Joyce Johnson

• Aug-1979
• / General Fiction
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The award-winning author of Minor Characters writes with delicious transparency about a love that cannot be harnessed and a woman who refuses to be deceived

In the great wave of husband-leaving ushered in by the Sexual Revolution,...

• Nov-1990
• / General Fiction
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A novelist recalls life among the writers in the beat generation, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, LeRoi Jones, and Gregory Corso, and the talented and tragic women who made up their circle...

• Oct-1993
• / Contemporary Romance
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From the award-winning author of Minor Characters comes a haunting novel about the persistence of love and the sustaining and destabilizing power of memories

In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art world of the 1960s, where ...

• Jul-2006
• / Contemporary Romance
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When Rosie Treloar discovers her fiancé is an unscrupulous conman, she flees London for her native Cornwall. Here, she takes a job as a tourist guide and meets American Ben Goodman, who is researching the mystery of his family's legacy, lost during...

• Oct-2006
• / Contemporary Romance
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Chantelle Wilde is a research interviewer for a film company, driving to Villefleurs in the South of France to interview the film star Heloise Remondin. But after she is hit by another car, the handsome driver, Phillipe Blanchard, insists on helping ...

• Apr-2007
• / Romance
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• Apr-2007
• / Contemporary Romance
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London life for Chloe Duncan is changed forever when she accepts an invitation to visit her previously unknown Scottish great aunt, Flora Duncan. Chloe loves the peace and beauty of rural Highland life at Flora's croft, but mysteries and tensions in...

• Nov-2007
• / Contemporary Romance
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With the support of a loving family, Julie Haywood is coping well with the trauma of divorce and the difficulties of single parenthood. Well on track with her medical career, she is looking forward to an exciting new promotion - not realising it will...

• Sep-2008
• / Romance
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When Jenna's parents receive news that aunt Olive is coming from Italy, they refuse to acknowledge her. Family secrets resurface and Jenna's initial delight turns to dismay. However, Olive and her family turn up, and Jenna meets her cousin Allesandro...

• Dec-2008
• / Romance
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After a tragic accident and the ensuing family squabbles, Katie Loveday fears that she may have to sell her beloved country house hotel and spa. When she also believes the man she has fallen in love with has designs on her business, the future looks ...

• Jul-2009
• / Romance
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As the Trevain family gathers for Sir Harry's funeral, tensions are surfacing. Then, at the funeral, a handsome stranger arrives from America claiming to be Sir Harry's grandson. Most of the family is outraged, however, granddaughter Daisy welcomes t...

• Sep-2009
• / Romance
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• Dec-2009
• / Romance
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Young widow Fleur Weston starts a new life when she turns her mother's legacy, Manoir de Belvoir, into a successful hotel and restaurant. Fleur and her small daughter love their French life, but the Manoir holds dark secrets....

• Feb-2011
• / Romance
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After a failed business venture and a broken engagement, artist Abbie Richards takes advantage of an opportunity to do a year's English teaching in Sicily. There, she becomes involved with the large, extended Puzzi family; it's members wealthy and po...

• Mar-2011
• / Romance
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Polly Fletcher's bold decision is to take her younger brother, Billy, to Australia for a better chance in life. There she falls in love with rancher, Jack Peterson. However, believing he is not free to marry she decides to leave. Billy then runs away...

• Jun-2014
• / General Fiction
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It's 1955. Seven days before her graduation from Barnard College, Susan Levitt asks herself, "What if you lived your entire life without urgency? Just before going out to make things happen to her that will shatter the mask of conformity concealing h...

• Mar-2019
• / Cozy Mystery
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Laura Olsen, whose life is interrupted by a pending divorce, travels to northern California to housesit a bed and breakfast inn for an old college friend. From the beginning, she gets involved with the small village of Mendocino and the death of one ...

• Dec-2019
• / Amateur Sleuth
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Final Voyage takes place on a cruise ship bound for the Southern Caribbean. On the first night of the voyage, a fatal accident occurs onboard involving one of the passengers at the dining table of Corinne Nelson, a young woman from New York. In this ...

• Aug-2020
• / Mystery
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An accidental encounter with a college buddy provides Matt Handley, a financial consultant living in San Francisco, an opportunity for a new client. But when he visits his old friend at his cabin on a small lake located in the Sierra Nevada mountains...

• Jul-2023
• / Cozy Mystery
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Newly arrived to San Francisco, Laura Summers meets Tom Edwards as she is visiting Grace Cathedral, the beginning of their mutual enjoyment of the city and one another. He's hiding his affiliation with a group that substitutes fake jewelry for the re...

• Aug-2023
• / Cozy Mystery
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Carla Stevens, a young woman who has recently moved to San Francisco, lives in an apartment building with an old-fashioned elevator. One night when she returns home from work, a young passenger asks Carla if she would allow her to send the elevator t...

• / Romance
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In Black Tors, on a bleak Cornish moor, the Grayhurst family squabble over a rumoured secret inheritance. Emma Cotleigh is nurse/companion to widowed matriarch Alice, who carries her own dark secrets. Into this web of intrigue and deceit Australian B...

