I have written over 60 novels, historical and contemporary, both under my own name and using pseudonyms. Many are in libraries.
Please also see the lists of my Crime and Suspense, Historical, Sagas, and Regencies under my own name and writing as Sally James.
I have also written several non-fiction books which are available from good bookstores.
All of these novels (except Manhattan Magic - coming soon) are now available as ebooks in popular formats from:
Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Sony, Diesel, Kobo, Apple, and W H Smith.
* = also in large print; + = also on audio tape
Contemporaries by Marina Oliver
- Chance-met Stranger
- The Garden Prize
- The Knot Garden
- Theft of Love
- Island Quest
- A Question of Love
- Fires in the Forest
- Hospital Heartbreaker
- Once Bitten
- Mating the Llama
Chance-met Stranger
Ebook from: Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, W H Smith, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Sony, Diesel, Smashwords,
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Janie Tempest's idyllic cottage, left to her by her godmother, is being demolished to make way for a new industrial park, and at the last minute the removal company can't do the job of moving her large items.
- Luckily the men dealing with her neighbour's move are willing to help.
- The handsome Manuel asks her out for dinner, and then becomes involved in her feckless sister's latest disaster.
- To make things even worse, Brian, the step-nephew of her godmother produces a will leaving the cottage to him.
- Previously published as A Dangerous Love * by Livvy West
- Ebooks 2011: Smashwords ISBN 9781466085329 Amazon
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
The Garden Prize
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Melanie is determined to win the Garden Prize for her dead father's garden, which was his great joy.
- She resigns her London job as a florist to run The Old Grange guest house for a year, so that the garden can be judged on the three weeks the village gardens open to visitors.
- Her former boss Michael offers her a partnership and marriage, her sister Angela wants her to sell the house quickly, and unknown vandals attack her garden.
- A guest, Paul Hunt, is sympathetic and helpful, but he is mysterious. Can she trust him?
- Previously published as Love's Sweet Secrets * by Bridget Thorn
- Ebooks 2011: Smashwords ISBN 9781465853752 Amazon
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
The Knot Garden
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When Mr Greenslade, owner of Green Valley Garden Centre, falls from his wheelchair one night and is rushed into hospital, his daughter Tansy, talented interior designer, gives up the chance of a prestigious commission to go home to the Cotswolds and take charge.
- Things have been going wrong at the Garden Centre, small irritating mistakes, petty vandalism, and what increasingly seems like major sabotage.
- Is the incompetent manager responsible, or the charismatic Karl, whose company is trying to buy the centre?
- Ebooks 2011: Smashwords ISBN 9781465796462 Amazon
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Theft of Love
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Linda's new boyfriend Pete enjoyed looking at stately homes.
- She was horrified, when they went to The Old Grange, where a big re-enactment weekend was taking place, to find he was planning to steal some of the antiques and expected her to help him.
- Furiously angry, she found help from a knight in armour, and together they determined to foil the crooks.
- Previously published under the pseudonym Bridget Thorn as Her Stolen Heart *
- Ulverscroft 2003 ISBN 0708999611
- Ebooks 2011: Smashwords ISBN 9781465812421 Amazon
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Island Quest *
Ebook from: Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Smashwords,
Ros Farleigh needs to find her half-brother. Tim Preston, nineteen and on his own for the first time as he works his way round the Mediterranean, playing the drums in hotel bands, vanished three months earlier leaving his precious drums behind.
- Always a regular correspondent, his last letter was full of mysterious hints of danger, surprises, and secrets. His last few postcards from Majorca had been marked, indicating isolated coves and unidentified buildings.
- Ros is staying at the Castilla hotel from which Tim vanished, where she encounters Lorenzo y Carreira, dark, arrogantly Spanish, talented guitarist, and too handsome for his own good.
- Sparks fly. Tim had mentioned going sailing with Lorenzo, and he might be able to help.
- Ros begins to learn some puzzling facts.
- Previously published under the pseudonym Bridget Thorn
- Ulverscroft 2002 ISBN 0708999298
- Ebooks 2012: Smashwords ISBN 9781465918468 Amazon
- Copyright © 2012 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
A Question of Love *
Ebook from: Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Smashwords,
Pippa, an American, wants to prove to her protective family that she can stand on her own feet.
