Anne Baker (born 1914)is a British

Great Britain

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 writer

Writer

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 of historical biographies.

Anne Salmond was born just before the outbreak of World War I, the daughter of Geoffrey Salmond

Geoffrey Salmond

Air Chief Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond KCB, KCMG, DSO , commonly known as Sir Geoffrey Salmond, was a senior commander in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. Remaining in the Royal Air Force after the War, he held senior appointments in the Middle East, Great Britain and India...

 who later became the professional head of the Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...

. Anne Salmond was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

Lady Margaret Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located at the end of Norham Gardens in north Oxford. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £34m....

 And lived with her father and mother in both Egypt and India. She married Valentine Baker (1910–1979), and lives in Salisbury.

Anne Baker writer of romantic novels, trained as a nurse in England

England

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. She then married and lived in Libya

Libya

Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....

 and Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

 before returning to Birkenhead

Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England. It is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite the city of Liverpool...

 to work as a health visitor

Home health nursing

Home health nursing is a nursing specialty in which registered nurses provide home care to patients. Home health nurses also supervise home health aides. The professional nursing organization for home health nurses is the Home Healthcare Nurses Association ....

. She now lives with her husband in Merseyside

Merseyside

Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. It encompasses the metropolitan area centred on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary, and comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, and the city of Liverpool...

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Single novels

• Like Father, Like Daughter (1991)
• Paradise Parade (1992)
• Legacy of Sins (1993)
• Nobody's Child (1994)
• Merseyside Girls (1995)
• A Mersey Duet (1996)
• Moonlight on the Mersey (1996)
• Mersey Maids (1997)
• A Liverpool Lullaby (1998)
• With a Little Luck (1998)
• The Price of Love (1999)
• Echoes Across the Mersey (2000)
• Liverpool Lies (2000)
• A Glimpse of the Mersey (2001)
• Goodbye Liverpool (2002)
• So Many Children (2002)
• A Mansion by the Mersey (2003)
• A Pocketful of Silver (2003)
• Keep the Home Fires Burning (2004)
• Let the Bells Ring (2005)
• Carousel of Secrets (2006)
• The Wild Child (2007)
• A Labour of Love (2007)
• The Best of Fathers (2008)

Omnibus

• Anne Baker 2 in 1: Liverpool Lullaby, Mersey Maids (2004)

Anne Baker (b1914) the Historical Author wrote:

Historical

• Morning Star (1972), The life of Florence Baker, wife of the explorer Sir Samuel Baker
  Samuel Baker
  Sir Samuel White Baker, KCB, FRS, FRGS was a British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. He served as the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin between Apr....
  
  
• Wings over Kabul (1975), Account of the Kabul Airlift
  Kabul Airlift
  The Kabul Airlift was an air evacuation of British and a number of European diplomatic staff and their families conducted by the Royal Air Force from Kabul between December 1928 and February 1929.-Background and the Afghan civil war:...
  
  , co-written with Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman
• A Question of Honour (1996), The Fall and Rise of Colonel Valentine Baker
  Valentine Baker
  Valentine Baker , British soldier, was a younger brother of Sir Samuel Baker.-Biography:...
  
  
• From Biplane to Spitfire: The Life of Air Chief Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond (2003)