Mary Stewart

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1955
  • Latest Book:
    June 1997
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About the Author

Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow was born on 12 September 1916 in Sunderland, England, the United Kingdom. She graduated from Durham University, from where she received an honorary D.Litt in 2009. She was a lecturer in English Language and Literature there until her marriage in 1945 to Sir Frederick Stewart, former chairman of the Geology Department of Edinburgh University, who died in 2001.

Lady Mary Stewart was author of twenty novels, a volume of poetry, and three books for young readers, she is admired for both her contemporary stories of romantic suspense and her historical novels. Her finest and most original achievement was Merlin Trilogy, an Arthurian saga: The Crystal Cave (1970), The Hollow Hills (1973) and The Last Enchantment (1979). The first of these was turned into a children’s television series in 1991. During years she resided in Scotland, where she died on 9 May 2014.

Full Series List in Order

Merlin & Arthur Saga

1 - The Crystal Cave (Jun-1970)
2 - The Hollow Hills (Jul-1973)
3 - The Last Enchantment (Jul-1979)
4 - The Wicked Day (Oct-1983)
5 - The Prince and the Pilgrim (1995)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • Madam, Will You Talk?

    Widow Charity Selbornehad been greatly looking forward to her driving holiday through France with her old friend Louise - long, leisurely days under the hot sun, enjoying the beauty of the parched Provencal landscape. But when Charity arrived at a pl...

  • Wildfire at Midnight

    I FOLLOWED MARCIA TO HER ROOM... She pushed her door open and groped for the light switch. When the lights went on I heard her gasp. She was standing as if frozen, her back to me, her hands up to her throat. Then she screamed, a high, tearing scre...

  • Thunder on the Right

    Artist Jennifer Silver has traveled to the picturesque, secluded Valley of the Storms in the French Pyrenees to meet with her young cousin Gillian, who is about to enter the Convent of Our Lady of the Storms. She had come to the convent--a brooding c...

  • Nine Coaches Waiting

    Linda Martin, an English woman is hired to be a governess for a young French boy. But a strange terror coiled in the shadows behind the brooding elegance of the huge Château Valmy. It lay there like some dark and twisted thing -- waiting, watching, ...

  • My Brother Michael

    ONLY A MOMENT BEFORE Camilla Haven is on holiday alone, and wishes for some excitement. She had been sitting quietly in a crowded Athens cafe writing to her friend Elizabeth in England, "Nothing ever happens tome..." Then, without warning, a st...

  • The Ivy Tree

    A TRICK OF COLORING... HER WALK... THE WAY SHE SMILED... An English June in the Roman Wall countryside; the ruin of a beautiful old house standing cheek-by-jowl with the solid, sunlit prosperity of the manor farm - a lovely place, and a rich inher...

  • The Moon-Spinners

    Young, beautiful, and adventurous Nicola Ferris loves her life as a secretary at the British Embassy on Greece. On leave from her job as a secretary in Athens, has been looking forward to a quiet week's holiday in the lush island of Crete, enjoying t...

  • This Rough Magic

    When Lucy Waring's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, young English Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. She believes there is no finer place to be "at liberty" ...

  • Airs Above the Ground

    Lovely Vanessa March, two years married and very much in love, did not think it was a strange for her husband to take a business trip to Stockholm. What was strange was the silence that followed. She never thought to look for her missing husband in V...



  • The Gabriel Hounds

    It's all a grand adventure when English Christy Mansel unexpectedly runs into her cousin Charles in Damascus. And being young, rich, impetuous, and used to doing whatever they please, they decide to barge in uninvited on their eccentric Great-Aunt Ha...

  • The Wind Off the Small Isles

    Mary Stewart's new story is lit with the special magic of people and of place that are the hallmarks of a famous author's best work. In a series of deft brush-strokes she brings her heroine, Perdita West -- a beautiful twenty-three-year-old -...

