Malcolm MacDonald

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1973
  • Latest Book:
    January 2016
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Full Series List in Order

A Felix Breit Novel

Strange Music (May-2012)
Promises to Keep (Dec-2012)

Stevenson Family Saga

1 - The World from Rough Stones (1974)
2 - The Rich Are With You Always (Jun-2010)
4 - Abigail (Mar-2011)

Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • Goldenrod

    A champion bronco rider faces incredible adversity, suffers pain and humiliation, loses his wife to another man, loses heart - and then somehow finds the spirit to go on. Goldenrod is also about love in its widest, deepest meaning, and, like love, it...

  • The World from Rough Stones

    Stevenson Family Saga - 1

    John Stevenson is just a navy foreman working on the Summit Tunnel of the Manchester & Leeds Railway when a near-fatal accident brings young Nora Telling into his life. Her nimbleness of mind and his power of command enable them to take over the work...

  • Sons of Fortune

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    After a dizzying rise filled with ambition and passion, the Stevensons are now one of the richest families in the world. John, recalling his lowly past, wants his children to obey to the letter and never put a foot wrong. But his four eldest children...

  • Goldeneye

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    FROM THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND where beautiful and passionate young Catherine Hamilton fled her father's wrath and her own uncontrollable desires TO THE GREAT CANADIAN PLAINS where Catherine came during a raging epidemic of Spanish flu and t...

  • Tessa D'Arblay

    London, 1888. Tessa d'Arblay is the 22-year-old daughter of an eccentric widower-clergyman living in the East End. The household is managed by her even more eccentric aunt, a situation that leads Tessa to seek the help of one Dr. Segal, a noted Victo...

  • For They Shall Inherit

    In nineteenth-century England, Clive Mortimer, son of a wealthy industrialist, and Freddy Oxley, the brilliant son of a laborer employed by Clive's father, are inseparable friends until they both fall in love with the same woman...

  • The Silver Highways

    When Mary Flinders sets off on a journey that will take her from the quiet Irish countryside to the bustle of London, she has little idea of the new life about to begin. Protected on the way by the good natured navvy Steam Punch, on arriving in Londo...

  • Honour and Obey

  • A Notorious Woman

    Johanna Rosewarne flees her aunt, her uncle, and her poverty when she meets a young doctor intended for her cousin, but she becomes confused by her feelings after she meets the independent Hal Penrose...



  • His Father's Son

    On a winter's morning in 1915, a baby boy is quietly brought down to a Cotswold gamekeeper's cottage. Fitzie is the love child of Miriam Lessore, the wayward daughter of the manor house. The father is rumoured to be the Prince of Wales - although one...

  • An Innocent Woman

    This historical adventure begins in a Cornish village as the rich, beautiful, and talented Jane Harvey arrives amid rumours and scandal, and continues in Paris at the height of the Belle Epoque where Jane discovers her true nature...

  • A Woman Alone

    Annette Morvah--the daughter of the county squire--and Roseanne Kitto--a poor, but ambitious, stonemason's child--use their beauty, intelligence, and fierce determination to surmount the nineteenth-century barriers of gender and class and find happin...

  • 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 ...

  • A Woman Scorned

    A grand saga in the style of the author's Hell Hath No Fury is set in Victorian Ireland, where young Judith Carty returns to Castle Moore to marry its heir and discovers a plot to ruin the match....

  • A Woman Possessed

    In Victorian Cornwall, Laura goes along with her parent's insistence that she forsake the unacceptable Maurice and marry dependable Miles, a decision that forces some difficult choices between love and duty when Maurice returns fourteen years later....

  • To the End of Her Days

    Jessica, a beautiful and proper widow, discovers that her feelings for her old friend David--who stood by her during her husband's long illness--are changing and must confront her attachment to the honorably married David....

  • Dancing on Snowflakes

    Chaperoned at every turn in her Dublin home, Kate O'Barry's horizons have been limited. When her exasperated parents pack her off to her uncle's house in Stockholm hoping that her infatuation with an unsuitable young man will pass, they have no idea ...

  • For I Have Sinned

    One brief, careless moment is still long enough for all the world to change. It is 1913 and the McKennas are emigrating from Cork to South Africa. Through a tragic misunderstanding, they leave 7-year-old Salome behind on the quay ... and so begins a...

  • The Trevarton Inheritance

    After Chrissy Moore, her older sister, and her three younger brothers are orphaned, Chrissy works to find a way to keep the family fed and together, but some secret force is working to split the family apart....



  • Tomorrow's Tide

    At the height of the Great War, young Jennifer Owen finds herself helping out in a convalescent home, beginning an acting career, and falling in love, but with the end of the war, she faces a choice between marriage or pursuing her career....

