Madeleine Angela Polland (31 May 1918 – 2005) was a prolific Irish children's author.
Life and career Born Madeleine Angela Cahill in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland on 31 May 1918, her father moved the family to England while she was still in school. She attended Hitchin Girls' Grammar School in Hertfordshire from 1929 to 1937. She went on to work as an assistant librarian in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, from 1939 until 1942 and again from 1945 to 1946. In the Second World War she worked for the Women's Auxiliary Air Force at a radar installation (1942–1945).
In 1946, she married Arthur Joseph Polland. They had two children. Polland also wrote under the name Frances Adrian. She lived in later years in Málaga, Spain. Pollard wrote historical fiction which spanned multiple countries. She travelled to many of the locations herself.
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Children of the Red King, 1960 The Town across the Water, 1961 Beorn the Proud, 1961 Fingal's Quest, 1961 The White Twilight, 1962 Chuiraquimba and the Black Robes, 1962 City of the Golden House, 1963 The Queen's Blessing, 1963 Flame over Tara, 1964 Thicker Than Water, 1964 Mission to Cathay, 1965 Queen without Crown, 1965 Deirdre, 1967 The Little Spot of Bother (in the U.S. as Minutes of a Murder), 1967 To Tell My People, 1968 Stranger in the Hills, 1968 Random Army (in the U.S. as Shattered Summer), 1969 To Kill a King, 1970 Alhambra, 1970 A Family Affair, 1971 Package to Spain, 1971 Daughter to Poseidon (in the U.S. as Daughter of the Sea), 1972 Prince of the Double Axe, 1976 Double Shadow, 1977 Sabrina, 1979 All Their Kingdoms, 1981 The Heart Speaks Many Ways, 1982 No Price Too High, 1984 As It Was in the Beginning, 1987 Rich Man's Flowers, 1989 The Pomegranate House, 1992
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