Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: Charles Ashworth is privileged, pampered and pleased with himself. As Bishop of Starbridge in 1965 he 'purrs along as effortlessly as a well-tuned Rolls-Royce' while he proclaims his famous 'absolute truths' to a society which he sees — with rage and revulsion — as increasingly immoral and disordered. But then a catastrophe tears his life apart and confronts him with the real absolute truths,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 457 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 483) Аннотация: Deftly combining the sacred and the profane — the unmistakable hallmark of her fiction over the past decade — Susan Howatch gives us a spellbinding, suspenseful and psychologically intense new novel. The financial heart of London — the City — is an adrenaline-charged square mile deep in recession in the 1990s, a place where sex is just another commodity to be bought and sold in the marketplace.…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: When You Live The Dream, You Live The Consequences… Cool, blonde Carter Graham is a successful lawyer who believes she is well on the way to reaching all the goals listed in her glamorous life plan: first-class job, a stylish flat in London, and marriage to the man of her dreams, Kim Betz. But Carter forgot that sometimes the best laid dreams turn into nightmares. Kim's ex-wife Sophie starts to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Successful London lawyer Carter Graham has power, sex appeal, and a well-ordered life. Everything has gone according to plan, including her recent marriage to Kim Betz, an investment banker with the right combination of looks and position. On the surface it appears to be a match made in heaven. The only problem is Kim's ex-wife. Sophie begins to follow Carter like a shadow, making outrageous…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: It is 1965, and Charles Ashworth has attained the plum position of bishop of Starbridge, an honor that keeps him in a heady whirl of activity that would exhaust the most seasoned corporate executive. With the invaluable support of his minions and his attractive, unsinkable wife, Ashworth stands against the amorality and decadence of the age — «Anti-Sex Ashworth». He slays his opponents by being a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: An outstanding storyteller, Susan Howatch has created a novel of spirituality and morality where the loyalties and passions of four people are played out against their dedication to religion and the path of right.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Neville Aysgarth, archdeacon, and right-hand man of the Bishop of Starbridge, has spent his life chasing worldly success. In 1942 he has a perfect wife, a perfect family and a perfect future in the Church of England — all ultimate prizes. Then Aysgarth meets an attractive young socialite and is soon dangerously and chaotically involved in adultery, hypocrisy and obsession. Tormented and on the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Told with all of Susan Howatch's drama, intelligence, and emotional depth, Mystical Paths is a breathtaking novel about the powerful, often painful, but finally indestructible ties between parent and child. And like its four highly praised predecessors in the Church of England series, this novel celebrates the redeeming power of self-knowledge and faith.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: As Venetia Flaxton edges closer to the threshold of a love affair with the Dean of the Cathedral — a man old enough to be her father — his hidden emotional past and her moral conflict lead them deeper into the mysteries of the human heart and soul. A powerfully moving novel set in the turbulence of the 1960s. Passionate.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Set against the starkly beautiful landscape of Cornwall, PENMARRIC is the totally enthralling saga of a family divided against itself. At the center of the novel is the great mansion called Penmarric. It is to Penmarric that Mark Castallack, a proud, strange, and sensitive man, brings his bride Janna--the first act in a tempestuous drama that was to span three generations....
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: This is the tumultuous novel of men and women pitted against a world of wealth, power, and privilege...the story of the powerful Van Zale clan, and the man, Cornelius Van Zale, whose dynastic struggle to control a great fortune becomes the center of his life. When the world of the Van Zales, of servants and country houses, of European summers and Bar Harbor clambakes, polite marriages and…