Margaret Pemberton

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Margaret Pemberton
  • Bibliography:
    47 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1975
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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About the Author

Margaret A. Hudson was born on 10 April 1943 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK, of German extraction. She was daughter of Kathleen (Ramsden), an artist, and George Arthur Hudson, an architect. Married with Mike Pemberton, they have five grown children, today she lives in London with her husband and four small dogs.

Published since 1975, she is a bestselling romance writer as Margaret Pemberton, and under the pseudonyms Carris Carlisle; Maggie Hudson and Rebecca Dean. Having travelled extensively, her novels are set in different parts of the world. She was the fifteenth elected Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1989-1991), she has also served on the Crime Writers' Association Committee.

Full Series List in Order

Harland

1 - A Dark Enchantment (May-1979)
1 - The Guilty Secret (May-1979)
2 - Party in Peking // From China With Love (Jun-1987)
3 - A Multitude of Sins (Jun-1988)
3 - A Time to Remember (Jun-1988)
4 - The Last Goodbye (Aug-2007)

Voigt Trilogy

1 - The Londoners (Sep-1995)
2 - Magnolia Square (Apr-1996)
3 - Coronation Summer (Aug-1997)

White Christmas in Saigon

1 - Unforgettable Days (Dec-2004)
2 - The Turbulent Years (Aug-2005)
White Christmas in Saigon (Jun-1990)

Yorkshire Trilogy

1 - Yorkshire Rose (Jan-1996)

Book List in Order: 47 titles

  • The Girl Who Knew Too Much

    Original title: Rendezvous with Danger. A chance encounter on a lonely Bavarian hill side has ensured Susan Carter is the holder of a terrible secret. She alone knows the identities of the assassins who have gunned down a German minister. And now ...

  • Rendezvous With Danger

    Original title: The Girl Who Knew Too Much. It began beautifully - a holiday away from the tourist crowds, a revelling in the lovely countryside of Bavaria. But then Susan Carter's dream was rudely shattered by the crash of a speeding car! If ...

  • The Mystery of Saligo Bay // The Last Letter

    Miranda Taylor drowns in Saligo Bay. Was it an accident - or suicide - or murder? Who is the mysterious Pete Mackay and why did Miranda say he would be able to explain everything? Sally Craig, her friend, determines to find out, and her quest...

  • A Dark Enchantment

    Harland - 1

    Original title: The Guilty Secret. A chilling secret exposed in the heat of the Portuguese sun Jenny Harland is a girl with a secret. One that has scarred her life, threatened her future happiness. At a luxurious cluster of villas in Northern Port...

  • The Guilty Secret

    Harland - 1

    Scratch the veneer of opulence at the "Enclave", a cluster of villas bought for the movie star Rosalind by her millionaire husband, a and a reality of fear, frustration, guilt, and love betrayed glimmers darkly from beneath. Rosalind's cousin Jenny i...

  • Tapestry of Fear

    Alison's holiday is rudely shattered by gunfire when Basque separatists try to smuggle arms into the quiet fishing village where she is staying. She reluctantly goes to the aid of Jose and Luis Villada, and takes part mission of mercy which turns int...

  • Vengeance in the Sun // Villa D'Este

    A broken love affair takes Lucy Matthews to the Villa d'Este as governess to the six-year-old Danielle Van de Naude. But instead of a refuge Lucy finds she has entered a world of intrigue and fear. Why did Danielle's previous governess die? Is someon...

  • Lion of Languedoc

    Masquerade - 73
    Mills & Boon Historical - 76

    The witch-hunters were close behind Spurred on by a twisted sense of justice, they wanted nothing more than to see Marietta burn at the stake. Terrified, Marietta ran till she could run no more. She collapsed on the ground and awaited her dread...

  • Some Distant Shore

    FROM A CARGO SHIP TO THE DOOMED TITANTIC - SHE WAS MISTRESS OF A MIRACULOUS DESTINY! Born in the lap of the blue Mediterranean, raven-haired Christina Haworth, daughter of a fiery gypsy dancer and a rugged sea captain, grew up in the exotic ports...



  • The Far Morning

    Original title: Harlot Born to a book-reading, seafaring skipper and a tempestuously beautiful Spanish mother, Christine's young life revolves around her widowed father and his ship, the Lucky Star. The image of her mother, Christina grows from a ...

  • Harlot

    First they called her 'dirty little gipsy', the Captain's daughter, different and wild. Then they called her 'dear' and 'darling', reaching for her with their searching hands and searing lips. But she would not haunt the dockside forever... In the ri...

