V.A. Stuart / Vivian Stuart

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1953
  • Latest Book:
    January 1986
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About the Author

Violet Vivian Finlay was born on January 2, 1914 in Berkshire, England, daughter of Alice Kathleen (Norton) and Sir Campbell Kirkman Finlay. The majority of her childhood was spent in Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar), where her father worked. During her youth, she frequently journeyed between India, Singapore, Java and Sumatra. She married four times, and had five children: Gillian Rushton (née Porch), Kim Santow, Jennifer Gooch (née Stuart), and twins Vary and Valerie Stuart. Her studies included: Medicine in London, Pathologist in Budapest, and Chemistry and Laboratory Technique in Newcastle. During World War II, she joined the Australian Forces and was attached to the IVth Army, later transferred to British XIV Army in Burma.

Published since 1953, she signed her romance novels as: Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, and Robyn Stuart; she signed as V.A. Stuart her military sagas: Alexander Sheridan and Phillip Hazard; and as William Stuart Long she singed her historical fiction series: the Australians. In August 1986, Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann passed away at 72, who continued writing until her death.

Full Series List in Order

Alexander Sheridan Adventures

1 - Like Victors and Lords // Victors and Lords // Captain of Cavalry (Jan-1964)
2 - The Sepoy Mutiny // Mutiny in Meerut // Mutiny at Dawn (Jan-1973)
3 - Massacre at Cawnpore (Nov-1973)
4 - The Cannons of Lucknow // Battle for Lucknow (Jan-1974)
5 - The Heroic Garrison (Nov-1975)

Phillip Hazard

1 - The Valiant Sailors (1966)
2 - Brave Captains (Jan-1968)
3 - Black Sea Frigate // Hazard's Command (Jan-1971)
4 - Hazard of Huntress (Jun-1972)
5 - Hazard in Circassia (May-1973)
6 - Victory at Sebastopol // Hazard to the Rescue (Nov-1973)
7 - Guns to the Far East // Shannon's Brigade (Jan-1975)
8 - Escape from Hell // Sailors on Horseback (Jan-1976)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Proud Heart

    Scottish romance set in the Highlands....

  • Along Came Ann // Along Came Doctor Ann

    Harlequin Romance - 574

    Doctor Ann comes to the Island of Rhua in the Outer Hebrides to practice medicine and find love. Ann was unperturbed by old Doctor Aneas MacDiamid's obvious disapproval. She prided herself on being sensible about such matters and would do her job de...

  • The Unlit Heart // Jungle Doctor

    Harlequin Romance - 566

    Anton Kramer, a man of fierce devotion where his work as a surgeon was concerned, could never surrender to an uncompromising love like Deborah's. Had Deborah's experience of men been wider she must have known this, but guilelessly she consented to th...

  • Eyes of the Night

    • / General Fiction
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  • Pilgrim Heart // Doctor in the Tropics

    Harlequin Romance - 678

    Love, like fate, twisted unexpectedly! Dr. Francesca Challis didn't know that danger stalked the seemingly peaceful Pacific island of Loei. She takes up her medical duties there only to run into the man who had abandoned her in England without exp...

  • Lover Betrayed

  • No Single Star

    • / General Fiction
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    A romance set against the background of one of Australia's most exciting cities......

  • Nurse in Malaya

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Harlequin Romance - 558

    Nurse Mary Gordon left her hospital to join her stepmother, Lucy, in Malaya. She was devoted to Lucy, recently so tragically widowed, but the main purpose of her visit was to learn first-hand the circumstances in which her father had died. The first...

  • The Unlit Love



  • The Summer's Flower

    • / Contemporary Romance
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    The memory of a village in the Yorkshire dales had brought him back from halfway across the world.......

  • Like Victors and Lords // Victors and Lords // Captain of Cavalry

    Alexander Sheridan Adventures - 1

    1854... Captain Alex Sheridan, hero of the series that bears his name, commands a unit of the East India Company in the heat of the deadly battles of the Crimean War. Despised by the aristocratic generals of the regular army, Sheridan and his corps o...

  • The Valiant Sailors

    Phillip Hazard - 1

    Sebastopol, 1854 The Crimean War is remembered by most people as a military campaign. Yet, the valiant sailors of the Royal Navy performed feats of incredible daring and bravery. With their aging wooden ships, they assaulted the stone fortress of Se...

  • Brave Captains

    Phillip Hazard - 2

    October 1854: Admidst brutal cannonade and flashing sabers, the Plain of Balaclava thundered to two of the most incredible military maneuvers of all time -- the charge of the Heavy and Light Brigades. As the Russian cavalry prepares to launch a full-...