  • The Carringtons of Helston

    A romantic saga set in 1914 follows American John Carrington and his two children as they leave the United States and return to their ancestral home in Cornwall, only to be threatened by a grudge from long ago...

  • Like a Diamond

    It is 1910 and young Peter de Vivian, arriving at his new family home in Falmouth, is instantly smitten by Gemma Penhallow, a senior housemaid. But Gemma has more reasons than most to keep her distance. In a long campaign to win her heart, Peter unde...

  • Tamsin Harte

    Tamsin Harte and her mother are forced to open a boarding school when her father dies, but she aspires to marry Master Victor Thorne someday, a plan that could be jeapordized by the intervention of a true love closer to home. Original....

  • Rose of Nancemillin

  • The Rich Are With You Always

    Stevenson Family Saga - 2

    At a time when fabulous fortunes could be made through the will of a strong man or the wiles of a beautiful woman, John Stevenson's genius as a builder and his wife Nora's clear-eyed, brilliant cunning promise to make them one of England's richest fa...

  • Abigail

    Stevenson Family Saga - 4

    Daughter of the wealthy and storied Stevenson family, Abigail Stevenson should have been a creature of unawakened innocence. But one fateful day she tricks her maid, Annie, into telling her the facts of life, and soon Abigail comes to realize that th...

  • The Dower House

    From war-torn Europe they came to Britain, yearning to start a new life. Together, they found it. Spring, 1947. A concentration camp survivor, noted sculptor Felix Breit, arrives in London, hoping to rebuild his life and career. His opportunity co...

  • Strange Music

    A Felix Breit Novel

    They came to England to start a new life -- but the horrors of the past are never far behind . . . - In spring 1949, Felix Breit and his new wife Angela, both concentration camp survivors, join eight other families in a post-war experiment in comm...

  • Promises to Keep

    A Felix Breit Novel

    They came to England to start a new life--but to embrace the future they must confront the past November, 1956. Despite concerns on the national and international stage, life for the ambitious nine young families who live in the Dower House, incl...



  • Writing from the Outskirts of Hope

    Isolated and depressed following the death of his wife, Robbie McDermott is living an aimless existence in rural Michigan - until the chance discovery of a British Library audio collection inspires him to write a novel as a means of bringing a sense ...

  • The Captain's Wives

    Frank Morgan, captain of the bargue Pegasus, always claimed he had two wives. The deeply respectable Hilda back in north London - and the sea. But in the spring of 1885, outward bound for Boston with a cargo of cheap furniture and poverty-stricken Ir...

  • In Love and War

    Clive Mortimer - an aspiring politician and son of a wealthy Midlands industrialist, and Freddy Oxley - a mere apprentice - seem the unlikeliest of friends. But something in their past exerts a mysterious power over them. And it is not just Anne Howa...

  • The Sky With Diamonds

    It is the 1920s, an age of innovation and daring in transportation both on the road and in the air. At the forefront of motor-car development is Somerville's - to own a Somerville-bodied Rolls-royce is every man's dream. But when George Somerville ha...

  • All Desires Known

    Be careful what you wish for -- someone may give it to you.Lucy and Michael Raven are in deep trouble. The cost of being the most talked-about couple in Dublin in 1904 is high. But their troubles really begin when a wily old moneylender suggests a mo...

  • Crissy's Family

    The Powers That Be can beat anything except one determined woman. When both parents die in the same week in 1890, their family of five is split up and sent to various institutions. But Crissy, the second eldest, is determined to get them all back und...

  • Kernow & Daughter

    A disobedient daughter is sharper than a serpent’s tooth -- and often more successful. Jessica Kernow, a daughter among three brothers, has always had to fight her corner â€" and never more so than when, in 1900, she wants to go into the family bus...

  • On a Far Wild Shore

    Inheriting a great estate? How wonderful! And the people who go with it? In 1889, young, beautiful, and newly widowed, Elizabeth Troy travels to her late husband's Cornish estate, hoping to find comfort among its fertile hills and valleys. But she is...

  • Rose of Nancemellin

    If she LOOKS upper class and TALKS upper class … it’s SHOWTIME! Rose’s gift of mimicry was both her undoing and her liberation. One day she pretends to be the daughter of the house and is sacked. She joins a down-at-heel strolling theatre but i...

  • The Dukes

    ""The Dukes" is a magnificent novel about a family, with all the emotions, problems and drama of any large family - except that in this case the head of it, Augustus Clarence Fitzstephen Wrottesley Veitch du Bois, the Fourth Duke of St. Ormer, is a"...



  • Oliver Twist

    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,...

  • 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 oth...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Malcolm MacDonald has published 41 books.

Malcolm MacDonald does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Life and Life of Felix Breit, was published in January 2016.

The first book by Malcolm MacDonald, Goldenrod, was published in July 1973.

Yes. Malcolm MacDonald has 2 series.
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