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Ann Bridge
Full Series List in Order
Julia Probyn Novels
1 - The Lighthearted Quest (1956)2 - The Portuguese Escape (1958)
3 - The Numbered Account (1960)
4 - The Dangerous Islands (1963)
5 - Emergency in the Pyrenees (1965)
6 - The Episode at Toledo (Jan-1966)
7 - The Malady in Madeira (Jan-1969)
8 - Julia in Ireland (1973)
Book List in Order: 20 titles
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Peking Picnic
- 1932
- / Gothic
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Laura Leroy inhabits the two realms of her Oxford past and Peking present. Into her current world of exotic beauty and brutality comes Vinstead, a professor from Cambridge and a reminder of all she has left behind. A picnic party leaves for the hills...
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The Ginger Griffin
- 1934
- / Gothic
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"Most girls who come to Peking leave it engaged, generally to the wrong man; and nearly all women leave Peking with a broken heart," said Mrs. Leicester. Amber Harrison was a bit different--she arrived in Peking with a broken heart. But China pr...
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Illyrian Spring
- 1935
- / Gothic
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"She lay in bed, listening to the nightingales and the river under her window, and asking herself with a sort of exasperated astonishment whether she could really be falling in love with Nicholas." Even though she is a renowned painter Lady Kilmic...
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Enchanter's Nightshade
- 1937
- / Gothic
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In Enchanter's Nightshade, first published in 1937, Bridge presents her reader with a "period piece" of Italian provincial society and distributes our sympathies over a surprising range of characters, several of whom touch on individual t...
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Four-Part Setting
- 1939
- / Gothic
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Fleeing from her failed marriage, Rose Pelham seeks sanctuary in Peking, China, with her cousins, Anastasia and Antony Lydiard. The romantic attentions of Captain Hargreaves are a welcome distraction from her woes, but in the society of Anglicised 19...
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Frontier Passage
- 1942
- / Gothic
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A story of Spain and its Civil War, and a pair of star-crossed lovers.
This new novel has many virtues, all of them attractive -- picturesque montage, an appealing cast, substantial-and often exciting -- action, and her usual quality writi... -
Singing Waters
- 1946
- / Gothic
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Ann Bridge takes the little-known country of Albania for her background recreating the primitive grandeur of the country. The Albanian way of life demonstrates a noble standard of values that is rapidly disappearing under the pressure of modern mater...
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The Dark Moment
- 1951
- / Gothic
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Feride and Nilüfer lead a elegant and comfortable life in Turkish aristocratic society until their lives are turned upside down by Atatürk's fight for independence after WWI. Finding strength and courage they didn't know they had, the wome...
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A Place to Stand
- 1953
- / Gothic
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First published in 1953, A Place To Stand is set in Budapest in the spring of 1941, Hope - a spoilt but attractive society girl and daughter of a leading American business man - finds herself playing the lead in a dangerous and most unexpected affair...
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The Lighthearted Quest
- 1956
- / Gothic
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When Julia Probyn's cousin and childhood friend Colin cuts off all contact with his family, it is down to Julia to find him. Setting sail for Morocco â€" the last place he was seen â€" and using her occupation as a journalist as a cover, Julia is...
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The Portuguese Escape
- 1958
- / Gothic
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When Julia Probyn came to sun-lit Portugal to cover a royal wedding for her paper, the last thing she expected was to find herself involved in the escape of an important Hungarian priest, ruthless Communists who pursued him, and the affairs of a youn...
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The Numbered Account
- 1960
- / Gothic
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Julia Probyn, like most people, knew very little about anonymous numbered accounts in Swiss Banks. Until her cousin, Colin Munro, asked her to look into the matter of one containing a fortune, for his fiancée Aglaia Armitage, left to her by her Gree...
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The Tightening String
- 1962
- / Gothic
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This novel records the lives of a group of English diplomats in Budapest from the Spring of 1940, up to the entry of the Germans which compels them to leave in Easter 1941. Crossing the Russian frontier en route for Moscow and the U.S.A., an episode ...
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The Dangerous Islands
- 1963
- / Gothic
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Julia Probyn-an old friend of many readers-is sailing off the west coast of Scotland. On the desolate island of Erinish Beg, she and her cousin are startled to see a sky-blue pole rise up out of the ground at their feet. Military Intelligence sends C...
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Emergency in the Pyrenees
- 1965
- / Gothic
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After the perilous circumstances in which the newly married Julia and Philip met, it is no wonder that the Colonel wants his pregnant wife safe and away from too much excitement. Unfortunately, the remote French mountain village he chooses is not onl...
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The Episode at Toledo
- Jan-1966
- / Gothic
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This Ann Bridge novel of international intriuge and romance will delight the author's old fans and enchant new ones. Beautiful Hetta Paloczy, heroine of The Portuguese Escape, now is married to Richard Atherley, Counsellor at the British Embassy in M...
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The Malady in Madeira
- Jan-1969
- / Gothic
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The last thing recently widowed Julia Probyn expects to find on the lush and charming island of Madeira is a clue to her husband's mysterious death, for Colonel Jamieson perished somewhere in the wilds of Central Asia while on a top-secret missio...
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Julia in Ireland
- 1973
- / Gothic
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While on an assignment with British Intelligence in Morocco, the widowed Julia Probyn Jamieson, journalist, amateur sleuth and occasional spy, loses her heart to Gerald O'Brien, a kind and unassuming lawyer. Together with her five-year-old son, J...
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Moments of Knowing
- Jul-2013
- / General Fiction
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Ann Bridge, besides being a famous author, was also, in her own words, “a person who frequently has, when awake, inexplicable ‘knowings’ of events taking place at a distance: and, in dreams, am informed, sometimes uncomfortably, of facts of whi...