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Naomi Jacob
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Naomi Eleanor Clare Ellington Jacob was born in Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the first daughter of Samuel Jacob and Selina Sara Ellington Collinson (aka Nina Jacob). Her father served as headmaster of the Ripon Grammar School, where her mother also work as teacher. Her father was the son of a Jewish refugee from Prussia, but rejected his Jewish ancestry. Nonetheless, Jacob was much attached to her Yiddish-speaking paternal grandfather, a tailor, who maintained Jewish traditions, and later proudly drew attention to her Jewishness. Her maternal grandfather, Robert Ellington Collinson, was a mayor of the town and owner of the Unicorn Hotel of Ripon where the Prince of Wales once stayed. Her great-grandfather Thomas was the second chief police officer in Ripon. After her parents' divorce, Jacob left for Middlesbrough to complete her education and work as a student teacher. She soon left the teaching profession, however, to become an actress in revue. It was around the same time that she contracted tuberculosis, a condition that was to affect her for the rest of her life. With physical activity becoming more difficult, Jacob channelled her creative efforts into writing. Jacob moved to Lake Garda in 1930 because the weather was kinder to her lungs. There is a blue plaque erected in her honour in Sirmione, where she lived. She was well known in the town and her home was known as 'Casa Micky'. During the Second World War she returned to the UK to help in the war effort. She worked for Entertainments National Service Association producing morale boosting broadcasts and live performances for the troops. She never gave up her home in Italy and returned soon afterwards. She died in Sirmione in 1964.
Full Series List in Order
The Gollantz Saga
1 - The Founder of the House (Jan-1935)2 - That Wild Lie... (Jan-1930)
3 - Young Emmanuel (Jan-1932)
4 - Four Generations (Jan-1934)
5 - Private Gollantz (Jan-1942)
6 - Gollantz: London, Paris, Milan (Jan-1948)
7 - Gollantz and Partners (Jan-1958)
Book List in Order: 58 titles
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Jacob Ussher
- 1925
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Story adapted from the play "Birds of a Feather" by Henry V. Esmond by permission of his wife, Eva Moore....
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The Plough
- Jan-1928
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Five years of the life of Patrick Eltham, and his emotional education and bow four women influenced him -- a sensual actress, a coarse married woman, a flapper, and “the only woman for him.”...
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That Wild Lie...
- Jan-1930
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A moving saga of divided loyalties, family ties, love and war, set in London and Switzerland, mainly during the Great War. The second book in the bestselling Gollantz Family Saga, tracing the lives and loves of the family over several generations...
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Young Emmanuel
- Jan-1932
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Young Emmanuel is the third book in the Gollantz Saga, following the lives and loves of the Gollantz family over several generations. History is fated to repeat itself as Max and Angela's sons are driven apart by ambition, lies, and rivalry f...
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Four Generations
- Jan-1934
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Four Generations is the fourth book in the Gollantz Saga, following the lives and loves of the Gollantz family over several generations. Three years after returning from Italy, Emmanuel Gollantz is now married to Viva, but memories of Juliet, and...
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The Founder of the House
- Jan-1935
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A gripping saga of family ties and rivalries, love and ambition in nineteenth century Paris, Vienna and London. The Founder of the House is the first book in the bestselling Gollantz Family Saga which traces the lives and loves of several generati...
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Honour Come Back
- 1935
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Young Michael, since childhood, has hated the sight of pain, and is considered a coward by his father. When, despite his loathing of suffering, he is drawn into the War, his taut nerves give way and he becomes obsessed with the conviction that he him...
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The Lenient God
- Jan-1936
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A novel about Bill Warren, an ordinary man, and the "little people" of present-day London....
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Time Piece
- Jan-1936
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"Time Piece" is a novel that covers a long period of time, terminating in the present. During its plot we discover two such dissimilar businesses as the wine trade and an engineering factory....
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Full Meridian
- Jan-1939
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Married to William Harrington, a drunken degenerate, Ann's life had been threadbare and colourless. So she leaves him. But surely life has more to offer her than the Yorkshire family business she runs so efficiently. Then she met Wilford. Can thi...