  • Forever

    In the summer swelter of New Orleans, society girls talk of eligible young men, and of whom they will marry. For Augusta Lafayette, only the scandalous Beauregard Clay will do. He is years older than she - and dangerous by all accounts. But Gussie wa...

  • Undying Love

    Original title: Forever. On Midsummer's Eve Augusta Lafayette writes a man's name on a piece of paper and eats it. This should cause the man to love her forever. The man in question, Beauregarde, has a fatal accident while driving to tell Augusta ...

  • A Many Splendoured Thing

    Original title: Pioner Girl What is holding together this peculiar band of pioneers? Polly Kirkham is an orphan who was brought up by the Mormons. Now, in the bitter winter of 1846, she is part of their small band of pioneers struggling westward t...

  • Pioneer Girl

    Mills & Boon Historical - 102

    To the small band of pioneers struggling westbound to the Rocky Mountains in the bitter winter of 1846, the chance meeting with Major Dart Richards of the U.S. Cavarlry is a fateful encounter. And to the orphaned Polly Kirkham, it is especially dist...

  • The Flower Garden // A Year to Eternity

    Nancy Leigh Cameron had it all - beauty, wealth, glamour. Born and bred in the opulent grace of political society, she'd been painstakingly groomed to be the perfect wife to the cold calculating man who sought the nation's highest office. Then after ...

  • African Enchantment

    Mills & Boon Historical - 113

    'The Nile, the white fountains of the Nile...' Her father's last words haunt Harriet Latimer long after she has been rescued from the Nubian desert which they had been attempting to cross. Her rescuer, the insolent and devastatingly handsome Raou...

  • Flight to Verechenko

    Mills & Boon Historical - 124

    London, 1914. Lady Catherine Davencourt is eagerly awaiting her marriage to Robert, Marquis of Clare, when she is brought terrible news - he has been brutally murdered. She is doubly horrified when her penniless stepmother schemes with her late fi...

  • A Rebellious Heart

    London, 1914. Lady Catherine Davencourt is eagerly awaiting her marriage to Robert, Marquis of Clare, when she is brought terrible news - he has been brutally murdered. She is doubly horrified when her penniless stepmother schemes with her late fi...



  • Devil's Palace

    Mills & Boon Historical - 134

    In 1880 the meeting place of international royalty and the twilight world of the demi-monde is the dazzling casino at Monte Carlo. To the young and beautiful Charlotte Grainger, one figure stands out above Sarah Bernhardt, the Prince of Wales and the...

  • The Reckless Miss Grainger

    Original title: Devil's Palace In 1880 the meeting place of international royalty and the twilight world of the demi-monde is the dazzling casino at Monte Carlo. Charlotte Grainger is dreaming that her youth and beauty will turn the head of one fi...

  • Goddess

    No one knew who she was or where she came from, and no one who saw her ever forgot her. The camera loved her. The public adored her. But only one man -- one passionate, powerful, unattainable man -- could touch the heart of the GODDESS .....

  • Silver Shadows, Golden Dreams

    It's not every child who is named after a motor car, and when little Daisy Ford discovers she's been abandoned by her mother, she resolves to put the name - and her unhappy years at the convent orphanage - behind her for ever. Quite unaware of he...

  • Never Leave Me

    The unforgettable story of a passionate woman, the men who possessed her, and the secret that shadowed her dreams... An exquisite woman-child, Lisette de Valmy had grown up lonely but hauntingly beautiful. Daughter of a great chateau, she had dedicat...

  • Violins of Autumn

    Original title: Never Leave Me A stirring romance set in the dark days of World War Two Passionate Lisette de Valmy dedicates all her loyalty to the French Resistance as the Germans occupy her country ? but finds her feelings torn when her heart i...

  • Party in Peking // From China With Love

    Harland - 2

    Originally published as Carris Carlisle, also published as From China with Love. Olivia Harland is enjoying her stay with her aunt and uncle in the Western Hills fifteen miles from Peking. It is 1900 and the air is heavy with the talk of Boxers, t...

  • A Multitude of Sins

    Harland - 3

    From Europe's legendary playgrounds of the idle rich... to the teeming streets of Hong Kong... to the sudden thunder of war. After her mother's death, Elizabeth Kingsley, 10, was in charge of his father, Jerome Kingsley, the charming, debonair... ...

  • A Time to Remember

    Harland - 3

    From Europe's legendary playgrounds of the idle rich... to the teeming streets of Hong Kong... to the sudden thunder of war. After her mother's death, Elizabeth Kingsley, 10, was in charge of his father, Jerome Kingsley, the charming, debonair... ...