  • Black Sea Frigate // Hazard's Command

    Phillip Hazard - 3

    The Crimean War is at its peak as the winter of 1854 sets in, and Commander Phillip Hazard of the 31-gun, steam-screw frigate Trojan is sent to bring troop reinforcements from Constantinople to Eupatoria. On the way, he must handle an overbearing you...

  • Hazard of Huntress

    Phillip Hazard - 4

    The Crimean War rages on. Determined to break the stalemate, the British decide to send a spy into Odessa. And who better for this perilous mission than Captain Phillip Hazard, newly promoted to command of the steam-powered Huntress and fluent in Rus...

  • The Sepoy Mutiny // Mutiny in Meerut // Mutiny at Dawn

    Alexander Sheridan Adventures - 2

    1857, India: The sepoys, native soldiers serving in the British Army, are massing in response to a prophecy predicting the end of the reign of the British East India Company. Alexander Sheridan -- in command of a scratch cavalry force of civilian vol...

  • Hazard in Circassia

    Phillip Hazard - 5

    To break the stalemate in the Crimea, where the Russian city of Sebastopol still stands strong against the allies' siege, the British must search for unlikely help among the self-reliant mountain people of Circassia. Commander Phillip Hazard of HMS H...

  • Massacre at Cawnpore

    Alexander Sheridan Adventures - 3

    1857, Cawnpore: With savage mutineers laying relentless siege to its very gates, the British garrison at Cawnpore, in the north of pre-partitioned India, holds on with little more than will. A ragged band of exhausted soldiers defending some 400 frig...

  • Victory at Sebastopol // Hazard to the Rescue

    Phillip Hazard - 6

    Spring 1855, the height of the Crimean War, and the siege of the Russian city of Sebastopol continues. In a desperate attempt to cut the Russians' supply line at the Sea of Azoff, the Allies commit 15,000 troops, five batteries of artillery, and virt...



  • The Cannons of Lucknow // Battle for Lucknow

    Alexander Sheridan Adventures - 4

    Cawnpore is retaken, but they have come too late to stop the slaughter -- the relieving British soldiers can only stare at the ill-sited, poorly-defended entrenchment and shake their heads, wondering why. One of only two survivors, Colonel Alex Sheri...

  • Guns to the Far East // Shannon's Brigade

    Phillip Hazard - 7

    The Crimean War has ended at last, and Phillip Hazard finds himself in China, serving under the fiery Commodore Keppel. The British pull off a rousing victory against a Chinese junk fleet at Fatsham Creek, but later Hazard is dismayed to hear of the ...

  • The Heroic Garrison

    Alexander Sheridan Adventures - 5

    In this final volume of Stuart's Sheridan series, General Havelock's Moveable Column -- a force of barely a thousand men -- has finally fought its way through to the heroic garrison defending the Residency in Lucknow, only to be besieged themselves b...

  • Escape from Hell // Sailors on Horseback

    Phillip Hazard - 8

    With the Sepoy Mutiny still threatening British lives in India, Commander Phillip Hazard volunteers to accompany a special army force to rescue the besieged British garrison at Ghorabad. Hazard and the men of the Shannon's Naval Brigade are put under...

  • Darnley's Bride

    WENDY HAD MARRIED FOR LOVE Modestly born, she was charmed to be the wife of Sir Darnley Blood - and mistress of their castle overlooking the sea in the Scottish Highlands. But she was not so charmed by his gay divorcee friend, Georgie, and she cou...

  • The New Mrs. Aldrich

  • The Darkness of Love

    From the brooding Scottish highlands.... A gothic novel - of romance and terror. Kate Was The Bride-To-Be Of A Scottish Lord… And what a lord, thought pretty, vivacious Kate. Allan MacAllander was tall, dark, filled with charm and good humor,...

  • The Patriots // The Gallant

    Australia - an untamed land of limitless riches and dangerous dreams. A land of daring men and tempestuous women... Michael Cadogen - for him Australia means imprisonment in Tasmania's cruellest prison and an endless quest for freedom and revenge. ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

V.A. Stuart / Vivian Stuart has published 27 books.

V.A. Stuart / Vivian Stuart does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Patriots // The Gallant, was published in January 1986.

The first book by V.A. Stuart / Vivian Stuart, Along Came Ann // Along Came Doctor Ann, was published in January 1953.

Yes. V.A. Stuart / Vivian Stuart has 2 series.
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