image : name book cover 

 

 

Juliette BENZONI

30.10.1920 - 7.2.2016

photo©claudiacompagnonigibb
Saint-Mandé 31.10.2009

First published in 1964 by :
William Heinemann Ltd, Pan Books, Fontana
translated by :
Jocasta Goodwin, Anne Carter
for Artworks see below:

TELOS Publishing 2015
Cover Artist
Martin Baines
Cover Design : David. J. Howe

The Lady of Montsalvy 2021
translatedy by:
Linda Compagnoni Walther & Stephen James Walker

Do not miss Catherine and the Media here
Information for new publications  → here 
   
TITLES IN ENGLISH

Book 1 Catherine, One Love is Enough (before: One Love is Enough)
Book
2 Catherine
Book 3 Belle Catherine
Book 4 Catherine : Her great journey (before: Catherine and Arnaud)
Book 5 Catherine : A time for love (before : Catherine and a time for love)

Book 6 Catherine : A trap for Catherine (before: A Snare for Catherine)
Book 7 Catherine : The Lady of Montsalvy 
ORIGINAL FRENCH TITLES

Livre 1 Il Suffit d'un Amour
Livre
2 Il Suffit d'un Amour
Livre 3 Belle Catherine
Livre 4 Catherine des Grand Chemins
Livre 5 Catherine et le temps d'aimer

Livre 6 Piège pour Catherine
Livre 7
La Dame de Montsalvy



Images for the Catherine Canadian PAN books


Pan books #1
1966

Artist: Hans Helweg


Pan books #2
1967

Illustrator :? ??


Pan books #3
1968

Artist: Hans Helweg





Belle Catherine illustrated by Hans H. Helweg


 

These 3 Catherine 'Pan books' were published for the Canadian market in 1966 - 1968! I owe this news to Mr. Grant Thiessen from www.bookitinc.com and would like to thank him for his kindness sharing this information with my website. Linda, webmaster 2008



Telos Publishing 2021

 

CATHERINE: THE LADY OF MONTSALVY- FIRST TIME EVER PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH ! 43 after the original French publication !


4 April 2021

Telos Publishing is proud to present the first ever English-language translation of the seventh and final book in Juliette Benzoni’s acclaimed, best-selling series of historical romance novels.

Translated into English by Linda Compagnoni Walther and Stephen James Walker.

ISBN: 978-1-84583-183-7

Publishing date: 1 June 2021


 Paperbacks & Kindle by Telos Publishing 2015, 2017, 2020, 2021

 


2015


2015


2017


2017

     


2020


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Hardcover images for the books between 1964 - 1974
 


Book 1
1964
Illustrator
Pino Dell'Orco


Book 2
1965
Illustrator
Jon Davis


Book 3
1966
Illustrator
???


Book 4
1967
Illustrator
David Grove


Book 5
1968
Illustrator
???


Book 6
1974
Illustrator
???


Paperbacks  for U.K., Australia, New Zealand, South Africa


1966
Illustrator :
Gino d'Achille


1967
Illustrator :
Gino d'Achille


1968
Illustrator :
???


1969
Illustrator :
Hans Helweg


1970
Illustrator :
Gino d'Achille


1977
Illustrator :
???


 

Alas, I did not yet discover all of the names of the Illustrators from the original hardcover and paperbacks who designed the jackets. This is what I found so far:

1. One love is enough - jacket Illustrator: Pino dell'Orco (Hardcover #1)
2. Catherine - jacket Illustrator:
Jon Davis (Hardcover #2)
3. Belle Catherine - jacket Illustrator ?
4. Catherine and Arnaud - jacket Illustrator:
David Grove (Hardcover #4)
5. Catherine and a time for love - jacket Illustrator ?
6. A Snare for Catherine - jacket Illustrator ?
7. Catherine: The Lady of Montsalvy - Ilustrator:
Martin Baines paperback #7) NEW


The same goes for the English and Canadian paperbacks

1. One love is enough - jacket Illustrator?
2. Catherine - jacket Illustrator:
Gino d'Achille (for Pan books GB)
3. Belle Catherine - jacket Illustrator :
Hans Heinrich Helweg
for the Canadian edition
4. Catherine and Arnaud - jacket Illustrator?
5. Catherine and a time for love - jacket Illustrator ?
6. A Snare for Catherine - jacket Illustrator ?

