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Rona Randall
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Rona Green was born on 16 June 1911 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK. Her education includes: Pitmans College in London, a Diploma in English Literature at Royal Society of Art, Birkenhead School of Art Literary. She married Frederick Walter Shambrook, and had a son.
A former actress, before writing, she worked also as journalist and sub-director of publishing company Amalgamated Press, and as assistant editor of George Newnes Ltd. Published since 1942, she started publishing mainly contemporary doctor nurse romances, before writing also gothic romances, and when the market for gothic novels softened, she wrote historical mystery romances. In 1970, Broken Tapestry, her contemporary novel about a broken family, won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. In 1989, she wrote her The Model Wife: Nineteenth Century Style, a book about social constumbres, including clothing. In 1992, she wrote Writing Popular Fiction, a complete guide for writers.
Full Series List in Order
The Potters Saga
1 - The Drayton Legacy (Aug-1985)2 - The Potter's Niece (Jul-1987)
3 - The Rival Potters (Jun-1990)
Book List in Order: 65 titles
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That Girl, Jennifer!
- 1946
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To the surrounding countryside, Jennifer Howard was tarred with the same brush as her notorious brother, Brent, overbearing and domineering, brutal with his fellow men but amazingly gentle with his farm animals, and Colin, weak, arrogant and lazy. Je...
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I Married a Doctor // She Married a Doctor // The Doctor Takes a Wife
- 1947
- / Contemporary Romance
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Wife versus Nurse. The story of Doctor Philip Conway and his romance with his dispenser, their marriage and the trouble beautiful Lavinia Ames causes when she enters their lives! Left alone by the death of her adored father, Jane was persuaded ...
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Shadows On the Sand
- Jan-1949
- / Gothic
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FROM THE SHADOWS A WOMAN EMERGED SLOWLY, AND SORREL HAD THE STRANGE CONVICTION AS SHE APPROACHED THAT THE PERSON WHO CAME TOWARD HER HAD BEEN WAITING…WAITING… Sorrel Dean, a lovely young British architect, arrives in Beirut to join her fiancé...
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The Island Doctor
- 1951
- / Contemporary Romance
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As he came to meet her, she felt her heart tremble, and thought: I hated him at first....
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Journey to Love
- Jan-1953
- / Gothic
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Sally O’Hara knew Shaun Hennessy for what he was…amorous, charming, and utterly without principles. When Shaun left her for the beautiful Venetia, Sally felt herself powerless to forget him. Desperately clinging to the hope that Shaun would ev...
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Girls in White
- 1953
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Against the fascinating backdrop of a busy hospital we meet lab assistant Linda Powell, hopelessly in love with the pathologist who only has eyes for microbes in his laboratory; Janet Humphrey, a staff nurse who is engaged to the boss but not in love...
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Sisters in Nursing
- Jan-1954
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Original title: Faith, Hope and Charity. Also published as: Lab Nurse This is the story of three sisters born and brought up within the precincts of a great hospital. Their parents had been killed in an accident when they were infants, and since ...
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Faith, Hope and Charity
- 1954
- / Contemporary Romance
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This is the story of three sisters born and brought up within the precincts of a great hospital. Their parents had been killed in an accident when they were infants, and since then St. Bede's had been at once their home, their school, their work, and...
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The Merry Andrews
- 1954
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A trespasser who changed her life. When a film company descends on the quiet town of Elmwood, its effect is like a thunderbolt in a quiet meadow. The arrival of a movie company caused quite a stir in normally quiet Elm wood, and especially in Doct...
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Desert Flower
- 1955
- / Contemporary Romance
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Blane was in love with the past - until Lesley taught him for live for today.......
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Leap in the Dark
- Jan-1956
- / Gothic
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Love prevent Nurse Jeanne from revealing her true identity... She found herself longing to be accepted by him... Jeanne Cleary’s eventual destination was the nursing school in London, but on her own for the first time she felt an urgency to sort...
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The Doctor Falls in Love
- Jan-1958
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Young Dr. John Curtis opened his children's clinic near Monte Carlo, not only because it was the ideal place for his work, but because it gave him a fresh start in life. The past was behind him -- and so was Catherine, the nurse who had jilted him fo...
