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Violet Vivian Finlay was born on January 2, 1914 in Berkshire, England, daughter of Alice Kathleen (Norton) and Sir Campbell Kirkman Finlay. The majority of her childhood was spent in Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar), where her father worked. During her youth, she frequently journeyed between India, Singapore, Java and Sumatra. She married four times, and had five children: Gillian Rushton (née Porch), Kim Santow, Jennifer Gooch (née Stuart), and twins Vary and Valerie Stuart. Her studies included: Medicine in London, Pathologist in Budapest, and Chemistry and Laboratory Technique in Newcastle. During World War II, she joined the Australian Forces and was attached to the IVth Army, later transferred to British XIV Army in Burma.
Published since 1953, she signed her romance novels as: Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, and Robyn Stuart; she signed as V.A. Stuart her military sagas: Alexander Sheridan and Phillip Hazard; and as William Stuart Long she singed her historical fiction series: the Australians. In August 1986, Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann passed away at 72, who continued writing until her death.
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Ann Guthrie considered herself exceptionally lucky to get a job as nurse on board that last word in luxury liners, the R.M.S. Shagreen, bound for the blue skies and the warm seas of the Far East and Australia. She knew her appointment as nurse on the...
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It was hard on Deirdre that she should come to care for a man whom her dearly loved artist brother, Sean, hated so deeply and, as he believed, with such good cause. And Sean, too, had his troubles, loving a girl whose father disapproved of him. Th...
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A girl whose life was drudgery was suddenly whisked away on a Mediterranean cruise, who else should she meet but Prince Charming but can the two worlds mesh. Suburban, hard-working Janie Brown suddenly found herself launched on a Mediterranean cru...
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Charles spoke aloud the vows which would make Linda his wife. But tragedy brooded over the quiet, flower-decked church. A tragedy he could not share with her. As Charles Blakeney spoke the vows that would make Linda his wife, his throat ached with...
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For the first time in the long history of the Chisholms of Logan, headship of the family was to pass out of the direct line, and the proud Logan title belong to a young man who had been born and had lived all his life in Australia. Johnny Chisholm, l...
A story of love and heartbreak set in post-war Burma. It is the story of Vicky Randall and the three men who were to play an important part in her life. Henry O'Malley, a doctor and heroic survivor of imprisonment in Thailand; Alan Rowan, a Chind...
Kathy Gregson found it difficult to accept the rigid rules with her family in India after a year at finishing school in Paris. Then she and her sister Harriet fall in love with the same man. Kathy Gregson was still a tomboy after a year at her fin...
Ann Royston glanced back at the great, grey building that was St. Martha's Hospital. Lights gleamed from it, bright against the gathering dusk of evening, and, in imagination, she saw beyond the walls and the windows, into the wards, the theatres, th...
Two of John Anson's wishes were granted on the same day. He was offered an important post in the State of Gaupal and Sandra Beauchamp promised to marry him. On that day he also met Rose Lian, the beautiful girl, who, he was told, was of mixed Fre...
Somerled Sinclair returned from Kenya to his Scottish castle home to find it shrouded in debts and difficulties. He unknowingly blamed Alison Graham for the many changes that had taken place -- changes he disliked. It was a long time before he di...
THE SEPOY MUTINY Visiting India, Emma Lindsay is caught up in the romantic whirl of her exotic surroundings. When she meets the dashing Capt. Hugh Richmond, he warns her to leave India right away. Torn between her attraction for this handsome office...
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It seemed strange that a brilliant surgeon like Doctor Mary Courage should even consider being an assistant general practitioner in a small Yorkshire town. With her qualifications, she would easily have been welcomed anywhere. Yet the move -- and Doc...
Joe Gorman an intern at a New York hospital is caught up in the human side of his patients problems and is forced to reassess many of his most cherished beliefs - including the subject of love. Joe Gorman, son of a New York policeman and product o...
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Margaret Ferguson seemed too young and pretty to be a real, reliable doctor, thought the people of Wollaton Springs in Queensland. It fell to Phil Barton's young English jackaroo to become her first patient -- but he was by no means the las...
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When the Viking sailed from Southampton, Elizabeth had no way of knowing how eventful the voyage would be.... Elizabeth Ogilvie sailed on the maiden voyage of the S.S Viking with rather mixed feelings. It was not that her job, as assistant purser,...
Hugh Sutherland, on his way to take up a research fellowship in surgery in America, had not even reached his destination, Samaritan's Hospital, when he was a witness to a road accident in which a woman almost lost her life. Arriving at the hospit...
A young doctor on holiday in Budapest finds herself caught in a web of a dangerous intrigue.... Doctor Stacey Heriot travelled to Budapest, the exciting city famed for its gypsy violinists, and romantic atmosphere, for her eagerly awaited holiday....
Samarinda Lazenby had had an eventful and exciting career. The first few years of her life had been spent in a Japanese internment camp, the middle years accompanying her father around the world, and her adult life training as a surgeon. When her fat...
Doctor Sarah Hamilton had come to the little mid-west town of Granville to take over as locum to one of its best-loved doctors. But there were two strangers in Granville, one an ex-patient of Sarah's, the other a deranged and dangerous man. Were ...
A young woman doctor is torn between her professional loyalties and the man she loves. Doctor Sarah Hamilton came to the little mid-west town of Granville in an effort to make herself more acceptable to the American people. She hoped that by takin...
Because of his past Joe Mason neither liked nor trusted women, until Kate Cluny came into his life. Young Doctor Mason was dedicated, sympathetic and a very good doctor. When Kate Cluny came to assist him in his practice she knew she was going to...
'When Stacey left Yorkshire for the bright lights of London, she entered an entirely new life....' 'To Stacey Duncan, who had given up her promising medical career to nurse her mother through a long illness, the chance to return to her...
Danger lurker somewhere in the corners of the manor house - and Elizabeth wasn't at all sure whom she could trust.... When Elizabeth Manners agreed to help take care of little Joey Randolph, she did so because she was sorry for the lonely, d...