- She is reluctant to return to the States after a few months in England and do as they and her father's partner expect, marry the partner's son Frank.
- Defying Frank, she accepts a job in Minorca as secretarial assistant to a former film star who is planning to write his memoirs. These promise to be explosive, and both his last wife and his nephew Juan try to persuade him to abandon the idea.
- Previously published under the pseudonym Bridget Thorn
- Robert Hale 1984 ISBN 0709016700 Ulverscroft 1992 ISBN 0708926169
- Ebooks 2012: Smashwords ISBN 9781465920263 Amazon
- Copyright © 2012 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Fires in the Forest *
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Nicola has just graduated in French, and takes a summer job in the New Forest as tutor/companion to the wealthy seventeen-year-old Sarah Frayn, before she starts a bi-lingual secretarial course.
- Unpredictable and volatile, Sarah rebels against the harsh rules imposed by her half-brother Robert, especially his prohibition on meeting her boyfriend.
- Nicola has clashed with Robert before, but when various calamities afflict the family, she is thrown into closer contact with Robert.
- Previously published under the pseudonym Bridget Thorn
- Robert Hale 1983 ISBN 0709013485 Ulverscroft 1992 ISBN 0708926533
- Ebooks 2012: Smashwords ISBN 9781466197657 Amazon
- Copyright © 2012 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Hospital Heartbreaker *
Ebook from: Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Smashwords,
Fleur enjoys working at Chad's, a big London hospital, and hopes the rumours from her previous hospital will not follow her.
- Only a few people know how she was kissed by an attractive patient.
- Then she discovers he is surgeon Russell Delaney, the heartthrob of Chad's, and despite his preoccupation with the lovely Rowena Kingsley, seems determined to add her to his list of conquests.
- Previously published under the pseudonym Bridget Thorn
- Robert Hale 1988 ISBN 0709033818 Dales 1998 ISBN 1853897159
- Ebooks 2012: Smashwords ISBN 9781466043763 Amazon
- Copyright © 2012 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Once Bitten
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Judy Morton doesn't want a man in her life. She breaks off her engagement to two-timing Mark Simmons, and is grateful to her sister Fay who asks her to look after her dogs while she and husband Paul have a long holiday in Australia.
- She is delayed starting out, arriving after Fay and Paul have left. Letting herself into the house she tosses some luggage onto the spare room bed only to find Justin Danby occupying it. He is Paul's cousin, offered a room by Paul until he can move into his own flat, which is being rented out while Justin, an architect, was working in Oman. He tells her Fay, an interior designer, often works with him and Judy suspects he and Fay could be closer than just colleagues. Justin is also recovering from a broken engagement from Barbara, who ditches him for a rich Texan.
- Justin offers to move out, meanwhile they agree they can co-exist. Justin suspects there is something worrying Judy. Walking the dogs Judy meets a neighbour, Ken, talkative and hospitable. Then their pasts begin to catch up with them. Late one evening Mark arrives, aggressive and attempting to resume the engagement. Barbara comes, having decided her Texan is not for her.
- Judy, meanwhile, is hoping to expand her small business designing and selling greetings cards, and Ken's wife Magda suggests she takes a stall at a local craft fair.
- Ebooks 2011: Smashwords ISBN 9781465812254 Amazon
- Copyright © 2011 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
Mating the Llama
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Wealthy, handsome, charismatic Cas Finley is restless. He likes women, too much, perhaps, as he seeks variety, and has been with Alice for longer than usual. Now finding her too bland and smooth, too elegant to make a farmer's wife, and incidentally afraid of llamas, his latest venture, he is wondering how to drop her without giving pain.
- Lucy, widowed when her unsatisfactory pop star husband is killed in a car accident, moves to Shorter's Green on the edge of the Chilterns to find a new life. She intends to start a mobile hairdressing salon. She is off men, except perhaps for Edward, a staid widower she's known since childhood, who is restful after the pop star life.
- Recalling her encounter with a gorgeous man that morning, Lucy is drowning her sorrows after Edward breaks a date, when she is visited by Rosa, the llama, invading her kitchen. Almost against her will she becomes involved in Rosa's love life as Cas seeks a mate for her.
- Ebooks 2012: Smashwords ISBN 9781466175105 Amazon
- Copyright © 2012 Marina Oliver. Cover design by Debbie Oliver
