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  • Rose of Nancemellin

    Published by St Martin's Press in New York and Piatkus in London, in 2001, Rose of Nancemellin attracted the following notices: * Prolific Macdonald's evocative yet over-long historical novel of theater life, set in London and America in the 1910s, is part Cinderella part Pygmalion. Spirited and intelligent Rose Tremayne is a Cornwall [sic] housemaid whose self-education and uncanny talent for ... Read more

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  • All Desires Known

    When this book was first published by St Martin's Press in New Your and Headline in London, in 1993, it attracted the following notices:* If lavish romantic page-turners set your heart pounding, [this book] could be just the thing to fire up a chilly winter's evening — Irish Voice* A most entertaining romantic read [with] the added interest of its Irish setting. [Macdonald] is an acknowledged ... Read more

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  • The World from Rough Stones

    Series Book 1 - Stevenson Family Saga
    The unforgettable first novel in the classic Stevenson Family Saga from epic master Malcolm MacdonaldJohn Stevenson is a just a foreman when a near-fatal accident bring young Nora Telling into his life. Her nimbleness of mind and his power of command enable them to take over the working mill and rescue it from catastrophe. Together with their friends the Thorntons-who are troubled by a marriage ... Read more

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  • For I Have Sinned

    Published by Headline in London and St Martin's Press in New York in 1994, For I Have Sinned attracted the following notices:* A real tear-jerker — Oxford Mail* Fans of this type of yarn will enjoy it, although I can't say sagas are my favourite kind of fiction — Manchester Evening News* Macdonald's plot twists are deftly placed, and his female characters are especially well drawn, but much of ... Read more

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  • Resident Visitor

    The writer's life, from birth in the old workhouse in Chipping Sodbury, through wartime years as his family followed his RAF father to Shropshire, Ayrshire, South Africa, and back home to the war's end in Gloucestershire. How we were torpedoed in mid-Atlantic, fought pirates in Algoa Bay, shot the last Basin-arsed Bird in the Veld, and wept as Table Mountain slipped below the horizon. Back to ... Read more

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  • Tomorrow's Tide

    An abandoned baby leads a teenage girl to a brilliant career. In 1910 young teenager Jennifer Owen discovers an abandoned baby in a field, wrapped up with a penny for luck. Years later, with the help of society hostess Millicent Colston-Smart, she decides to track the child down. The trail (and that exact penny) leads to some startling discoveries for all concerned.When this book was first ... Read more

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  • Oliver Twist - After the Edit

    Malcolm Macdonald writes: On rereading Dickens's "Oliver Twist" recently I found myself wondering – not for the first time – what magical storytelling powers impelled me to persist with a plot that has more holes than a net curtain. To be precise, there are 26 Incredible Coincidences, 21 Unanswered Questions, and 5 Plain Impossibilities; so there is hardly a page on which you do not stumble over ... Read more

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  • The Life and Life of Felix Breit

    Felix Breit was a noted sculptor in the 1930s but, as a "quarter-Jew" in the Nazi stereotype, he was arrested in Paris in 1942. The Gestapo always intended to release him - after the scandal had filled the papers and distracted the public from other mass arrests. But Felix went on the run until re-arrested and sent to Mauthausen death camp. There he was put on a dietary experiment that enabled him ... Read more

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  • Hell Hath No Fury

    Published by St Martin's Press in New York and Headline in London in 1990, Hell Hath No Fury attracted the following notices:* This novel features another of Macdonald's vigorous, sensible, and ambitious heroines of the middle class. ... Beautifully written, this is Macdonald's best effort yet — Cynthia Ogorek, US Booklist* Macdonald's characters fail to become credible, their actions are ... Read more

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  • A Notorious Woman

    Published by St Martin's Press in New York and Piatkus in London, in 1988, A Notorious Woman attracted the following notices:* A compelling tale, offering an interesting insight into Cornish life a century ago — Cornish Packet* These adventures of the beguiling Ms Rosewarne will keep a fair few enthralled during ... this summer — Manchester Evening News* Ably blends cogent social commentary with ... Read more

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  • A Woman Alone

    When published by St Martin's Press in New York and Piatkus in London, in 1990. The book attracted the following notices:• By far the best of his West Country sagas ... a highly unusual profile of a woman of those times — Eastern Evening News• Macdonald succeeds wonderfully in capturing the feeling of Cornish village life, including its broad, rich humour. The legion of Winston Graham's Poldark ... Read more

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  • To the End of Her Days

    When published by St Martin's Press and Piatkus in 1994, the novel attracted the following reviews: The setting for Macdonald's new historical romance is the Cornish town of Penzance during WWI, but it might as well be Peyton Place for all the secrets and sexual high-jinks it hosts. The pages don't exactly fly by but they do offer the well-wrought historical details, plot twists, and vivid ... Read more

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