Joyce Dingwell

• 1931
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• Jan-1956
• / Romance
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For five years Tricia had been very happy in her job as secretary at Second Chance, a home near Sydney for difficult boys. She liked her kindly old employer, Dr Woodville, and even if she did feel sometimes that the boys took advantage of his lenienc...

• 1959
• / Contemporary Romance
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Margaret South was the most efficient, most dedicated nurse at the Lady Belinda Hospital for Specialized Nursing of Premature Babies. Professor Gink was the most dedicated, most celebrated authority on baby-care in Australia. To Jess they seemed an i...

• Jan-1960
• / Contemporary Romance
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She had never expected adventure. Yet to Candace Jamieson, sailing to Australia to nurse at Manathunka Hospital turned out to be much more than an adventure. Manathunka was place where she could put down roots -- a place she could at last call home. ...

• Jan-1961
• / Contemporary Romance
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Reedited as: Wednesday's Children. Her future looked bleak and lonely. Then Cathy was introduced to the world of Little Families. Who better cold understand the needs of small orphans than she, who had also recently been deprived of parent...

• 1961
• / Contemporary Romance
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Cary had been given a difficult task -- to bring life and happiness to a house that for years had been darkened by bitterness and frustration. She planned to do it by establishing a home for crippled children. But she could only do this with the h...

• Jan-1962
• / Contemporary Romance
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To look at, Lennie was the two-feet-firmly-on-the-ground type. But her head was mostly in the clouds; so much so that she didn't always know what was happening to the people around her, or even to herself. She was convinced, for instance, that she ad...

• Jan-1963
• / Contemporary Romance
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Matron, from the clinically efficient heights of Southern Cross Hospital, could only be described as scathing when she explained to Sister Maggie Chappy what was in store for her at the much smaller and more intimate establishment of Helping Hands, i...

• Jan-1963
• / Contemporary Romance
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Dinah had urgent reasons for wanting to go to Australia, and she jumped at the chance of a job in New South Wales, even if it meant supervising three unruly "brats" in the back of beyond. Despite their antagonism, she felt fairly confident of...

• Jan-1964
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-1964
• / Contemporary Romance
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To be the only girl among 400 men is too much of a good thing -- especially when the most important man of all is determined to get rid of you. Hero: Heroine: Prudence "Prue"...

• Sep-1964
• / Contemporary Romance
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Love made even the sighted blind. Market research wasn't a dull job to Bridget -- she found it fascinating. She loved getting out and meeting new people. Unfortunately, Mitchell Grantham, the new market research manager, was one too many. He constant...

• Feb-1965
• / Contemporary Romance
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Her cousins' invitation to Australia offered Meg hard work, little reward...but a smiling corner of the world to live in. She soon found that they had a husband up their sleeves too; but what about the shadow of his former marriage?...

• May-1965
• / Contemporary Romance
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To anyone who didn't know the facts, Mim Tarrant could appear to be practicing a rather nasty form of deceit, and somehow she didn't want Blaze Barlow, the timber man, to think badly of her. But, for her young brother's sake, she couldn&#...

• Nov-1965
• / Contemporary Romance
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For ten of her nineteen years, Alice had been the only girl in a community of men working on Australia's vast Snowy River hydro-electric project -- and she was used to having her own way in everything. Then Bark Walsh, that infuriating Englishman,...

• Mar-1966
• / Contemporary Romance
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Because she so much wanted to stay on in Australia, Susan accepted the job at Greenfingers with very little inquiry. All the same, she thought it odd that lovely young Mrs. Thurles should need a companion; odder if still that a dominant man like Pet...

• Dec-1966
• / Contemporary Romance
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When her boyfriend, Jeff heartlessly let her down, Terese decided to go out to Australia and start afresh. She found a life and a job that were utterly different from anything she had known before -- but she discovered that she had by no means left e...

• Jul-1967
• / Contemporary Romance
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It was a rash impulse that made Abigail accept Titus Brown's offer of a job at his ramshackle family inn--and even to enter into a mock "engagement" with him. But she found herself in one of New Zealand's loveliest spots--and with an attractive ne...