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Nurse Stacy Comes Aboard
- Jan-1958
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Janet Stacey could not believe it when Peter Fuller broke their engagement. He told her that it would be unfair of him with so little income to ruin her chances for a “successful” marriage. Only a girl as much in love as Janet could have failed t...
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Sister at Sea
- Jan-1960
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After a tragic accident for which he is unjustly blamed, Dr. David Henderson says goodbye to medicine - and to Helen, the nurse who has not only defended him, but fallen in love with him. When they meet again on a luxury liner, Helen is the ship's nu...
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Enchanted Eden
- 1960
- / Contemporary Romance
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A successful film actress, Lisa had the world at her feet; but all she really wanted was the man she loved....
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Hotel de Luxe
- 1961
- / Contemporary Romance
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Can anyone ever really erase the black marks of an unfortunate past? Stella Baker seemed to have done so--she had a job she loved, working for John Henson, the man she loved, and the past had faded into a dimly remembered unpleasantness. And then ...
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House Surgeon at Luke's
- Jan-1962
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Her stubborn colleague was hard to work with... did he hate all women - or just her? When Lesley Drake joined St. Luke’s Hospital as House Surgeon it caused a sensation. For Lesly was a woman, and a beautiful one, and everyone knew that the Seni...
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Murmuring Willow // The Willow Herb
- Jan-1962
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Original title: Murmuring Willow. A closed door hid the key to the mystery of the man she loved. Was that door now about to open...? Between a man a two sisters, love is an impossible dream, and hatred a inescapable destiny. Young, beautiful, i...
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Walk Into My Parlor/Lyonhurst
- Jan-1962
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MASQUERADE FOR TWO... Belinda Masters had recently learned that she wasn't an orphan, as she had always thought; she had inexplicably been abandoned at birth by her aristocratic mother. Then, in the midst of her confusion, fate stepped in: Be...
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The Silver Cord
- Jan-1963
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Vanessa’s love for Gareth had come swiftly and effortlessly, and now she was afraid it would dies with the same ease. Already she could feel Hester’s delicate hands strangling their marriage. Gareth was drifting away from her and she knew why:...
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Seven Days from Midnight
- Jan-1965
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The curtain rose and the players, invisible to the audience, took their places. Their names were Suspicion, Intrigue, and Violence. When beautiful, malevolent Maxine Culver died after a fatal fall backstage, the cold finger of suspicion touched Su...
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The Arrogant Duke
- Jan-1966
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When lovely, high spirited Olivia Penrose entered the household of the Duke of Queensford she could readily believe the legends of amorous conquests that had sprung up around this handsome and wickedly fascinating man. But although she felt a powerfu...
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Broken Tapestry
- Apr-1969
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When Fenella Gilmore disappears with Mark Lawson, following his notorious trial, the tapestry of a happy family life is severed abruptly. Jason Gilmore, her brilliant and devoted husband, withdraws into a dark world of his own; Michael, their son, ch...
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The Witching Hour
- Nov-1970
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Helen Drake had come all the way to Janus Island, one of the remote, fogbound Channel Islands, to marry the man she loved--and found a funeral instead of a wedding; Humphrey had killed himself almost on the eve of her arrival. Or had he...? Hearts...
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Mountain of Fear
- May-1971
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Original title: Silent Thunder. A frightened girl probes into the past to find the secret that doomed her to a bizarre and sinister future. Margaret Buchanan seeks to learn the terrifying secret nestled in the ancient Cleft of Fenris, a quest m...
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Silent Thunder
- May-1971
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A trightened girl probes into the past to find the secret that doomed her to a bizarre and sinister future. Margaret Buchanan seeks to learn the terrifying secret nestled in the ancient Cleft of Fenris, a quest made imperative by the evil power po...
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Glenrannoch
- Apr-1973
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When Lavinia MacDonald returns to the wild and lovely home of her ancestors, she does not know quite what to expect. Certainly not the "Midnight Walker" who, according to legend, brings death to the family - and whose ghostly footsteps she hears outs...
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The Midnight Walker
- Apr-1973
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When Lavinia MacDonald returns to the wild and lovely home of her ancestors, she does not know quite what to expect. Certainly not the "Midnight Walker" who, according to legend, brings death to the family - and whose ghostly footsteps she hears outs...
