A.J. Cronin

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1931
  • Latest Book:
    September 1978
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Full Series List in Order

Country Doctor

1 - Country Doctor (May-1935)

Dr. Finlay

1 - Adventures of a Black Bag (Jan-1943)
2 - Dr. Finlay's Casebook (Aug-1978)
3 - Short Stories from Dr. Finlay's Casebook (Aug-1978)
4 - Doctor Finlay of Tannochbrae (Sep-1978)

Laurence Carroll

1 - A Song of Sixpence (Jun-1964)
2 - A Pocketful of Rye (Jan-1968)

Robert Shannon

1 - The Green Years (Jan-1944)
2 - Shannon's Way (Jan-1948)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • Hatter's Castle

    A. J. Cronin's famous story is a soul-stirring novel of pride and greed, and its terrible retribution.

    When her father forced her to leave school, and cut off all her contact with the past and future, Mary Brodie's whole life became the narrow...

  • Three Loves

    Three Loves is yet another Cronin masterpiece. A powerful and moving novel which draws the reader into a passionate and tragic world of intense relationships. Lucy Moore, a happy and loving wife, suddenly finds her family security shattered by the...

  • Grand Canary

    Destiny brings two lonely people together in this moving love story by A J Cronin, one of the master story-tellers of our time.

    Dr Harvey Leith, brilliant research scientist, awakes from a drunken stupor to find himself aboard a liner bound fo...

  • Kaleidoscope in "K"

    In "Kaleidoscope" Cronin offers us the cross-section of a day in a clinic, a kaleidoscope of different destinies that chance has temporarily and casually approached. Two stories vibrate as dominant motifs on this backdrop: the first, the stor...

  • Woman of the Earth

    No wonder the Scotch countryside was interested in the schoolmaster’s pretty, new assistant. Twenty years before, her mother had left the place under a cloud. Is it true, the old saying, “Like father, like son”? Then must it also be true, they ...

  • Lady with Carnations

    Lady with Carnations is not only the traditional name of a famous Holbein miniature which unexpectedly comes into a London salesroom in the mid-thirties: it is also the soubriquet by which some of her close friends think of the antique-dealer who buy...

  • Country Doctor

    Country Doctor - 1

    Originally published in Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan magazine (May 1935), COUNTRY DOCTOR is A. J. Cronin's affectionate look at young Finlay Hyslop, a newly qualified Scottish doctor who assists a seasoned country GP in managing a vari...

  • The Stars Look Down

    The Stars Look Down was A.J. Cronin's fourth novel, published in 1935, and this tale of a North country mining family was a great favourite with his readers. Robert Fenwick is a miner, and so are his three sons. His wife is proud that all her fou...

  • The Citadel

    A groundbreaking novel of its time and a National Book Award winner: “[A] fine, honest, and moving a study of a young doctor” (The Atlantic Monthly).  The Citadel follows the life of Andrew Manson, a young and idealistic Scottish doctor, as ...



  • Mascot for Uncle

    in Three Stories: Mascot for Uncle + Child of Compassion + The Man Who Couldn't Spend Money

    Three rare novelettes by A. J. Cronin: MASCOT FOR UNCLE is the moving story of the special bond between “Uncle,” a would-be doctor whose object in life is to go to China as a medical missionary but who for 17 years is unable to pass his final exa...

  • Vigil in the Night

    Vigil in the Night represents something of an event for fans of A. J. Cronin. Here, published for the first time in book form, is his poignant and moving tale of two nurses - of Anne, who devoted herself to serving others, and of her younger sister, ...

  • Beyond This Place

    Paul Mathry, a student about to graduate and embark upon a teaching career, finds out that his father was convicted for murder, a secret that his mother had hidden from him since his childhood. Driven by an intense desire to see his father, Paul set...

  • Enchanted Snow

    Originally published in Redbook magazine (January 1940), ENCHANTED SNOW is A. J. Cronin’s romantic and thrilling tale of Lewis Merrid, a young American shipping company owner, who, while traveling by train to Vienna, becomes irresistibly attracted ...

  • The Valorous Years

    "The Valorous Years" represents something of an event for fans of A. J. Cronin. Here, published for the first time in book form, is his poignant and moving story of a young man, Duncan Stirling, who, though his left arm is crippled by polio, is deter...

  • Jupiter Laughs

    Jupiter Laughs is A. J. Cronin's 1940 play in three acts about a doctor and his love interest, who hopes to become a medical missionary....

  • Child of Compassion

    in Three Stories: Mascot for Uncle + Child of Compassion + The Man Who Couldn't Spend Money

    "They stood staring at Susan's face in shocked bewilderment and horror. They hadn't expected this-oh, not this!" Originally published in Redbook magazine (June 1940), CHILD OF COMPASSION is A. J. Cronin's poignant and moving story...

  • The Keys of the Kingdom

    AJ Cronin’s inspiring novel of a controversial Scottish priest on a mission in China, where he learns the true meaning of humanity -- and of faith.   Francis Chisholm -- a kindhearted and straightforward Scottish priest -- walks a path of his ...

  • Adventures of a Black Bag

    Dr. Finlay - 1

    The famous Dr Finlay stories.

    Adventures of a Black Bag represents a selection of A J Cronin's best stories - stories which are tragic, funny and wry, each revolving around two doctors whose tremendously popular TV and radio series have made t...

