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Madeleine Polland


UK flag (b.1918)

aka Frances Adrian

Madeleine Polland (who also wrote as Frances Adrian) was born in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, on May 31, 1918.

Madeleine was educated at Hitchin Girls' Grammar School, Herfordshire, from 1929 to 1937.

After leaving school, she served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and shortly after leaving married Arthur Joseph Polland in 1946.

Madeleine Polland has written several books for children and many novels for adults. Her first book for young readers, CHILDREN OF THE RED KING, was published in the UK by Constable in 1960.
 
 
Novels
   Children of the Red King (1959)
   Beorn the Proud (1961)
   Fingal's Quest (1961)
   The Town Across the Water (1961)
   Chuiraquimba and the Black Robes (1962)
   The White Twilight (1962)
   City of the Golden House (1963)
   The Queen's blessing (1963)
   Flame over Tara (1964)
   Mission to Cathay (1964)
   Queen without Crown (1965)
   Thicker than water (1965)
   Deirdre (1967)
   Little Spot of Bother (1967)
     aka Minutes of a Murder
   Stranger in the Hills (1968)
   To Tell My People (1968)
   Random Army (1969)
     aka Shattered Summer
   Alhambra (1970)
   To Kill a King (1970)
   A Family Affair (1971)
   Package to Spain (1971)
   Daughter Of The Sea (1972)
   Daughter to Poseidon (1972)
   Prince of the Double Axe (1976)
   Double Shadow (1977) (as by Frances Adrian)
   Sabrina (1979)
   All Their Kingdoms (1980)
   Heart Speaks Many Ways (1982)
   No Price Too High (1985)
   As it Was in the Beginning (1987)
   Rich Man's Flowers (1990)
   The Pomegranate House (1992)
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