Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (422p) ISBN 978-0-312-08341-0
Despite the misleading title, there's not a scorned woman to be found among the feisty, independent Irish females created by the prolific Macdonald ( The World from Rough Stones ). Certainly Judith Carty, middle-class friend to the aristocratic...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-20628-4
Set in a Cornish fishing village at the turn of the last century, Macdonald's latest historical romance (after Like a Diamond) evokes the moment when England's rigid class structure first began to loosen and the upper class began to reconsider its...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-18552-7
In this leisurely paced, congenial novel set on the eve of WWI, two young Americans leave their Connecticut home and move with their widowed father to their grandfather's Cornwall village, where their father, John Carrington, intends to buy a farm...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14748-8
Prolific and reliable, Macdonald (Kernow & Son) again offers sound commercial fiction that combines history and romance. Only 16 years old but precociously mature, Crissy Moore is the author's strongest female protagonist yet. Crissy is determined...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13995-7
Set in Cornwall at the turn of the century, MacDonald's (To the End of Her Days) absorbing historical novel is another in this dependable writer's skillfully fashioned narratives. The sign above Barney Kernow's business reads ``Kernow & Son,'' but...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13078-7
The 23rd novel from this prolific author (To the End of Her Days, etc.), a tale of the heart set primarily in Ireland during WWI, alternates emotionally moving passages with tedious ones. Finbar and Deborah McKenna are on board the ship carrying...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-11256-1
When Katya Oberg of Dublin falls for a scoundrel, her parents decide to pack her off to her aunt and uncle in Stockholm. But Katya never appears at her relatives' house. Instead, she sets out on her own in the Swedish city and finds lodging with...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-11080-2
The setting for Macdonald's new historical romance (after A Woman Possessed) is the Cornish town of Penzance during WW I, but it might as well be Peyton Place for all the secrets and sexual high jinks it hosts. Jessica Lanyon nurses her ailing war-he
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (375p) ISBN 978-0-312-09416-4
Although this talky saga often drags, Macdonald ( A Woman Scorned) nonetheless depicts turn-of-the-century Cornwall convincingly and peoples it with a mix of new characters and those from earlier books. The settled and beloved routine of Giles and...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-15676-3
Bringing his characteristic ingenuousness to another well-executed historical romance, Macdonald (Kernow & Daughter) portrays a young girl's psychosexual wellsprings against a backdrop of social and technological upheaval. In provincial Cornwall,...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (377p) ISBN 978-0-312-06000-8
As the result of a joke, headstrong Roseanne Kitto attends the local Ram-Buck fair with Stephen Morvah, the squire's son, in this romance set in 19th-century Cornwall. While Stephen and Roseanne find themselves happily surprised by their easy...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (378p) ISBN 978-0-312-05448-9
A young British heiress comes of age in this carefully wrought novel of character, set in the late 1850s. Shortly after the death of her mother, Jane Hervey and her well-to-do father move from York to the village of Breage in Cornwall, where her...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (635p) ISBN 978-0-312-02623-3
In this novel set in mid-19th century England, Macdonald ( The World from Rough Stones ) ably blends cogent social commentary with romance. He depicts the era when females were expected to be benign and ``biddable''; those attaining gainful, non-dome
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (374p) ISBN 978-0-312-06994-0
Macdonald ( Honour and Obey ; An Innocent Woman ) offers little that's fresh in this flat tale of a poor but fiery young woman making her way by wits alone in late-19th-century Ireland. Daisy O'Lindon, snubbed by haughty Lady Lyndon-Fury in her...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (495p) ISBN 978-0-312-00680-8
This exuberant saga set in 18th century England begins when 20-year-old Mary Flinders, an innocent, plucky, clever lass born into impoverished Irish gentry, receives five guineas from a supposed suitor to finance her trip to London. With her friend...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (463p) ISBN 978-0-312-01773-6
A strong-willed, very organized woman finds her own identity as she emerges from the debacle of a conventional marriage in Macdonald's ( The Silver Highways ) ninth novel. In London during the first decades of the 20th century, the tidy, comfortable
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author, Karen Jensen Gibson, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (363p) ISBN 978-0-312-03842-7
Fitzie, so called because his adoptive mother believes he may be the illegitimate son of the Prince of Wales, is the fulcrum of this often engrossing historical novel set in a Cotswold village on the brink of change. The product of a passionate...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author, Malcolm Ross-Macdonald, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (346p) ISBN 978-0-312-10415-3
In order to maintain their position in the Dublin social scene, Honorable Lucinda and Dr. Michael Raven have spent far more than a young doctor could make--at least in Victorian Ireland. In this enjoyable period romance, one of Lucinda's old beaus...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author, MacDonald, Author, Malcolm Ross-Macdonald, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-20557-7
In veteran writer Macdonald's latest, beautiful and saucy parlor maid Gemma Penhallow attracts the eye of the handsome young master of the house, Peter de Vivian. In fact, their mutual attraction is so strong that Peter actually shakes Gemma's hand...
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Malcolm MacDonald, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-27301-9
Prolific Macdonald's evocative yet overlong 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 housemaid whose self-education and uncanny
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Malcolm Macdonald. Severn House, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8129-8
The uneventful second installment in the Dower House Trilogy (after The Dower House) follows the lives of a community of Holocaust survivors after they've settled into a "capitalist kibbutz" on the series' titular historic English estate. The...
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