  • The Crystal Cave

    Merlin & Arthur Saga - 1

    WHO WAS MERLIN? Was the famed magician of Camelot and King Arthur's court really a sinister, all-powerful being from another world? Was he truly a Prince of Darkness? Or was he a man with the passions of other mortals? A man with unique intelligen...

  • The Little Broomstick

    A black cat that needs to rescue its brother from a witch's spell enlists the help of a lonely ten-year-old Mary Smith. It is Tib the black cat who leads Mary to the strange flower in the woods. When she discovers a little broomstick shortly after...

  • The Hollow Hills

    Merlin & Arthur Saga - 2

    Dark Ages. Keeping watch over the young Arthur Pendragon, the prince and prophet Merlin Ambrosius is haunted by dreams of the magical sword Caliburn, which has been hidden for centuries. When Uther Pendragon is killed in battle, the time of destiny i...

  • Ludo and the Star Horse

    One night when Ludo is home alone, his family's only horse, Renti, escapes from the stable. Overcome with guilt and fear, Ludo follows Renti out in to the snow, and before long the pair find themselves in the House of the Archer, a gateway to the Zod...

  • Touch Not the Cat

    Bryony Ashley knows that Ashley Court, the grand estate, is both hell and paradise -- once elegant and beautiful, yet shrouded in shadow. After the tragic death of her father, Bryony returns from abroad to find that his estate is to become the respon...

  • The Last Enchantment

    Merlin & Arthur Saga - 3

    Arthur is King! But while he is unchallenged on the battlfield, sinister powers plot to destroy him in his own Camelot. When the rose-gold witch Morgause, Arthur's half-sister, ensnares him into an incestuous liaison -- and bears his son, Mordred, to...

  • A Walk in Wolf Wood

    • / Paranormal Romance
    • Buy Buy

    DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO THE WOODS THEY WALKED. DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO THE MAGIC SPELL... Behind John and Margaret lay the paved road, the car, and their sleeping parents. Ahead of them lay Wolf Wood and a fantastic adventure of medieval magic. T...

  • The Wicked Day

    Merlin & Arthur Saga - 4

    The Wicked Day is the gripping story of Mordred, bastard son of King Arthur by incest with his half-sister Morgause, witch-queen of Lothian and Orkney. Morgause sent the child to the Orkney Islands to be reared there in secret, in the hope that one d...



  • Thornyhold

    There was only one part of Gilly Ramsey's lonely childhood that was magical-the visits from her godmother, Geillis Saxon, an extraordinary woman with special powers. When Geillis died suddenly, the grown-up Gilly inherited Thornyhold, Geillis's charm...

  • Frost on the Window and Other Poems

    Classical legend and location, myth and magic, birds and animals and the love of natural beauty are all reflected in this lyrically accessible collection of poems by the novelist Mary Stewart....

  • Stormy Petrel

    The isolated cottage on the island of Moila seems ideal for an aspiring poet in search of an ivory tower.... Rose Fenemore hopes that two weeks away from her teaching post at Cambridge might awaken her dormant muse. Her brother Crispin, a doctor i...

  • The Prince and the Pilgrim

    • / Paranormal Romance
    • Buy Buy
    Merlin & Arthur Saga - 5

    Eager, burning, and young, Alexander sets off towards Camelot to seek justice from King Arthur for the murder of his father. But he is diverted from his quest by beautiful, sensual Morgan le Fay, who persuades the young prince to attempt a theft of t...

  • Rose Cottage

    At the request of her beloved grandmother, war widow Kate Herrick returns to the idyllic English countryside and the tiny thatched dwelling of her childhood, Rose Cottage, where she must retrieve some valuable papers hidden in a secret safe. Yet Kate...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mary Stewart has published 24 books.

Mary Stewart does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Rose Cottage, was published in June 1997.

The first book by Mary Stewart, Madam, Will You Talk?, was published in January 1955.

Yes. Mary Stewart has 1 series.
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