Robert Shannon was a devoted scientist on the brink of a medical discovery of great importance. He had no time or inclination for women .

Shannon's Way

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 pursues her search for a great love amid hardships which inspire any reader with real sympathy - a sympathy which deepens as Lucy moves towards her final and most tragic discovery. In the magnificent narrative tradition of The Citadel, The Stars Look Down and Cronin's other classic novels, Three Loves is a great book by a much-loved author.

Three Loves

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 women, in particular the wealthy patron of his church at Kilbarrack, Ireland. But it is not until her wayward and sensual niece, Claire, arrives that disaster strikes .

The Minstrel Boy

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 of his comrades who ruin their health to dig the nation's coal. It is, perhaps, a typical tale of the era in which it was written - there were many novels about coal mining, but Cronin, a doctor turned author, had a gift for storytelling, and in his time wrote several very popular and successful novels In the magnificent narrative tradition of The Citadel, Hatter's Castle and Cronin's other novels, The Stars Look Down is deservedly remembered as a classic of its age.

The Stars Look Down

"Des gens mouraient à cause de cette abominable négligence, et la bureaucratie incapable ne levait pas le petit doigt. Ce n'était plus le moment de se comporter comme au chevet d'un malade, ni de prescrire d'insignifiants remèdes." Première affectation pour le jeune médecin Andrew Manson. qui découvre la frange industrielle du Royaume-Uni, abandonnée à son sort et accablée par la pauvreté. Le travail est pénible, pourtant Manson est bien décidé à accomplir au mieux sa mission : soigner. Des lugubres mines galloises aux quartiers chics de Londres, il lui faudra résister à l'incurie d'un système médical corrompu qui mettra à mal son intégrité. A sa parution en 1937, La Citadelle rencontra un énorme succès. Dans ce texte largement autobiographique. A.J. Cronin (1896-1981) trouve le parfait équilibre entre divertissement romanesque et critique sociale. Sa remise en cause du système médical causa de tels remous outre-Manche que l'on considère aujourd'hui que La Citadelle est à l'origine de la création du National Health Service, l'équivalent britannique de la sécurité sociale.

La citadelle

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 place, a not-too-demanding job as resident doctor to the convalescent children flown out from England; it was a million miles from his Scottish childhood, the struggles to qualify and the grinding, poverty-stricken years as a young GP in the Welsh mining valleys. He was relaxed. Happy. But, soon to arrive at Zurich, a woman he had once known well, now a widowed mother, was to bring with her all the turmoil and anguish of his early years, flooding back into his casually ordered life.

A Pocketful of Rye

Dr Finlay's Casebook brings together Adventures of a Black Bag and Dr Finlay of Tannochbrae, A. J. Cronin's two hugely popular collections featuring his most famous creation, Dr Finlay. Set in and around the fictional Scottish town of Levenford and village of Tannochbrae during the inter-war years, the stories found here are heart-warming, funny and touching, full of fascinating characters and unforgettable encounters. Made famous by the much-loved adaptations for radio and television, this edition features all the classic tales of Dr Finlay, his senior colleague Dr Cameron, and their unruffled housekeeper Janet, remain as fresh and entertaining now as they were upon first publication.

Dr Finlay's Casebook

A book which inspired the creation of the NHS introduced by bestselling writer, Adam Kay. By former doctor A. J. Cronin, The Citadel is a moving story of tragedy, triumph and redemption. With a foreword by Adam Kay, the bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt. 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 systemic corruption. There are no X-rays, no ambulances - nothing to combat the disease and poverty. It isn't long before Andrew's outspoken manner wins him both friends and enemies, but he risks losing his idealism when the fashionable, greedy world of London medicine claims him, with its private clinics, wealthy, spoilt patients and huge rewards.

Shannon's Way

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