This is a list of books about or relating to the British soap opera EastEnders. The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast on 19 February 1985. ...

Non-fiction books

EastEnders Who's Who by Kate Lock

• EastEnders: The Inside Story

SMITH, Julia and HOLLAND, Tony (1987, BBC Books, ISBN 0-563-20601-2)

The story of how EastEnders made it to the small screen, by the soap's creators.

• Public Secrets: EastEnders and its Audience

BUCKINGHAM, David (1987, BFI, ISBN 0-85170-210-4)

It analyses the organisational pressures faced by the producers when creating the programme. It also examines the processes of how the audience was marked out. The author points out that ratings success can cause high profile controversies. He also notes that EastEnders was brought to the screen without any solid empirical research and was based on ‘professional intuition’.

• EastEnders Special

LYNCH, Tony and BAIN, Morag (1988, Grandreams, ISBN 0-86227-626-8)

• The Colour Black: Black Images in British Television

DANIELS, Therese and GERSON, Jane (eds.) (1989)

An examination of the representation of black people on television.

The section on EastEnders begins with the early impressions of Christine Geraghty (from an article in Marxism Today, August 1985). She gives qualified approval to the soap but notes that although there were several black characters in EastEnders, the norm was represented by the white working class Fowler and Beale families.

• The EastEnders Handbook

KINGSLEY, Hilary (1991, BBC Books, ISBN 0-563-36292-8)

• The EastEnders Programme Guide

MUNRO, Josephine (1994, Virgin Publishing, ISBN 0-86369-825-5)

Concentrates mainly on characters and events in the soap. The section on ’Life in Albert Square’ discusses some of the issues raised by some episodes.

• EastEnders: The First 10 Years: A Celebration

BRAKE, Colin (1994, BBC Books, ISBN 0-563-37057-2 (hardback); 1995, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-025339-4 (updated paperback))

Official guide to the soap’s first decade.

• EastEnders: Real Soap

SINOTOK, Karen (1999, Generation Publications, ISBN 1-903009-04-9)

• Who’s Who in EastEnders

LOCK, Kate (2000, BBC Books, ISBN 0-563-55178-X)

A guide to characters of the show, past and present.

• EastEnders: 20 years in Albert Square

SMITH, Rupert (2005, BBC Books, ISBN 0-563-52165-1)

Official guide to celebrate the soap’s second decade.

Julia on the EastEnders set. ... Tony Holland (born in London, England) is a television writer. ... The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and... Marxism Today was the theoretical journal of the Communist Party of Great Britain prior to its dissolution in 1991. ... The Beale/Fowler family tree. ... // Virgin Refreshed Corporate logo of the Virgin Group introduced 2006 Usage of these images is restricted. ... Albert Square is the fictional location of the British soap opera Eastenders. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC, sometimes also known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, founded in 1922. ... Penguin Books is a British publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. ...

Cast biographies and autobiographies

• My East End

DOBSON, Anita (1987)

• The Leslie Grantham Story: the Secret Life of "Dirty Den"

RITCHIE, Jean (1989)

• Wendy Richard: My Life Story

RICHARD, Wendy (2000)

• All of Me: My Extraordinary Life

WINDSOR, Barbara (2000)

• Mike Reid - T'rific - The Autobiography

REID, Mike (2000)

• Who Does She Think She Is?: My Autobiography

McCUTCHEON, Martine, with WRIGHT, Matthew (2001)

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Novels

EastEnders - Book One: Home Fires Burning.

• The EastEnders

MILLER, Hugh (1985, INNER CIRCLE BOOKS, ISBN 0-586-06809-0)

• EastEnders - Book One: Home Fires Burning

MILLER, Hugh (1986, INNER CIRCLE BOOKS, ISBN 1-85018-045-8)

Volume one of the series of stories of various EastEnders characters. A fictional account of World War II in the life of EastEnders character Lou Beale. Set in Albert Square it is a story of good times and bad.

• EastEnders - Book Two: Swings and Roundabouts

MILLER, Hugh (1986, INNER CIRCLE BOOKS, ISBN 1-85018-050-4)

Volume two of the series of stories of various EastEnders characters. This book continues the human story of the families who live around Albert Square. It is a story not only of mistakes and setbacks, but also of people learning the hard lessons of life and - sometimes - coming out on top. The book focuses mainly on the Beale family, in particular Lou, Pete and Pauline, as well as a sub-plot involving Dr. Harold Legg and his father Gregory. The book takes place between Albert Beale's death in 1957, and the birth of Mark Fowler in 1968.

• EastEnders - Book Three: Good Intentions

MILLER, Hugh (1986, INNER CIRCLE BOOKS, ISBN 1-85018-049-0)

Volume three of the series of stories of various EastEnders characters. The story of Debbie Wilkins and Andy O'Brien coming together and proving yet again the truth of the old adage that the course of true love never does run smooth.