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The Porcelain Clay
- 1939
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A man who is not Jewish, decides to pretend to be, because he feels that he would be an asset in his business. But he is not aware of the complications that will bring him....
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Sally Scarth
- Jan-1940
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During the Victorian era, Sally Scart, a young orphan, enters the service of an earl and falls in love with her son. But when she becomes pregnant, the social prejudices separate the couple....
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Susan Crowther
- 1940
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Paris was at her feet - But Jules... did he really love her?...
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The Cap of Youth
- Jan-1941
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John was desperate for love, and marries the girl of his dreams the vivacious Louise. But they had made a disastrous marriage, and the harsh reality of being trapped in a tense, quarrelsome relation destroys his illusions - and there seemed no way to...
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Private Gollantz
- Jan-1942
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Private Gollantz is the fifth book in the classic Gollantz Saga, following the lives and loves of the Gollantz family over several generations. Italy is in the grip of Fascism, and Emmanuel Gollantz realises it is no longer safe for him and his s...
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White Wool
- Jan-1943
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Set in the woolen mills of northern England in the later part of the nineteenth century. Raised in extreme poverty in the North of England, the life working in the woollen mill was transformed by visits to an aunt in Redcar. Abel Moss rises from pove...
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Honour's a Mistress
- Jan-1946
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Flight Masters marries Alicia who he loves truly but they are separated by the second world war and she moves to work in London and he escapes the battle and tries to find his way home back to her while his is labeled as 'missing', Alicia'...
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A Passage Perilous
- Nov-1947
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The story of a family where the parents meet in one world war little expecting that their children will have to fight in another....
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Gollantz: London, Paris, Milan
- Jan-1948
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The penultimate volume of the much-loved Gollantz saga.The Gollantz family experience both hope and heartbreak in the aftermath of the war. Meanwhile, Emmanuel and Julian's sibling rivalry reaches a dramatic conclusion.A poignant, compelling story of...
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Mary Of Delight
- 1949
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16th century, Mary Stuart was the Queen of Scots, her life was tragic and familiar tale. This is a historical fiction with a special emphasis on the influential men in her heart, who played such prominent parts in her extraordinary life....
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The Heart of the House
- 1950
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Set against a background of Yorkshire and Bournemouth, its characters are Drake Marsden, son of a prosperous solicitor in a Yorkshire country town, estate agent to Sir Robert Maudesley, an autocratic but impoverished landowner who treats him badly. D...
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A Late Lark Singing
- Jan-1951
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The story of a family divided by conflicting ambitions. Ann Lockly's realization that she no longer loves her husband, Silas, forces her to live her life in the way she feels is right for herself and best for her children....
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The Morning Will Come
- Jan-1953
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A race apart - joys and tragedies of a Jewish family....
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Second Harvest
- 1953
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This novel tell of Monica Crawshaw relationship with two men - with the sensual, selfish Hamish McPhail who brutally betrays her, and with Victor Towers, a young man of gentle disposition with whom she discovers love of a strength and depth she has n...
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Tales Of the Broad Acres
- 1955
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Comprising Sally Scarth, The loaded stick and Roots....
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Wind On the Heath
- 1956
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A moving story of family ties and true love battling against the odds in wartime Yorkshire. From their first meeting there is an undeniable attraction between Liz Tancred and Michael Anderson, but convention means they must keep their feelings to...
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Gollantz and Partners
- Jan-1958
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The moving conclusion to the acclaimed Gollantz family saga.When young Charles Gollantz arrives at the sale rooms with a surprising claim, the family must adapt to a new reality. And the scene is set for another generation of intense sibling rivalry....
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What's To Come
- 1958
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Success - Riches - Love - were theirs - but not without heartbreak - not without pain....
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Search for a Background
- 1960
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Where shall a man find his true background? Edward Frewen, employed in a Bradford textile business, seeks his in the home which he and his beautiful young wife, Aimie, have newly founded together. But, traveling abroad on business, Edward glimpses ot...
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Long Shadows
- 1964
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After being disinherited by her father, Sidone announced her intention to go to Paris to study art. She however turned to fashion designing and at the famous fashion house of Maison Royale she soon became chief designer. Before leaving there to go to...