15 February 2020
I am really excited to announce that I finally know the name of the Artists for six of the Pan books covers for the CATHERINE Series. It was the great talented Hans Heinrich Helweg from Denmark and acclaimed Italian Artist Gino d'Achille. A big thank you to Tim Kitchen from www.tikit.net for this splendid news. Hans Helweg was a great Artist, I invite you to click on the link above.

June 2021
... and I am delighted that I have had contact with Mrs. Simona d'Achille who was so kind to confirm to me that indeed her late father the acclaimed Italian Artist Gino D'Achille had illustrated three of the 'Catherine' Pan books we see here below. They are:

ONE LOVE IS ENOUGH - CATHERINE - CATHERINE A TIME FOR LOVE
 


Simona d'Achille has confinded in me that  her father had at times asked her mother and his children to pose for a painting. In this particular case it was for 'Catherine and a time for love'. For this reason the fifth of the Catherine Pan books cover is her favourite and close to her heart. I admit that I am now looking at that particular cover with a tender smile. It is now his daughter who manages his Archive and Studio Editions. link to https://www.ginodachille.com/ website

For the American Book Covers see here


SOUVENIRS SOUVENIRS SOUVENIRS

Evening Standard 13 August 1964

Only original English article so far discovered  by this webmaster about ONE LOVE IS ENOUGH before the Novel was available in England at the bookstores...!

We learn from the small article on the Collage below, how many attempts the Artist tried out until they believed to have found the perfect image for 'Catherine.' Yet the Magazine 'Tatler' did not mention the name of the Artist...! I do not know this for sure, but in the Sixties and even later they did not think this necessary!

Yet in this particular book, Heinmann Ltd. printed in the inside of the dust jacket the name of the Illustrator. His name 'Pino Dell'Orco, a young  and very talented Italian Artist, invited to come to London by 'Renato Fratini', another great Artist from Italy. Later 'Dell'Orco' would get famous for his illustration for some of the 'Spy Thrillers' written by 'Desmond Bagley'! I owe this news to my friend 'Philip Eastman' from the official Desmond Bagley website., researcher and author of
the E-book: Desmond Bagley Writer : An Enguiry into a Novelist






16 February 2020
When I saw on the inside of the original dust jacket the name of the Artist DELL'ORCO. I could not resist and did some research about the Artist on Google. I was lucky and found The Bagley Brief website (about the English Author
Desmond Bagley (1923 - 1983) where the webmaster, Researcher and Author informs us that Pino Dell'Orco (born ? - 2013) was a renowned book cover Artist. Thanks to Philip Eastwood we are able to learn and admirer other Works by Pino Dell'Orco. I am very much honoured that the Book cover of ONE LOVE IS ENOUGH is now also immortalised there thanks to Phil.








Juliette Benzoni 1964 in London at a Cocktail party given in her honour by Heinemann Ltd, accompanied by the Press agent Gérald Gauthier. of Opéra Mundi.. on the second image above, we see BBC reporter 'Leigh Crutchley' interviewing  Benzoni. 


Bizarreness !

While searching for something specific, I stumbled over something bizarre concerning the Catherine covers... what you see here is on the left side the original Canadian cover for ONE LOVE IS ENOUGH from 1966 ! On the right side you see exactly the same Lady (watch closely the background...!) but the book is called : « The Lady of Monkton » by Elisabeth Byrd ! Oh and her dress is now grass-green...!

The website www.tikit.net of Tim Kitchen, where I found the cover, is speculating which cover came first ! The answer is 99% the Catherine book ONE LOVE IS ENOUGH 1968 by Hans H. Helweg.

The Lady of Monkton
was published in Hardcover 1975 - (if we can trust Amazon !) On « Goodreads » we read that the paperback came out in 1981!

I admit I am really baffled that a publisher like Pan books would have done such a cheat to save money...




1963 - translated article from French by Linda, webmaster



 

Photo showing Juliette Benzoni  dedicating the first time her Catherine book IL SUFFIT D'UN AMOUR /ONE LOVE IS ENOUGH at Editions Trévise in Paris 1963. We learn that England was also one of those 9 - 10 countries who bought the rights of the Book before CATHERINE was even available in the Bookstores.






On the painting above we see how Juliette imagined her heroine.
to know more about this painting follow link here



 


I
n Heinemann Ltd. original hardcover books (and a few othter countries) we see these two beautiful photos of Juliette Benzoni. The one on the left was taken by the acclaimed late writer photographer Jerry Bauer (
1934 - 2010 ) The photo on the right side was taken by another world famous photographer Sam Lévin (1904 - 1988).




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