Malcolm Ross-Macdonald

Malcolm Ross-Macdonald (Malcolm John Macdonald) (1932 in Shropshire –25 February 2024 in Tullamore ) was a British born writer and artist .

After growing up in England, South Africa and Scotland, he attended Falmouth School of Art and the Slade After the 1974 publication of his historic novel The World from Rough Stones, he became a full-time historical novelist

His wife was Ingrid, and he had two daughters, Petra and Candida with whom he had moved to County Offaly in the 1970s. He spent his last years in Banagher.

Works (Selection) The Big Waves (1962) Beyond the Horizon (1971) The Dukes (1981) Golden Eye (1981) On a Far Wild Shore (1986) A Notorious Woman (1988) Mistress of Pallas (1989) An Innocent Woman (1989) Hell Hath No Fury (1990), as M.R. O'Donnell A Woman Alone (1990) A Woman Scorned (1991), as M.R. O'Donnell A Woman Possessed (1992) All Desires Known (1993), as M.R. O'Donnell To the End of Her Days (1994) For I Have Sinned (1994), as M.R. O'Donnell The Trevarton Inheritance (1996) Penny Child (1996) Tomorrow's Tide (1996) The Carringtons of Helston (1997) Like a Diamond (1998) Tamsin Harte (2000) Rose of Nancemellin (2001)