Katharine Gordon

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Katharine Gordon was born on 1916 in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, but she grew up in India, and except for occasional trips to her mother-in-law's home in Kent or her own family in Scotland has spent her life in India, Africa and in Cyprus. She worked as Secretary to E. A. Army Wardens in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1950 to 1951; as Immigration Officer at the Immigration Department in Nairobi from 1954 to 1957; and as Consular Clerk at British Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, from 1964 to 1969. She married an English RAF pilot retired after World War II and flew as an airline captain, and it was while he was on long trips that she began to write. She wrote many manuscripts, some twenty in all, and finally submitted The Emerald Peacock, based on a true story, for publication in 1978, wich she won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, and in 1979 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award of Special Merit by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

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The Long Love
Representative edition published 2001
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The Palace Garden
Representative edition published 2001
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The Palace Garden
Representative edition published 2001
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The Emerald Peacock
Representative edition published 2000
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The Peacock Fan (Tony Fisher Only)
Representative edition published 1999
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The Peacock Fan
Representative edition published 1997
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Peacock in Flight
Representative edition published 1997
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In the shadow of the peacock
Representative edition published 1987
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The peacock ring
Representative edition published 1987
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Cheetah
Representative edition published 1986
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Peacock in jeopardy
Representative edition published 1984
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Peacock in flight, 1867-1868
Representative edition published 1979
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The Peacock Rider
Representative edition published 1997
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Peacock Fan -Lib -Op/026
Representative edition published 1996
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The Peacock Rider
Representative edition published 1996
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Peacock In Jeopardy
Representative edition published 1988
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In the Shadow of the Peacock
Representative edition published 1982
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Peacock in flight
Representative edition published 1981
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In the Shadow of the Peacock
Representative edition published 1980
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The peacock ring
Representative edition published 1978
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