Susan Howatch

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Title: The Dark Shore: Description:
thriller

Title: The Heartbreaker: Description:
The City of London in the 1990s is a dark, adrenaline- charged square mile deep in recession, where sex is just another commodity and keeping one's integrity is a daily struggle. Gavin Blake is riding high. He's up to his neck in money, sex and sleaze, but he's young, and handsome and he's making a lot of money. Carta Graham wants nothing more than to forget her life as a high- flying lawyer, so she's buried herself in a fund-raising project for the City Church of St Benet's. When she meets Gavin, she thinks the only thing they share is a temporary sexual attraction, but she's wrong. They are about to change each other's lives forever. For Gavin comes to see that in order to survive he must escape from the harrowing world he inhabits. His fight for freedom will be hard and fierce, but Carta, searching for her own freedom from the past, is with him every step of the way

Title: Sins Of The Fathers: Description:
Historical Fiction

Title: Cashelmara: Description:
The rich and mighty saga of a wealthy and titled English family in Ireland during the 19th century.

Title: The Devil On Lammas Night: Description:
Thriller

Title: Penmarric: Description:
From 1880 to the end of WW2 the fateful passions and chequered fortunes of the Castallacks, a rich, Cornish landed family (and their illegitimate Parrish brothers) are recreated with the clash of characters and sweep of narrative.

Title: Penmarric: Description:
The fateful passions and chequered fortunes of a rich, landed family, the Castallacks, and their illegitimate parish brothers, are recreated with the clash of character characteristic of the author's other novels which include "Cashelmara" and "Sins of the Fathers".

Title: The Waiting Sands: Description:
'Dearest Raye,' Decima had written.'I'm writing to ask if you can possibly come up to Ruthven for a few days. My twenty- first birthday falls next Sunday, and it would be such a relief if you could stay until after the celebration dinner party which Charles is giving for me on Saturday night. Please come, Raye. I may be behaving very stupidly by panicking like this, but I would feel so much less frightened if I knew you were beside me at Ruthven till after midnight on Saturday.' Dependable Rachel Lord hasn't heard from her friend Decima for over two years when out of the blue she is invited to Ruthven, the fairy tale Scottish castle that Decima will inherit on her coming of age. Her arrival is met with relief by Decima who is convinced her husband, Charles, means her harm. Is Decima in her right mind? Or is Rachel being duped by her worldlier friend? As the eve of the 21st birthday celebration approaches, a shocking event leaves Rachel in no doubt.

Title: Ultimate Prizes: Description:
Set in 1942, this novel describes the effect on a respectable archdeacon with a wife and a future in the Church of England, when he meets an attractive young socialite and is soon dangerously entangled in adultery, hypocrisy and obsession. The author also wrote "Glittering Images".

Title: Mystical Paths: Description:
In 1968, 26-year-old Nick Darrow, younger son of the psychic priest Jon Darrow, begins to realize that his life is a mess. To all appearances he is a sober-living young man, but in fact he is indulging in the sexual experimentation of his age and is in revolt against Church teaching.

Title: Glittering Images: Description:
It is 1937 and beneath the smooth surface of an episcopal palace lurks the sordid breath of scandal. Charles Ashworth, a Canon to the Archbishop of Canterbury is sent to untangle the web of corruption, only to become involved himself.

Title: A Question Of Integrity: Description:
When Alice wanders the City of London she stumbles into a situation which will revolutionise her life. Brought up by a strict maiden aunt Alice hardly foresees that she'll be drawn into the mysterious world of a healing centre at a church, where moral breakdown is an ever present threat to the human inhabitants who struggle to help others survive the maelstrom of modern life.