Susan Howatch

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1971
  • Latest Book:
    January 2003
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Full Series List in Order

Related Books

1 - Sins of the Fathers (May-1980)
1 - The High Flyer (Oct-1999)
2 - The Rich Are Different (Mar-1977)

St. Benet's

1 - The Wonder Worker (Oct-1997)
2 - The High Flyer (Oct-1999)
3 - The Heartbreaker (Jan-2003)

Starbridge

1 - Glittering Images (Sep-1987)
2 - Glamorous Powers (Nov-1988)
3 - Ultimate Prizes (Oct-1989)
4 - Scandalous Risks (Oct-1990)
5 - Mystical Paths (May-1992)
6 - Absolute Truths (Jan-1995)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • The Shrouded Walls

    When Marianne Fleury, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Englishman, and Axel Brandson, who needed a wife to inherit the family fortune left to him by his father, were married, few doubted it was a marriage of convenience. Trapped in the isolate...

  • Penmarric

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    "I WAS TEN YEARS OLD WHEN I FIRST SAW THE INHERITANCE AND TWENTY YEARS OLD WHEN I FIRST SAW JANNA ROSLYN, BUT MY REACTION TO BOTH WAS IDENTICAL. I WANTED THEM...." Set against the starkly beautiful landscape of Cornwall, PENMARRIC is the totally ent...

  • The Devil on Lammas Night

    To those who did not know him, he was merely a pleasant young fellow. But to others, especially to women, he was the Devil. Nicola did not know that their meeting was part of an evil design nor did she know that Tristan had plans for her, plans that ...

  • The Dark Shore

    The anonymous voice from the past whispered into the receiver, "Welcome home, Mr. Towers. Does your fiancee know how you killed your first wife ten years ago?" Soon after Sarah moved into her new home as the bride of charming, enigmatic Jon Towers...

  • The Waiting Sands

    A haunting tale of a young girl, a strange love and an evil house... A birthday party -- with a surprise gift of sudden death... From the moment that Rachel Lord joined the celebration at Roshven, she was enveloped in an aura of impending doom...

  • Call in the Night

    THE TELEPHONE CALL Late in the night came the frantic call from my sister Gina, in London. “Claire, Claire, please come. Oh, Claire, I’m in such dreadful, terrible trouble. I don’t know what to do -- Claire, you just have to come, please,...

  • April's Grave

    Karen Bennett had fled to New York. She was trying to forget her marriage to Neville. Forget that she had discovered his affair with her twin sister, April. Now three years later and still in love with her husband, she was suddenly reminded of it ...

  • Cashelmara

    The New York Times bestselling saga: In nineteenth-century Ireland, a titled English family keeps an estate in an era of famine and violent conflict. When Edward de Salis travels to America after the death of his first wife, he is astonished to ...

  • The Rich Are Different

    Related Books - 2

    "Susan Howatch has surpassed herself. This is a mighty book."
    ORLANDO TRIBUNE
    Dinah Slade was young enough to be Paul Van Zale's daughter. But she didn't care. She was a very ambitious and beautiful woman with her eye on Van Zale's tremendous f...



  • Sins of the Fathers

    Related Books - 1

    "Full of fascinating dialogue, surprising twists of plot, and well-developed, memorable characters, a stunningly successful work of fiction."
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    This is the tumultuous novel of men and women pitted against a world of wealth, power...

  • The Wheel of Fortune

    Robert Godwin's tumultuous ride on the Wheel of Fortune begins with his passion for his sensual cousin Ginevra, as they waltz to 'The Blue Danube' beneath the chandeliers at Oxmoon, his beloved family home in Wales. As Robert discovers, his rational,...

  • Glittering Images

    Starbridge - 1

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first in Susan Howatch's acclaimed novels centering on the glorious Cathedral of Starbridge, Glittering Images is a masterful depiction of spiritual hubris, the seductions of power, and the moral dilem...

  • Glamorous Powers

    Starbridge - 2

    The time is 1940. Jonathan Darrow is an Anglican priest when he receives a shattering vision and knows he must leave the monastery that has been his home for seventeen years. As he plunges into the temptations of the real world, a crisis sends him in...

  • Ultimate Prizes

    Starbridge - 3

    The third in Susan Howatch's Church of England novels, Ultimate Prizes begins in 1942 with the world at war, as narrator and archdeacon Nevill Aysgarth finds himself falling into a hopeless obsession over Dido Tallent, beautiful celebrity, and f...

  • Scandalous Risks

    Starbridge - 4

    The Washington Post Book World has proclaimed that “Susan Howatch may well become the Anthony Trollope of the twentieth century.” Now, in Scandalous Risks, Howatch returns us to the English town of Starbridge, home to a great medieval c...

  • Mystical Paths

    Starbridge - 5

    “No writing today can equal [Susan] Howatch's ability to write compelling novels that combine theology and psychology in a complex, fast-moving plot offering beautifully delineated characters and the suspense of a mystery/thriller. . . . The denoue...

  • Absolute Truths

    Starbridge - 6

    It is 1965, and Charles Ashworth has attained the plum position of biship of Starbridge, an honor that keeps him in a heady whirl of activity that would exhaust the most seasonal corporate executive. With the invaluable support of his minions and his...

  • The Wonder Worker

    St. Benet's - 1

    Young, lonely, and insecure, Alice Fletcher is on the verge of emotional collapse when she stumbles into St. Benet's Church to dodge the London drizzle. There, she witnesses a group of gifted healers led by the charismatic Nicholas Darrow. Gaining re...

  • A Question of Integrity

    The inhabitants of a small community are interlinked by the healer at its heart, Nick Darrow. There is Alice, the romantic but also an outcast; Lewis the priest, an irascible traditionalist; Francie, who has a desire to be loved; and Stacy, a young t...



  • The High Flyer

    Related Books - 1
    St. Benet's - 2

    “A gripping two-pronged tale of psychological terror and spiritual redemption.” -- The New York PostSuccessful London lawyer Carter Graham has power, sex appeal, and a well-ordered life. Everything has gone according to plan, including her rece...

  • The Heartbreaker

    St. Benet's - 3

    Gavin Blake is a high-priced "leisure worker," a job that keeps him living large in Armani suits. But ultimately he answers to his manager, an eerily manipulative woman involved in some even shadier dealings. Gavin is in deep denial about his life. U...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Susan Howatch has published 21 books.

Susan Howatch does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Heartbreaker, was published in January 2003.

The first book by Susan Howatch, The Shrouded Walls, was published in January 1971.

Yes. Susan Howatch has 3 series.
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