  • The Green Years

    Robert Shannon - 1

    The Green Years is a 1944 novel by A. J. Cronin which traces the formative years of an Irish orphan, Robert Shannon, who is sent to live with his draconian maternal grandparents in Scotland. An introspective child, Robert forms an attachment to his r...



  • The Man Who Couldn't Spend Money

    in Three Stories: Mascot for Uncle + Child of Compassion + The Man Who Couldn't Spend Money

    Originally serialized in Redbook magazine in 1946, “The Man Who Couldn’t Spend Money” is A. J. Cronin’s warmly human and moving story of Joe Mardent, an orphan whose impoverished childhood instills in him a reluctance to spend -- even after, ...

  • Shannon's Way

    Robert Shannon - 2

    Dr. Robert Shannon is a dedicated medical scientist who must learn to master his own temptations before he can vanquish human suffering. Sequel to The Green Years...

  • Gracie Lindsay

    Gracie Lindsay's return to Levenford arouses mixed feelings: to her uncle Daniel she is the daughter he never had; to David Murray she is the woman he still loves though he is now engaged to another; and to the townspeople she is the girl who seven y...

  • The Spanish Gardener

    Harrington Brande lavished all his pompous love on his young invalid son. But months in the Mediterranean sunshine, in the care of the tender gardener, made little Nicholas blossom into an exuberant vitality. Then his father's possessiveness asse...

  • Adventures of a Young Doctor

    In 1951 Collier's magazine published "Adventures of a Young Doctor," a series of six articles in which Scottish writer/physician A. J. Cronin, bestselling author of "The Citadel," chronicles his experiences-some heartwarming, some...

  • Adventures in Two Worlds

    "Adventures in Two Worlds" is an autobiographical novel of a general practitioner turned author, who went on to write such famous novels as The Citadel, Hatter's Castle, The Keys of the Kingdom, The Stars Look Down, not forgetting the tel...

  • Escape From Fear

    Originally published in serial form in Collier's magazine in 1954, ESCAPE FROM FEAR is A. J. Cronin's thrilling tale of a young American engineer in Austria who crosses over into the Russian Zone on business and becomes entangled with the Sov...

  • Crusader's Tomb // A Thing of Beauty

    Knowing his father's profoundest wish, that his son should succeed him as Rector of Stillwater, Stephen Desmonde tried to be worthy. But the siren call of art was too overwhelming; he felt driven as though by demons to pursue his vision of the world'...

  • The Northern Light

    Henry Page, owner of The Northern Light, the oldest and most respected newspaper in Tynecastle, is offered a vast sum to turn over control to a mass-circulation group based in London. He refuses - despite entreaties by his wife to accept - and so beg...

  • The Innkeeper's Wife

    A J Cronin was commissioned by The American Weekly to write a Christmas story for the December 21st issue in 1958. His vision for the story is described in his letter of acceptance: “It came to me very strongly that to achieve the highest and mo...



  • The Native Doctor = An Apple in Eden

    Dr. Robert Murray and Nurse Mary Benchley travel to a remote Caribbean island to care for a rich sugar planter while he recovers from a serious operation. But Murray and Benchley discover that a wicked conspiracy is brewing against the planter and th...

  • The Judas Tree

    In a story of wide and fascinating detail A. J. Cronin tells of Dr. David Morey who tries to atone for his desertion of the woman he loved.

    Beguiled by the prospect of riches he goes on to marry Dottie, a spoiled but beautiful neurotic who bri...

  • A Song of Sixpence

    Laurence Carroll - 1

    In the heat of late afternoon, a young boy waits at the station for his father. A plume of steam, white against the purple-heathered hills, marks the train. Beyond, blooming along the shoreline, the flowers of high summer, as a tall-funnelled paddle ...

  • A Pocketful of Rye

    Laurence Carroll - 2

    A Pocketful Of Rye is a novel of cunning and conscience, life and the struggle to continue living with the sadness of love all but forgotten in the wake of days gone by, written with the imaginative energy and driving force of all of A.J. Cronin's no...

  • Desmonde // The Minstrel Boy

    Desmonde Fitzgerald is handsome, charming and blessed with a marvellous singing voice - he is the Minstrel Boy. He becomes a priest, winning the coveted Golden Chalice for his singing when in seminary school abroad. But the duality of nature threaten...

  • Dr. Finlay's Casebook

    Dr. Finlay - 2

    Dr Finlay's Casebook is a delightful collection of episodic stories of Dr Finlay and his life in the fictional Scottish village of Tannochbrae during the inter-war years and based on A.J. Cronin's own experiences as a doctor. The BBC went on ...

  • Short Stories from Dr. Finlay's Casebook

    Dr. Finlay - 3

  • Doctor Finlay of Tannochbrae

    Dr. Finlay - 4

    Dr Finlay, that well-loved and most respected doctor of Tannochbrae, is back with a host of new adventures. Staunchly supported by Dr Cameron and the faithful Janet, Finlay continues to assure himself a place among the immortals in the annals of Scot...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

A.J. Cronin has published 37 books.

A.J. Cronin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Doctor Finlay of Tannochbrae, was published in September 1978.

The first book by A.J. Cronin, Hatter's Castle, was published in January 1931.

Yes. A.J. Cronin has 4 series.
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