Malcolm Macdonald: 42 books

A practical guide for would-be novelists on that tricky first hurdle - the opening line and then the opening chapter of a novel. Novelist Malcolm Macdonald wrote 33 historical novels, published by Knopf, Simon & Shuster, St Martin's Press, and Sourcebooks in the USA and by Cape, Hodder, Headline,...

"The Dukes" is a magnificent novel about a family, with all the emotions, problems and drama of any large family — except that in this case the head of it, Augustus Clarence Fitzstephen Wrottesley Veitch du Bois, the Fourth Duke of St. Ormer, is about to die without an heir. A one-time intimate...

Malcolm Macdonald writes: On rereading Dickens’s "Oliver Twist" recently I found myself wondering – not for the first time – what magical storytelling powers impelled me to persist with a plot that has more holes than a net curtain. To be precise, there are 26 Incredible Coincidences, 21 Unanswered...

When published by St Martin's Press in New York and Piatkus in London, in 1990. The book attracted the following notices:• By far the best of his West Country sagas ... a highly unusual profile of a woman of those times — Eastern Evening News• Macdonald succeeds wonderfully in capturing...

Most Christians have, deep within them, a hunger for a more authentic and fulfilling experience of God. Set Me on Fire examines what it means to be filled with the fire of God, as the believers were at Pentecost. For over 20 years Malcolm Macdonald has been thinking about, studying, and teaching on...

When this book was published by St Martin's Press in New York and Piatkus in London, 1986, it attracted the following notices:● Chatterley meets Manderley — Washington Post● Macdonald inherited all of R.F. Delderfield's fans. His sagas set in England are a joy to read — Columba -...

When this book was first published by St Martin's Press in New Your and Headline in London, in 1993, it attracted the following notices:* If lavish romantic page-turners set your heart pounding, [this book] could be just the thing to fire up a chilly winter's evening — Irish Voice* A most...

First published in 1991 by Headline in London and St Martins in New York, A Woman Scorned attracted the following notices:* This lively account of life among the Anglo-Irish aristocracy combines absorbing historical background, a pleasing romance, and colorful characters — Publishers Weekly* Macdonald...

The unforgettable first novel in the classic Stevenson Family Saga from epic master Malcolm Macdonald John Stevenson is a just a foreman when a near-fatal accident bring young Nora Telling into his life. Her nimbleness of mind and his power of command enable them to take over the working mill...

Malcolm Macdonald started a residential real estate company in New York and went on to manage the real estate interests of AT&T Information Systems in the West Coast before accepting the position at Colgate Palmolive as their first director of real estate in 1982. Malcolm published his first book...

When published by St Martin's Press and Piatkus in 1994, the novel attracted the following reviews: The setting for Macdonald's new historical romance is the Cornish town of Penzance during WWI, but it might as well be Peyton Place for all the secrets and sexual high-jinks it hosts. The...

The gripping third novel in the classic Stevenson family saga from epic master Malcolm Macdonald After a dizzying rise filled with ambition and passion, the Stevensons are now one of the richest families in the world. John, recalling his lowly past, wants his children to obey to the letter...

Felix Breit was a noted sculptor in the 1930s but, as a "quarter-Jew" in the Nazi stereotype, he was arrested in Paris in 1942. The Gestapo always intended to release him - after the scandal had filled the papers and distracted the public from other mass arrests. But Felix went on the run until re-arrested...

It is the 1920s, an age of innovation and daring in transportation both on the road and in the air. At the forefront of motor-car development is Somerville's - to own a Somerville-bodied Rolls-royce is every man's dream. But when George Somerville has an accident that leaves him paralysed, the future...