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  • Grand Canary
    A J Cronin
    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 for the romantic Canary Islands. His past life is in ruins, and his hopes for the future are shattered.But he meets the lovely Mary Fielding...
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    27,52 €

  • Adventures of a Black Bag
    A J Cronin
    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 them household names: Dr Cameron and Dr Finlay.These stories have that universal appeal which has become A J Cronin’s trademark, establishe...
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    24,25 €

  • Adventures in Two Worlds
    A J Cronin
    Adventures in Two Worlds - an autobiographical novel by A J Cronin, creator of television’s Dr Finlay and author of The Citadel and many other bestsellers.A master storyteller, A J Cronin presents possibly his most fascinating tale. Taking material directly from his own life, he tells of the early struggles of a poor medical student in Scotland, the cruel crushing of all hopes ...
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    27,22 €

  • A Pocketful of Rye
    A J Cronin
    The poignant sequel to A Song of Sixpence.The clinic stood high on an Alpine slope. Lush meadows, studded with autumn crocus, sloped steeply down. Across the valley, above the pinewoods, the high peaks were already dusted with snow. Like a toy railway, the line to Davos twisted and turned up along the mountain side.Laurence Carroll breathed in the pure, clear air. A wonderful p...
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    24,18 €

  • Crusader’s Tomb
    A J Cronin
    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’s beauty. He must put on canvas the truth as he saw it, whatever the cost might be, whether it was the blank misunderstanding of h...
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    26,77 €

  • The Stars Look Down
    A J Cronin
    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 four men go down the mines. But David, the youngest, is determined that somehow he will educate himself and work to ameliorate the lives o...
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    29,40 €

  • Beyond This Place
    A J Cronin
    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 sets out to visit him in prison, only to find out that visitors are never allowed there.From there, he meets the primary witnesses in t...
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    27,31 €

  • The Green Years
    A J Cronin
    Originally published in 1945, The Green Years is one of A J Cronin’s best-loved novels. It tells the story of Robert Shannon, a young Irish Catholic boy, who, orphaned at the age of seven, is brought to live with his mother’s estranged family in Scotland. As he grows up in a dour Presbyterian town, only his great-grandfather, an incorrigible, swaggering, charming, larger-than-l...
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    27,31 €

  • Gracie Lindsay
    A J Cronin
    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 years earlier left Levenford pregnant and in disgrace. Now at 25 Gracie is more lovely than ever and just as careless of propriety ...
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    24,47 €

  • Lady with Carnations
    A J Cronin
    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 buys it. Katharine Lorimer, by hard work, flair and courage, has worked her way to the top of a trade that traditionally belongs to m...
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    24,22 €

  • Shannon’s Way
    A J Cronin
    Robert Shannon was a devoted scientist on the brink of a medical discovery of great importance. He had no time or inclination for women . . . or for any of the world outside his laboratory. But Jean Law had other plans for him. Strictly brought up by narrow-minded parents, confined by her hospital lectures and her dingy boarding-house, she hardly knew the fires that burned bene...
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    27,48 €

  • A Song of Sixpence
    A J Cronin
    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 steamer beats and froths down the wide Clyde estuary . . .A narrative in the great Cronin tradition, this is the stirring chronicl...
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    27,38 €

  • The Judas Tree
    A J Cronin
    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 brings him almost constant misery, until a chance remark makes him seek retribution in memories of the past and a return to his native Scotla...
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    27,31 €

  • The Minstrel Boy
    A J Cronin
    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 threatens to destroy the brilliant future that lies before him. Beloved of his parishioners and canon, he is devastatingly attractive to w...
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    27,28 €

  • The Northern Light
    A J Cronin
    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 begins his fight with the Chronicle, an almost defunct newspaper in the same area which is given new life by London-thinking and Lond...
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    27,64 €

  • The Spanish Gardener
    A J Cronin
    When Mr Harrington Brande moves himself and his precious young son Nicholas to a grand house in the deserted Spanish town of San Jorge he is planning on a fresh start for the two of them. And only the two of them.For Mr Harrington Brande is a proud man and a jealous man. His beloved wife has recently fled his stifling love and now Brande has transferred all of his adoration ont...
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    24,18 €

  • Three Loves
    A J Cronin
    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 arrival of another woman. Although she weathers this storm, cruel Fate has a further twist of the knife for her. Yet she heroically p...
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    29,85 €

  • The Keys of the Kingdom
    A J Cronin
    The Keys of the Kingdom is the unforgettable story of the Reverend Francis Chisholm and his fight against the snares of the world he has given up . . . his forbidden attraction to women . . . his struggle with his superiors...One of Cronin’s most famous characters, he strives for humility and strength to follow the path he sees as the true one for himself and the Church.From th...
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    27,28 €

  • The Citadel
    A J Cronin
    When newly qualified doctor Andrew Manson takes up his first post in a Welsh mining community, the young Scot brings with him a bagful of idealism and enthusiasm. Both are soon strained to the limit as Andrew discovers the reality of performing operations on a kitchen table and washing in a scullery, of unspeakable sanitation, of common infantile cholera and enteritis. There ar...
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    26,86 €

  • Hatter’s Castle
    A J Cronin
    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 compass of her family’s cold, comfortless house in a small Scottish town.Her mean and ambitious father tyrannised over his timid, obligin...
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    29,73 €

  • The Citadel
    A. J. Cronin / AJCronin
    This thrilling novel of a doctor’s life has been the subject of a Mobil Masterpiece Theatre dramatic series on PBS. 'Cronin’s distinguished achievement. . . . No one could have written as fine, honest, and moving a study of a young doctor as 'The Citadel' without possessing great literary taste and skill'.--'The Atlantic Monthly'. ...
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    18,77 €