• / General Fiction
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After personal and professional disaster in America, Crystal Tempest, a qualified surveyor, had returned to England to rebuild her life. Her uncle, the managing director of a large construction company, agreed to employ her on condition that she work...

• / Romance
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To Alice Foster, Jim Peterson's proposal of marriage from Australia is a passport to a better life. Full of hope, she arrives in Fremantle with her young brother, Tom, to be met by notorious gambler Frank Crossley, who is looking for cheap labour. ...

• / Romance
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Holly is shocked and upset when she learns of the death of her beloved grandfather in America. Then the solicitor tells her the strange conditions of her grandfather's will - she must run his charter boat business in North West Florida for three mon...

• / Romance
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After the tragic loss of her father and brothers at sea, Emily couldn't provide for the rest of the family by continuing the family tradition of fishing as her father's boat had been lost in the accident and he hadn't kept up the insurance payments o...

• / Romance
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When heiress Sophie Rivers accidentally discovers Richard Wetherby is marrying her to retrieve him from bankruptcy, she flees the wedding ceremony and assumes a new identity in rural Barton. Here Sophie discovers unexpected talents in a craft commun...

• / Romance
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Lexi Brooke's acting skills were stretched to the limit when she accepted the job of Personal Assistant to charismatic Cade Chamberlayne, head of the family-owned cosmetics and jewellery empire, Cosmogems. On a business trip to California, Cade disco...

• / Romance
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Staff Nurse Tessa Ferguson, engaged to charismatic cardiac surgeon Jerry Talbot, looks set to enjoy a wonderful future until she unexpectedly inherits a remote Caribbean Island. Jerry wants her to sell it to finance his own ambitions, but when Tessa...

• / Romance
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Never had young Faith Treloar's happiness in her beloved Cornwall been more threatened. Her family's tin mine was failing and they had been forced to sell their large house and move into a small cottage. To make matters worse, Harry Pascoe, the mid...

• / Romance
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For daring to disobey her antagonistic father, Bella Schofield was banished to Blackstone Grange, a bleak house on the North Yorkshire coast. She was housekeeper to widowed Harold Braithwaite and his young children. Initially hostile, the family soon...

• / Romance
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On a remote Scottish island, Cressida Bellingham seeks peace and solitude. Instead, she finds adventure and danger when she meets Jon Grant, a man convinced the key to his financial ruin lies in Quoyne House where Cressida is staying. Cressida and ...

• / Romance
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Beth Telford, the practical member of a family entertaining troupe, Telford Tourers, was content to take a backstage role until handsome Angus Lancaster became a regular member of the audience and subsequently joined the players. His appearance coin...

• / General Fiction
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Ellie's new job in Canada was to be the fulfilment of a dream - she had been commissioned by Conservation Planet International to take a look at logging in British Columbia. But on arrival at Vancouver airport, Ellie's dream turned into a terrible n...

• / Romance
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When the First World War ends, Annie Fletcher waits in vain for her sweetheart, Tom, to return. In the meantime, she throws herself into Tom's dream of running his own business by opening a grocery shop. In a large house nearby live Lord and Lady H...

• / Romance
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Alison Dowland is about to marry her childhood sweetheart, Joe, when his regiment is recalled to battle, and American soldiers descend on the tiny Cornish harbour of Porthallack to prepare for the D-day landings. Excitement is high as the villagers ...

• / Romance
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Her career and London life in ruins, Daisy Weston flees to the West country, buys her dream cottage in a remote moorland village and starts to build an organic herb business. When unexpected and menacing events begin to cloud the rural idyll, she su...

• / Romance
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At the turn of the 20th century, young Lizzie Benson's family decided to emigrate to Canada to seek a new life. Lizzie's dream was to become a schoolteacher once they had become established. She is soon drawn to the handsome stranger Dick Trevain wh...

• / Romance
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Lowenna Ripley thought it safe to return to her native Polcarrow in Cornwall. After all, Jake Courtenay, the man who had shattered her idyllic girlhood ten years ago, was on the other side of the Atlantic. However, the past returns to haunt her whe...

• / General Fiction
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Cornwall, early 19th century: With a busy boatyard to run, Will Trevanion had done his best for the past five years to bring up his six motherless children. Jessie, his eldest daughter, had been a great help to him, and now she was to be married to...

• / General Fiction
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Amy was shocked when her business partner disappeared with most of the money from the sale of their joint gardening venture. She decided to take up the new owner's suggestion and go to Cornwall to seek employment - someone he knew owned a studio and ...

• / Romance
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Sara Pascoe had grown up in Cornwall, but now she was executive head of Brady Vita-Health Centres in the United States. At a meeting to discuss plans for future expansion into Britain, Sara had a mental block and was only snapped out of it, and save...

• / General Fiction
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After the tragic loss of all of her family - first her brother, and then her parents - Lucy is pleased to learn she may have relatives in America. Hiram Bojangle III invites her to go and stay with him and his family on their luxury plantation in So...