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Morris West
Deep in cattle country in Australia’s remote north, Lance Dillon’s stud bull is killed by a party of Aborigines led by Mundaroo, and Dillon is himself speared. A dramatic manhunt…
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Four decades after their passionate and forbidden love affair, Bryan receives an urgent summons from Giulia, descendant of the ancient house of the Farnese di Mongrifone. The couple is plunged…
Son of a Norwegian master-mariner and grandson of Kaloni, the last of the great Polynesian navigators, Gunnar Thorkild is a man consumed by a dream ..
A famous writer travels to the remote, windswept islands of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides looking for peace of mind and a chance to dispel his inner demons
Secret passions and conflicts divide the Vatican, the Pope lies in a coma, dying. With the media rife with reports of the dying Pontiff’s personal diaries, full of doubts about…
In an impoverished village in southern Italy, the enigmatic life and mysterious death of Giacomo Nerone has inspired talk of sainthood. Father Blaise….
An Italian general is found dead in his apartment. Next to his body is a small card inscribed with a salamander in a bed of flames. Is it suicide or…
A Russian - and the youngest cardinal of all - is elected as the new pope. This is the story of Kiril Lakota, a cardinal who reluctantly steps out from…
Richard Ashley is a journalist working on a big corruption story. His job becomes more complicated when he falls in love with his subject’s wife. Morris West has written numerous…
Paul Desmond admires his close friend George Harlequin for his impeccable European breeding. Head of a prestigious Swiss bank, Harlequin belongs to a ..
When the daughter of an old Florentine family dies, she leaves a bequest to her lover Max Mather, an American art historian who has been managing the .
Mick McCreary is an oilman out of a job. His only possessions are a plane ticket to Singapore, a month’s pay in Indonesian rupiahs and the luck of the ..
A thriller by the author of The Devil’s Advocate . Set in the world of international business, it moves from the boardrooms of Europe to the high-tech companies of Japan…
When a powerful Australian politician dies, he leaves a tangled international web of debt and corruption for his son-in-law to unravel. Can Gregory avoid the trap that’s been set for…
Pope Gregory XVII has spent a lifetime quietly serving the Church he loves-until he announces a prophecy so alarming that it threatens to tear the ..
When a young woman murders the mayor in a quiet Tuscan village, the court case reveals a conspiracy of silence in a small community.
Months after the end of World War II a murderer is on the loose in the small town of Bad Quellenberg, Austria. Major Mark Hanlon of the Allied Occupation Force…
Written by the same author as bestsellers Children of the Sun , The Shoes of the Fisherman and The Clowns of God this psychological novel depicts the confused thoughts of…
This is a spiritual memoir from one of Australia’s popular authors Morris West, providing a final chapter to his extensive works. It is a personal and ultimately positive book on…
In the highland valleys of New Guinea a small colony of Europeans confronts the dark power of tribal sorcery.
Leo XIV, a pope physically at risk as well as spiritually troubled, is unlike his warmly remembered predecessor, John XXIII. Amid political intrigue and counterespionage, both pope and physician become…
Big John Spada is a self-made millionaire. From his headquarters in New York, he directs enterprises around the world with military precision
American ambassador Maxwell Gordon Amberley has a reputation as a tough negotiator. Yet when he is sent to Vietnam, the dilemma he faces throws him ..
One of the most famous victims of the Holy Office of the Inquisition was the brilliant Dominican monk Giordano Bruno, burnt at the stake for heresy in ..
In this novel notions of vanishing become entangled with the novel’s other concerns - the impulse to fly from intolerable reality, the impulse to absent oneself from the burden of…