• Nov-1967
• / Contemporary Romance
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The first time she emigrated to Australia, Clancy Clyde had not managed to stay the course -- but she had second thoughts and, like a boomerang, returned to try again. Her second venture was far more successful -- but how could she convince her fau...

• Feb-1968
• / Contemporary Romance
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Geraldine was the Professor's daughter. She looked forward to being the Headmaster's daughter. So when Damien Manning got the appointment that she felt was her father's due, her reception of him was less than friendly. The setting of t...

• Aug-1968
• / Contemporary Romance
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Gina enjoyed every minute of her work with the orphans, and was quite convinced that the only way to deal successfully with children was through love. She thought the Superintendent, Miles Fairland, shared her views -- until Yasmin Winter came on the...

• Nov-1968
• / Contemporary Romance
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Robbie was the only family Hope possessed. Wherever her brother went she followed. Now, arriving in Venice in time to see him leaving on the Paris train with a woman, Hope realized she'd been keeping him from a life of his own. Well, she was in V...

• Jan-1969
• / General Fiction
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Whether one of the many or one of the few, JOIS have somebody Asking for you: went the advertising jingle, JOIS standing for "Jobs Offered In Sydney", and for Bonnie Finch the attraction was that JOIS did not ask for applicants with special qualifica...

• Apr-1969
• / Contemporary Romance
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Laurel realised that her new job--on a remote whaling station in the Pacific Ocean--would not be an easy one, but she badly needed the money. However, she made a bigger success of it than she had ever anticipated -- and surprised no one more than the...

• Jul-1969
• / Contemporary Romance
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Zoe and Diana, doing the Australian's traditional "Grand Tour" of Europe, had both fallen in love with Spain -- but Diana had fallen in love with Miguel as well, and when the time came to move on to London, Zoe had to go alone, leaving Di...

• Oct-1969
• / Contemporary Romance
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Not many girls would wish to steal their best friend's fiance, so when Faith found herself falling in love with Craig she fled to Hong Kong, where she began to forget her troubles in her new job in the home of the Portuguese Marques Jacinto de Ve...

• Jan-1970
• / Contemporary Romance
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Cwyth loved her work as a vet's assistant - an untrained vet's assistant, it was true, but her kindly boss, old Mr. Victoria, was sensible enough to realise that genuine love of animals and a genuine way with them more than made up for lots of certif...

• Jan-1970
• / Contemporary Romance
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Lucia was immensely proud and flattered to be appointed manageress of Sydney's newest, most luxurious hotel -- but she wasn't nearly so happy about the numerous emotional problems that came with the job!...

• Mar-1970
• / Contemporary Romance
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Nurse Fiona Smith was determined to go on looking after her young nephew when he went to Australia to join his father, even though that gentleman had stipulated "no females!" So she pretended to be the new cook instead. Hoping that everything...

• Jun-1970
• / Contemporary Romance
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The twelve young graduate nurses were waiting eagerly to hear what glamorous jobs were to be allotted to them under the Farflung Nursing Association of the Pacific Health Organisation. Would it be specialling a Rajay in Hyderabad, nursing on some dre...

• Sep-1970
• / Contemporary Romance
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Original title: West of the River. West of the River, Burn West's estate out in the Riverina district of New South Wales, was sufficiently far off the map for Frances to realise why Burn needed a nurse-governess for little seven year old Jason Wes...

• Dec-1970
• / Contemporary Romance
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"I have left nothing behind. I and my heart are travelling together," Jane assured her neighbour on the plane that was flying them both to Ceylon. But she was soon to lose her heart -- and not only to that beautiful island, the Pearl of the I...

• May-1971
• / Contemporary Romance
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After a series of unhappy setbacks, Peta found herself trying to cope, singlehandedly, with a stud farm in Tasmania -- the "Apple Isle". Her neighbour, Nat Trentham, could have been such a help -- if only he hadn't been so infuriating!...

