Diane Allen was born in Leeds, but raised at her family's farm deep in the Yorkshire Dales. After working as a glass engraver, raising a family, and looking after an ill father, she found her true niche in life, joining a large print publishing firm in 1990. Rising through the firm, she is now the general manager and has recently been made Honorary Vice President of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Diane and her husband Ronnie live in Long Preston in the Yorkshire Dales, and have two children and four beautiful grandchildren.
Genres: Sagas
New and upcoming books
Series
Windfell Manor Trilogy
1. The Mistress of Windfell Manor (2016)
2. The Windfell Family Secrets (2017)
3. Daughter of the Dales (2018)
1. The Mistress of Windfell Manor (2016)
2. The Windfell Family Secrets (2017)
3. Daughter of the Dales (2018)
Novels
For the Sake of Her Family (2012)
For A Mother's Sins (2013)
For a Fathers Pride (2014)
Like Father, Like Son (2015)
The Miner's Wife (2019)
The Girl from the Tanner's Yard (2020)
A Precious Daughter (2021)
A Child of the Dales (2022)
The Yorkshire Farm Girl (2023)
A Wartime in the Dales (2024)
Secrets in the Dales (2025)
For A Mother's Sins (2013)
For a Fathers Pride (2014)
Like Father, Like Son (2015)
The Miner's Wife (2019)
The Girl from the Tanner's Yard (2020)
A Precious Daughter (2021)
A Child of the Dales (2022)
The Yorkshire Farm Girl (2023)
A Wartime in the Dales (2024)
Secrets in the Dales (2025)
Collections
Award nominations
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Diane Allen recommends
The Winter Baby (2017)
Sheila Newberry
"Reading a Sheila Newberry book is like having dinner with your mother in her warm and cosy kitchen."
Welcome Home (2015)
Margaret Dickinson
"Margaret Dickinson's, Welcome Home is an outstanding story of love and war set in the bleakness of WW2. It will tug at your heart-strings, make you cry, smile and leave you wanting to read more by this wonderful author."
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