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Dragonmede
- Mar-1974
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A brilliant and terrifying Gothic, DRAGONMEDE begins in London in the late 1800's, a time when nobility was the golden key that opened all doors. To Eustacia Rochdale, life was exciting, if uncertain. Her mother, beautiful and talented, courted the r...
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Watchman's Stone
- Aug-1975
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AN EXQUISITE MYSTERY OF LOVE AND EVIL Elizabeth was a woman apart from all others of the Scottish Highlands - her beauty spoke of delicate heather and dark moors; her intelligence guided her family's weaving mill to success and wealth; and her cla...
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The Eagle at the Gate
- Mar-1978
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Her heart soared on wings of rapture... and terror! BLINDED BY LOVE To Aptra Coleman, exquisite actress, the invitation to perform at the magnificent Abbotswood estate seemed heavensent. And the man of the manor, David Hilyard, desired her, ...
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The Mating Dance
- Sep-1979
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Two sisters are rivals os stage, and when the curtain falls... enemies in love. Alive with the color and drama of the theatre in late-Victorian London, this is the story of two aspiring actresses and their lifelong rivalry in art and love. Lucinda...
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The Ladies of Hanover Square
- Aug-1981
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Dulcima Howard, former Gaiety Girl, madame of a fashionable card salon, and mistress of young Lord Ashleigh, yearns for marriage and respectability. But Justin Ashleigh seeks more violent pleasures, for he has inherited the pale amber eyes and the in...
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Curtain Call
- Oct-1983
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1939 is a critical year in the lives of one of London's most famous theatrical families, the Carvers. Life for the Carvers is never the same after 1939. 1939 is a critical year for the theatrical Carver family. Grande dame Beatrice finds her leadi...
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The Drayton Legacy
- Aug-1985
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An historical novel set in 18th century Staffordshire with the rapidly industrialising potteries, where Joseph Drayton, Master Potter, runs the family business, untrammelled in his private ambitions, ambitions which include Meg, a gipsy girl who slav...
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The Potter's Niece
- Jul-1987
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Set in rural 18th century England, this romantic novel chronicles the lives of two families related by marriage: the aristocratic Freemans and the bourgeois Draytons, who employ most of the local residents at their pottery. Charlotte Freeman (heritri...
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Knight's Keep
- Sep-1987
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AN OLD MAN DIED - AND THE CURTAIN ROSE ON AN EERIE DRAMA... Orphaned Janet Bewleigh had become an heiress overnight - the unexpected reward for an act of kindness - and now the once-locked doors of her beloved Knight's Keep were open to her. Bu...
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The Rival Potters
- Jun-1990
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The past is a dark and dangerous place… Lionel Drayton has returned from America to claim what he believes to be his rightful inheritance " the Drayton pottery. Following the death of Martin Drayton, his widow Amelia and their daughter Oliv...
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Hotel Deluxe
- Jun-1994
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Can anyone ever really erase the black marks of an unfortunate past? Stella Baker seemed to have done so--she had a job she loved, working for John Henson, the man she loved, and the past had faded into a dimly remembered unpleasantness. And then ...
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The Frozen Ceiling
- Apr-1999
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When Tessa Pickard found the note, instinct told her that she had been responsible for his suicide, not the professional disgrace which had ruined his career as a mountaineer and instructor. The note bore a Norwegian postmark. Tessa promptly set out ...
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The Tower Room
- Mar-2001
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It is the late 1920s and Sarah loves her work as an apprentice in the sheds at the Staffordshire pottery Frenshaws. She is able to escape her miserable home life where her hateful step-father Joe abuses her mother, though not completely because Joe i...
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Time Remembered, Time Lost
- May-2004
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SNUG AND SECURE IN A WAY OF LIFE, IS ANYONE REALLY PREPARED TO FACE TOMORROW? Fenella Stark had been, and was still, the most beautiful debutant of the year. The fairy-tale fantasy of every female old enough to read the Society pages, Fenella had ...
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Award-Winning Books by Rona Randall
1970 RoNA -- Romantic Novel of the Year