Susan Howatch
1) Cashelmara
Author
Pub. Date
[1974]
Edition
[Book club edition].
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century Ireland, the de Salis family carries on through times of both riches and hardship, but their hard-won resilience will be threatened by tragedy of their own making. When Edward de Salis travels to America after the death of his first wife, he is astonished to find himself falling in love with Marguerite, a young woman many years his junior. Full of hope for the future, he returns to his Irish estate, Cashelmara, but in nineteenth-century...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
Paul Van Zale has earned his place among New York City's high-finance elite, but his ambition and outsize ego may be his downfall. In public, Paul Van Zale and his partners at his Wall Street investment bank are exemplary citizens and pillars of the community. In private, however, their lives are riven by jealousy, ambition, hatred, and lust. When the clever and sexy Dinah Slade insinuates herself into Paul's life in the 1920s, the banker's marriage...
Author
Series
Church of England series volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charles Ashworth, the bishop of Starbridge, is a man of great accomplishment, confidence, and conviction. Within the Church, he has earned a reputation as a strong, efficient, no-nonsense bishop. Outside the Church, he is known as “Anti-Sex Ashworth.” But when Ashworth's beloved wife dies, a profound crisis of his faith begin. unexpectedly and with brutal force. As bereavement overwhelms his spiritual equilibrium, his strict morality is quickly...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Nicholas Darrow, a strong-willed and independent young man, has grown up under the shadow of the Church of England and the loving but watchful eye of his father, an Anglican priest. Like his father, he too has both a gift and a burden in the form of psychic abilities. Although his father warns him to nurture his special powers with care, Nicholas can see no harm in the occasional dazzling “psychic flourish”—until one results in a friend's attempted...
5) Penmarric
Author
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
Among Mark Castallack's sons are men who want him dead, and this hardly promotes family harmony. Mark Castallack may have the woman of his dreams, a large fortune, and Penmarric, a Victorian mock-castle on the cliffs of Cornwall, but his private life is heading for disaster. His marriage fails, and when he takes a mistress he winds up with two families who hate each other. As the twentieth century unfolds, his children are left struggling to save...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
Cornelius Van Zale has the talent and ambition to unite his family's New York banking empire, but his heart is trapped in the past. Cornelius Van Zale considers himself lucky to have reached the top rank of his great-uncle's Wall Street bank. But along with the banker's gilded lifestyle comes a world of complicated affairs, bitter rivalries, and decades of unfinished business. As young Cornelius struggles to suppress the memories of his brutal past,...
Author
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Welsh heir Robert Godwin knows everything about his powerful family's interests, but what does he know of his own heart? Tucked in the hills of South Wales is Oxmoon, the ancestral estate of the Godwin family. In the summers before 1914, music streams through the family home as the Godwins, at the height of their prosperity, dance in the ballroom with their guests. But despite the remarkable talents of heir-apparent Robert Godwin, the fates have a...
Author
Series
Church of England series volume 1
Pub. Date
1987.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Charged by Canterbury with the spiritual monitoring of a wayward bishop, Dr. Charles Ashworth, a young, driven Anglican minister, encounters a genteel world whose deeply embedded apostasy forces him to confront his own inner demons.
13) Ultimate prizes
Author
Series
Church of England series volume 3
Pub. Date
1989.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
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