• Aug-1971
• / Contemporary Romance
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Fiji-- lush, lovely, flamboyant islands They had beckoned her artist-brother and, seeking a haven from a broken romance, Lin followed. En route, she met Lewin Brent and wonderfully her heart began to heal. But happiness, it seemed, wasn't to be...

• Nov-1971
• / Contemporary Romance
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Libby couldn't decide whether Pierce Hardway was genuinely interested in B.W.C. (Because We Care), or whether he saw in its orphaned or deprived boys a source of cheap labour for his herb farm, Clove Orange. And even when she went to Clove Orange ...

• Feb-1972
• / Contemporary Romance
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The impressive Portuguese Senor Enrico Montales had engaged Clair as nanny to his two young nieces - which would had been all very well, thought Clair, if he had made it rather clearer which of the three of them he regarded as a child!...

• May-1972
• / Contemporary Romance
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"Wanted", the 'Australian Miner' had advertised, "a female who can take it." After adding that what would have to be taken was roughness, toughness, remote locality, no entertainment, it had given a number to ring. Alexandra got the job, and she was ...

• Aug-1972
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Aug-1972
• / Contemporary Romance
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Pippa and her cousin Rena Franklin had never been particularly close, and it was mainly for the sake of her beloved little brother Davy that she had accepted Rena's invitation to visit her in Australia. Rena had never liked her, so Pippa chose to...

• Nov-1972
• / Contemporary Romance
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Rowan was thrilled when an unknown uncle left her a cafe in Queensland. She could just picture it, in its sub-tropical surroundings - dainty curtains, delicious sandwiches and cakes . . . But it wasn't at all like that, as Rowan found to her h...

• Feb-1973
• / Contemporary Romance
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Miranda was in the unhappy position of being married to one man while loving another. But Sim was such a kind and affectionate husband that the marriage might yet have work out had Jeff not come back into their lives again. Hero: Simon "Si...

• May-1973
• / Contemporary Romance
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There were many secrets to unfold Greer and her frail sister, Holly, found their trip to beautiful Bombay in India to be more fascinating than they had thought possible. For Greer, there was the lure of an ancient Hindu shrine with its dark sec...

• Dec-1973
• / Contemporary Romance
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Jane adored her horses -- so much so that when the stud had to be broken up she had been willing to go out with them to Australia and a new life, although she realized it would mean once again running into the man who had jilted her. But Rodden Ga...

• Apr-1974
• / Contemporary Romance
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Bitterly hurt at being deprived of her two beloved little nieces, Catriona Quentin had vowed never again to let her feelings get involved in love for anyone else. But it was difficult not to get emotionally involved with the orphans at Camp Unive...

• Aug-1974
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Mrs. Prince told her about her three sons, Verity was reminded of the fairytale of the three princes -- a gracious prince, a charming prince, and a prince who was in-between. Verity soon realized where her heart lay -- but did her chosen pri...

• Nov-1974
• / Contemporary Romance
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Brit had always spoiled and indulged her young sister Cara, so perhaps she deserved it when Cara rewarded her by leaving her without a penny in the world. Link Wayland came to the rescue with the suggestion that she marry him -- but was that the a...

• Feb-1975
• / Contemporary Romance
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Robin was the only member of her family who had inherited her grandfather's love of the land. When her brother sold out to Tamar Warren, she couldn't bear the thought of leaving the sheep station. But, for reasons of his own, Tamar would o...

• Apr-1975
• / Contemporary Romance
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Cyprus held bitter-sweet memories for Georgia -- memories of a never-to-be-forgotten summer with Justin, whom she had loved but who hadn't wanted her -- and it was difficult to resist the opportunity of visiting it again. It was difficult, too, t...

• Jun-1975
• / Contemporary Romance
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Lucy Brown was delighted when a kindly lady arranged a job for her in a hospital-cum-children's home in Australia, and could hardly wait to get to Sydney and start her fascinating new job. But she arrived to find herself rather less than welco...

• Sep-1975
• / Contemporary Romance
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Roslyn had always adored baby Belinda Forrest, and had always cared for her and about her -- which was more than the child's relatives had ever done! Now, belatedly, they wanted to claim her, but Roslyn had no intention of parting with her. Ho...

