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 newspaper reporter, well-known as romance

Romance novel

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 writer

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 under the pseudonyms Anne Weale and Andrea Blake. She wrote over 88 for Mills & Boon

Mills & Boon

Mills & Boon is a British publisher of romance novels. It was founded in 1908, and was independent until its purchase in 1971 by Harlequin Enterprises with whom the company had had a long informal partnership...

 from 1955 to 2002. She died on Wednesday 24 October 2007, at the time of her death she was writing her autobiography called "88 Heroes…1 Mr Right".

Biography

Anne Weale was a journalist and writer who resided mainly in Europe. She was best known for her romance novels of the 1980s. She published her first romance novel as Anne Weale in 1955 and her last novel in 2002.

Weale began her writing career while she was still at school, selling short stories to a women's magazine. Later she worked as a journalist to further her career and hone her writing. She worked as reporter for three different British papers until she decided to focus more exclusively on her novels.

Anne was a passionate traveler, which is reflected in her stories featuring many different exotic locations as the setting. When not traveling Anne and her husband, who had a son who leads adventure expeditions, spent winters in Spain and summers on the island of Guernsey.

Weale published numerous books, including numerous romance novels which have appeared in various series through the 1980s and 90’s. Anne considered her longer novels her greatest works. Unfortunately, these books were written in the 80’s and are now out of print. Nevertheless, readers all over the world continue to find her books in used bookstores and libraries. The majority of these titles focus on a fictional English country manor, Longwarden, and its inhabitants throughout time.

From 1998 to 2004 Anne wrote a website review column, called Bookworm on the Net, for The Bookseller, the UK’s leading weekly book trade magazine read by 80,000 people in 96 countries. In May 2005 she began a book-blog of the same name, and at the time of her death she was working on an autobiography called 88 Heroes…1 Mr. Right.

Single Novels

• Winter is Past (1955)
• The Lonely Shore (1956)
• The House of Seven Fountains (1957)
• Never to love (1958)
• Sweet to Remember (1958)
• Castle in Corsica (1959)
• Hope for Tomorrow (1959)
• A Call for Nurse Templar = Nurse Templar (1960)
• Until We Met (1961)
• The Doctor's Daughters (1962)
• The House on Flamingo Cay (1962)
• If This is Love (1963)
• The Silver Dolphin (1963)
• All I Ask (1964)
• Islands of Summer (1964)
• Three Weeks in Eden = Doctor in Malaya (1964)
• Girl About Town = Christina Comes To Town (1965)
• The Feast of Sara (1965)
• Terrace in the Sun (1966)
• The Sea Waif (1967)
• South from Sounion (1968)
• The Man in Command (1968)
• Sullivan's Reef (1970)
• Summer Lightning = That Man Simon (1971)
• A Treasure for Life (1972)
• The Fields of Heaven (1973)
• Lord of the Sierras (1974)
• The Sun in Splendour (1975)
• Bid Time Return (1977)
• Stowaway (1978)
• Now or Never (1978)
• The River Room (1978)
• Separate Bedrooms (1979)
• The Girl from the Sea (1979)
• The First Officer (1980)
• A Touch of the Devil (1980)
• The Last Night at Paradise (1980)
• Bed of Roses (1981)
• Rain of Diamonds (1981)
• Blue Days at Sea (1981)
• Passage to Paxos (1981)
• Antigua Kiss (1982)
• Wedding of the year (1982)
• All That Heaven Allows (1983)
• Yesterday's Island (1983)
• Ecstasy (1983)
• Summer's Awakening (1984)
• Frangipani (1985)
• Night Train (1987)
• Lost Lagoon (1987)
• Neptune's Daughter (1987)
• Catalan Christmas (1988)
• Do You Remember Babylon? (1989)
• Sea Fever (1990)
• Pink Champagne (1991)
• The Singing Tree (1992)
• Footprints in the Sand (1992)
• The Fabergé Cat (1993)
• Turkish Delights (1993)
• Seascape (1995)
• Never Go Back (1995)
• A Night to Remember (1996)
• Sophie's Secret (1996)
• A Marriage Has Been Arranged (1997)
• The Youngest Sister (1997)
• The Impatient Virgin (1998)
• The Bartered Bride (1998)
• Sleepless Nights (1999)
• Desert Honeymoon (1999)
• Worthy of Marriage (2000)
• Sea Change (2002)

Longwarden Saga

1. Flora (1983)
2. All My Worldly Goods (1987)
3. Time and Chance (1989) (AKA The Fountain of Delight)

Omnibus collections

• 3 Great Novels: Doctor in Malaya / The Feast of Sara / The Sea Waif (1976)
• The Best of Anne Weale: The First Officer / The Stowaway (1984)

Anthologies In Collaboration

• Golden Harlequin Library Vol. XXI: The Doctor's Daughters / Gates of Dawn / The Gift at Snowy River (1972) (with Susan Barrie and Joyce Dingwell)
• Send for Nurse Vincent / Island For Sale / Winter is Past (1973) (with Margaret Malcolm and Alex Stuart)
• Day That the Rain Came Down / Turning Tide / Sullivan's Reef (1974) (with Isobel Chace and Margaret Malcolm)
• Stranger in the Glen / The Man At Kambala / Lord of the Sierras (1978) (with Flora Kidd
  Flora Kidd
  Flora Kidd was a British-Canadian popular writer of over 70 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1966 to 2000.-Biography:Flora born on 1926 in Liverpool, England...
  
   and Kay Thorpe
  Kay Thorpe
  Kay Thorpe is a British author of over seventy-five romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon since 1968. All her novels have also been published under Harlequin Enterprises Limited. Over a period of four decades, she has produced a body of sensuous work that investigates heritage,...
  
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• Boardroom Affairs (2000) (with Day Leclaire
  Day Leclaire
  Day Leclaire is a best-selling American author of more than forty romance novels. She has been awarded numerous prestigious prizes from a multitude of organizations.-Early years:...
  
   and Leigh Michaels
  Leigh Michaels
  Leigh Michaels is the pseudonym used by LeAnn Lemberger , a popular United States writer of over 80 romance novels. She published her novels in Harlequin Enterprises Ltd since 1984 to 2006. She also teaches romance writing for Gothan Writers' Workshop among other places.-Biography:LeAnn was born on...
  
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• Marriages by Arrangement (2000) (with Diana Hamilton
  Diana Hamilton
  Diana Hamilton was a popular British writer of 50 romance novels in Mills & Boon since 1986.-Biography:Diana Hamilton was born in an English town.At 18, she studied to art college, where she met Peter...
  
   and Cathy Williams
  Cathy Williams
  Cathy Williams is a British writer of romance novels in Mills & BoonWilliams was born on Trinidad in the West Indies. She lives in Chiswick London, England which her husband Richard and their three daughters; Charlotte, Olivia and Emma.-Single Novels:...
  
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• Taming the Playboy (2001) (with Catherine George and Susan Napier
  Susan Napier
  Susan Napier was a popular New Zealand writer of over 30 romance novels in various Mills & Boon category lines since 1984.-Biography:...
  
  )

Single novels

• September in Paris (1961)
• Whisper of Doubt (1962)
• Now and Always (1964)
• The Night of the Hurricane (1965)