Malcolm Macdonald: 21 books

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...

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...

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...

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...