.
Living in England during the 1980s and more recently, AnneMarie developed a love of history from visiting grand old English houses and this grew into a fascination with what may have happened behind their walls over their long existence.
Her enjoyment of visiting old country estates and castles when travelling and, her interest in genealogy and researching her family tree, has been put to good use, providing backgrounds and names for her historical novels which are mainly set in Yorkshire or Australia between Victorian times and WWII.
A long and winding road to publication led to her first novel being published in 2006. She has now published over thirty family saga historical novels, becoming an Amazon UK best seller.
Her novel, The Slum Angel, won a gold medal at the USA Reader's Favourite International Awards in 2019.
AnneMarie won a silver medal for The Market Stall Girl in 2021.
Two of her books have been nominated for the Romance Writer’s Australia Ruby Award and the In’dtale Magazine Rone award.
A Distant Horizon was a finalist in the RNA Romantic Saga Award 2022.
AnneMarie lives in the Southern Highlands of N.S.W. Australia.
Writing full time as a career as always been a dream of mine. Something that came true in 2019. It goes without saying that such a dream was only possible because of my lovely readers, who enjoy my books. Their reviews and messages mean so much to me.
Also, it is with deep love that I thank my husband and family for their unwavering support.