What Books Has Ann Chamberlin Written?

Ann Chamberlin is the author of historical fiction and family oral history, including The Merlin of St. Gilles' Well and Clogs and Shawls. The available site material confirms those two titles and describes Clogs and Shawls as a family memoir built from interviews with her grandmother and six surviving great-aunts. If you are looking for a complete bibliography, the source page does not provide one; it highlights these works and their background rather than listing every title.

Confirmed titles on annchamberlin.com

The Merlin of St. Gilles' Well

The page quotes Diana Gabaldon, author of the Outlander series, praising the book as "wonderful," with a "terrific premise" and writing that is "literally—magic, evoking another world, an older time." That places the book in a historical or legendary mode, though the excerpt does not give a full plot summary.

Clogs and Shawls

This is the title with the most detail on the page. It is described as:

• A family memoir and oral immigrant family history
• Based on interviews with Chamberlin's grandmother and six of her surviving great-aunts
• Focused on eight daughters of Mary Jane Jones and Ralph Robinson Whitaker
• Set partly in Bradford, Yorkshire, in the early twentieth century
• Concerned with poverty, factory work, Mormon conversion, and migration to Salt Lake City

The page notes that most of the girls left school at age twelve to work in terrible factory conditions. Their mother converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1901 and became a backbone of the Mormon community in Yorkshire. The daughters followed her into the faith and eventually many carried on and prospered in Salt Lake City.

The book weaves novelistic passages with first-person narratives. That combination is the key to its style: it is not a conventional novel, and it is not a dry genealogy. It uses the relatives' own voices alongside reconstructed scenes.

Awards and recognition

The page states that Clogs and Shawls won:

• Association of Mormon Letters Best Audiobook 2020, narrated by Jacqueline de Boer
• Mormon History Association Best Personal History/Memoir Award

It also includes praise from Kerry William Bate, who calls Chamberlin a "really gifted writer" who gives vivid insights into the social history of the time and place while bringing the family members to life.

What the page does not answer

The site excerpt does not provide:

• A full list of Ann Chamberlin's books
• Publication dates for the titles mentioned
• A complete series order
• Prices, formats, or where to buy the books

So if your question is "What has Ann Chamberlin written?", the confirmed answer from this page is The Merlin of St. Gilles' Well and Clogs and Shawls, with Clogs and Shawls documented in the most detail. For a complete bibliography, you would need to check a fuller author page, a library catalog, or a bookseller listing rather than relying on this homepage excerpt alone.