  • White Christmas in Saigon

    White Christmas in Saigon

    They were girls of the 60s as unlike each other as it was possible to be. Abbra the quiet, lovely, Californian college girl reared to a life of good behaviour and doing the right thing. She was swept off her feet into a whirlwind marriage before s...



  • The Embarrassment of Riches

    "Here she is!" Alexander was shouting. "This is your new daughter-in-law! An Irish peasant... An illegitimate... illiterate... Irish peasant!" 1856: Alexander Karolyis, only son of the wealthiest entrepreneur in New York, spends most of his adoles...

  • Moonflower Madness

    A 19th-century historical novel with a Chinese setting and a plant-collecting background. Botanist Zachary Cartwright and his companion Lord Charles Rendlesham are on an expedition through China to locate rare species of flowers, especially the blue ...

  • Shadows Over Silver Sands

    Sally searches for the cause of her best friend’s death, while an unknown terror lies in wait. “If anything happens to me, Pete Mackay will explain. I can’t be any clearer, or you’ll be in the same position I am.”. By the time Sally ...

  • Zadruga

    In Sarajevo in the spring of 1914, 17-year-old Natalie Karageorgevich finds herself caught up in the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. For the next quarter of a century, against the turbulent Balkan background, the story of Natalie's and her sister's...

  • Forget-Me-Not Bride

    An historical romance set in the Alaskan Klondike at the height of the gold-rush. Lilli is destined for the Alaskan Klondike as a mail-order bride. Her aim is to marry a gold-rich husband so that she can look after her younger brother and sister, to...

  • The Londoners

    Voigt Trilogy - 1

    Magnolia Square in South London was a friendly place to live, not least for Kate Voigt and her father Carl. Then came World War II, and suddenly the Voigts became outcasts because of their German blood. With her widowed father interned, Kate struggle...

  • Villa D'este

    After the heartache of a broken engagement Lucy Matthews travels abroad to become a nanny. Her peace is short-lived however, when she learns the truth about the tragic death of her predecessor and finds herself in danger....

  • Yorkshire Rose

    Yorkshire Trilogy - 1

    The first novel in a new Yorkshire trilogy, set in pre-World War One Bradford. When her grandfather dies, Rose is for the first time able to meet with her wealthy relatives....

  • Magnolia Square

    Voigt Trilogy - 2

    1945: The war was over, and the families who lived in Magnolia Square could look forward to their men coming home and their lives returning to normal. But for some, the end of the war brought serious problems. Kate Voigt was at last able to marry Leo...

  • Coronation Summer

    Voigt Trilogy - 3

    It is the spring of 1953, and the neighbours living in Magnolia Square are looking forward to celebrating the Coronation. In the weeks leading up to the celebrations, the residents rally to each others assistance to make sure that when the day dawns,...



  • The Four of Us

    Four women who share a special history. Four friends reunited. In September 1962 four very different girls from different worlds meet on their first day at school. Artemis Lowther is the daughter of a self-made man; Geraldine is from an upper-clas...

  • Unforgettable Days

    White Christmas in Saigon - 1

    Abbra, Serena and Gabrielle: three young women with nothing in common except the Vietnam war. Unforgettable Days is their story a powerfully moving novel of love and friendship, triumphing over the anguish of loss. When their husbands go missing, the...

  • The Turbulent Years

    White Christmas in Saigon - 2

    The sequel to Unforgettable Days In this second volume of the epic saga which began with Unforgettable Days, Abbra, Serena and Gabrielle ? three women with nothing in common except the Vietnam War ? are reunited in Saigon where each embarks on a sear...

  • The Last Goodbye

    Harland - 4

    Elizabeth Kingsley fled to Hong Kong with her older husband when war seemed inevitable. Thrown into the glamorous expert lifestyle, Elizabeth finds herself drawn to Raefe Elliot, a notorious womanizer. As the Japanese prepare to invade Hong Kong and ...

  • A Season of Secrets

    Sweeping from the Great War, through to the 1940s, this unforgettable tale follows the lives of the Fentons, an aristocratic family from Yorkshire. Thea, the eldest daughter of Viscount Gilbert Fenton flouts all the unwritten rules of her class, emba...

  • A Circle of Time

    A war that could turn friends into enemies, lovers into fighters . . . Summer 1935. Best friends Kate Shelton, Ella Tetley and Daphne St. Maur are on the cusp of a new life, having graduated with Classics degrees. Kate is desperate to start work ...

  • The Summer Queen

  • Beneath the Cypress Tree

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Margaret Pemberton has published 47 books.

Margaret Pemberton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Beneath the Cypress Tree, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Margaret Pemberton, Rendezvous With Danger, was published in January 1975.

Yes. Margaret Pemberton has 4 series.
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