• EastEnders - Book Four: The Flower of Albert Square

MILLER, Hugh (1986, INNER CIRCLE BOOKS, ISBN 1-85018-052-0)

Volume four of the series of stories of various EastEnders characters. This one tells the moving story of Ethel Skinner - always managing to come up smiling against the knocks dealt to her by life.

• EastEnders - Book Five: Blind Spots

MILLER, Hugh (1986, INNER CIRCLE BOOKS, ISBN 1-85018-059-8)

Volume five of the series of stories of various EastEnders characters. Married life was one long round of rows and recriminations for Den and Angie Watts. But when Angie walked out, they both realised that they needed each other more than they knew. Somehow they would have to compromise.

• EastEnders - Book Six: Hopes and Horizons

MILLER, Hugh (1986, INNER CIRCLE BOOKS, ISBN 1-85018-061-X)

Volume six of the series of stories of various EastEnders characters. In a gloomy year in the Square Lofty Holloway seems to be the only one with any hope. He hoped that Persuasive Light - a technique he found in a second hand paperback - would somehow turn him into dynamic success!

• EastEnders - Book Seven: The Baffled Heart

MILLER, Hugh (1987, INNER CIRCLE BOOKS, ISBN 1-85018-068-7)

Volume seven of the series of stories of various EastEnders characters, focusing on Dot Cotton.

• EastEnders - Book Eight: Growing Wild

MILLER, Hugh (1987, INNER CIRCLE BOOKS, ISBN 1-85018-069-5)

Volume eight of the series of stories of various EastEnders characters, focusing on Mary Smith.

• EastEnders - Book Nine: A Place in Life

MILLER, Hugh (1987, INNER CIRCLE BOOKS, ISBN 1-85018-076-8)

Volume nine of the series of stories of various EastEnders characters, focusing on Lofty Holloway.

• EastEnders - Book Ten: A Single Man

MILLER, Hugh (1987, INNER CIRCLE BOOKS, ISBN 1-85018-077-6)

Volume ten of the series of stories of various EastEnders characters, focusing on Colin Russell.

• EastEnders - Book Eleven: Taking Chances

MILLER, Hugh (1987, INNER CIRCLE BOOKS, ISBN 0-586-07228-4)

Volume eleven of the series of stories of various EastEnders characters, focusing on James Wilmott-Brown

• EastEnders - Book Twelve: Elbow Room

MILLER, Hugh (1988, INNER CIRCLE BOOKS, ISBN 1-85018-081-4)

Volume twelve of the series of stories of various EastEnders characters, focusing on Simon Wicks.

• Teen EastEnders - Solid Ground

MILLER, Hugh (1986, ANDRE DEUTSCH LTD., ISBN 0-233-98123-3)

Volume one of the Teen EastEnders series of stories of various EastEnders characters, focusing on Sharon Watts.

• Teen EastEnders - Growing Pains

MILLER, Hugh (1986, ANDRE DEUTSCH LTD., ISBN 0-233-98124-1)

Volume two of the Teen EastEnders series of stories of various EastEnders characters,focusing on Cassie Carpenter.

• Teen EastEnders - Heroes

MILLER, Hugh (1988, LIONS, ISBN 0-00-693235-5)

Volume three of the Teen EastEnders series of stories of various EastEnders characters, focusing on Simon Wicks.

• Teen EastEnders - An Eye for Business

MILLER, Hugh (1988, LIONS, ISBN 0-00-693236-3)

Volume four of the Teen EastEnders series of stories of various EastEnders characters, focusing on Barry Clark.

• EastEnders - Blood Ties: The Life and Loves of Grant Mitchell

LOCK, Kate (1998, BBC BOOKS, ISBN 0-563-38483-2)

Kate Lock's first EastEnders novelisation, exploring Grant Mitchell's past, from his Falklands war experiences, to his marriage to Sharon Watts, right up to his rocky marriage to Tiffany Raymond in 1998.

• EastEnders - Tiffany's Secret Diary

LOCK, Kate (1998, BBC BOOKS, ISBN 0-563-55104-6)

The secret diary of Tiffany Mitchell, which begins when she discovers that she is pregnant, and covers all events of her life leading up to the dramatic events of Christmas 1998.

• EastEnders - Bianca's Secret Diary

LOCK, Kate (1999, BBC BOOKS, ISBN 0-563-55162-3)

The secret diary of Bianca Butcher, giving an insight into her eventful life, including the love triangle involving her, her mother Carol and Dan Sullivan.

• EastEnders - Steve Owen: Still Waters

LOCK, Kate (2001, BBC BOOKS, ISBN 0-563-53722-1)

A novelisation, exploring Steve Owen. It gives an insight into his past, his loves, and his businesses, and also tell the reader exactly what happened during his honeymoon with Mel.

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Maps

• Albert Square

MILLER, Hugh and HARRIS, Keith (1987, David & Charles, ISBN 0-7153-9135-6)

A map of Albert Square, illustrated by Keith Harris