• Dec-1975
• / Contemporary Romance
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"See me when you grow up." In the patronizing way adults often use, Clem made this comment to Silver when she was little more than a child. Now she was a woman and had returned to the place where she had spent her childhood. Would Clem...

• Feb-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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When they had first met, Constance knew Anthony Vine had been interested in her. But now that she had come to work with him at Corporation City in the Northern Territory, he was cold and distant. What had gone wrong between them, and was there any...

• Mar-1976
• / Romance
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• Apr-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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Selina was going to marry Roger Peters -- but unless they waited another three years, Selina would forfeit a large legacy and lose her beloved Tall Tops. She was prepared to wait; so was Roger. That maddening Joel Grant had no right to be so sarca...

• Jun-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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Sophie felt strongly that her father should have been appointed headmaster of the Apa School for Girls, and she was furious when Grant Saxby not only got the job instead, but proceeded to turn the school coed. But what did Grant Saxby care about S...

• Aug-1976
• / Contemporary Romance
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Gemma was on her way to the Outback to marry Bruce Mannering. Before she had even arrived there; she met Tim Torrance, who promptly informed her that she was making a great mistake. How dared he interfere? But when Gemma actually met Bruce's f...

• Feb-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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Georgina wanted to work in the Australian outback rather than the city, but the only suitable job called for a man. So she called herself George Brown --and got the job. Then she discovered the difficulties of trying to cope with the disturbing Larry...

• Dec-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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She longed for love But he doubted her Junia didn't answer Karl Kemble. How could she explain her woman's point of view to this man? She was pursuing Colin, she supposed, but six months apart was a long time. Oh, there had been letters...

• May-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Clo was prepared to hate him... Clo knew before she went to Hong Kong airport she would hate Harry Ferrier, the replacement for her beloved father at the college. And she did. She had, however, made a mistake and was embarrassed to find that th...

• Jun-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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It was Honor's own fault that her young half-brother Danny was so weak -- she had always spoiled him and indulged him -- so really she had only herself to blame that now he was trying to blackmail her, to get himself out of serious trouble. Unfortuna...

• Aug-1978
• / Romance
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When her sister and sisters fiancé were killed leaving his 3 children orphans Josephine took on the care of the children. Her own fiancé was not happy and it was only due to the help of the banana plantation boss that all worked out in the end....

• Aug-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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Nothing was the same, not even the man! And Paddy, remembering the happy, friendly time she'd had with him last year, grieved over Jerry's death. Now there was just Magnus --Jerry's hard and unfeeling older brother who refused to be...

• Nov-1978
• / Contemporary Romance
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"One day soon, you're going to be my wife! "Oh, no I'm not," Clemmie muttered under her breath. She felt that Rickaby must be completely mad. She had known him less than a week. He was almost a total stranger. Besides she ...

• Jan-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Could she cope with the changes in her life? Zenith loved the isolated Australian mining community; it was her father's world and, therefore, hers. But now that world seemed to be in jeopardy. Try as she might, Zenith couldn't understan...

• Mar-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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Polly's heart was not really broken. It had been hurt, though, by her broken romance in England. Thorn Clemance's offer of a job as companion to the lovely Serena Clemance took Polly to the lush Australian valley where the Clemance br...

• Mar-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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• May-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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Manny had fallen in love with love And in this mood she'd agreed to marry Justin Welsh. Fortunately she came to her senses before the wedding. The overbearing construction superintendent, Huw Grant, however, unaware of her change of heart, ...

• Oct-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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"An involvement's the last thing I want." Tim Fortescue was a confirmed cynic when it came to women he wasn't going to repeat his ancestor's mistakes. And besides, his outback cattle station was strictly a man's world. B...

• Aug-1983
• / Romance
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• Feb-1984
• / Contemporary Romance
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His eyes were cold -- just like his heart Smitten by wanderlust and a thirst for adventure, Maggie had come to work at Phineas Acres in the heart of Australia's harsh western badlands. She soon came to realize that something very strange was ha...

• Apr-1986
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• Jun-1986
• / Romance
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