Simon Evers
The Coryston Family
Lady Coryston has inherited her husband’s estate but surprisingly has not left it on her death to Coryston (known as Corry) her oldest son. …
Sir Charles Danvers
The book is a romance with intrigue that involves secret identity and a a bigamous marriage, which centres around the romance between the ro…
The Danvers Jewels
Colonel Middleton is entrusted by his critically ill military superior, Sir John Danvers, with carrying some valuable family jewels from Ind…
A Study in Shadows
Among the mixture of people spending the summer in a pension (boarding house) in Geneva are Felicia, a 20-year-old, and Katherine (30) who b…
Sacred and Profane Love
Carlotta Peel is an unusual young woman – clever, self-opinionated, a brilliant author and yearning to love and be loved but also to serve h…
The White Peacock
Lawrence’s first novel is set in Nethermere (his name for the real-life Eastwood in Nottinghamshire). The plot is narrated by Cyril Beardsal…
Simon Called Peter
Peter, a conventional Anglican priest, becomes a padre in northern France during the First World War. He is posted to a hospital on the coas…
A Man from the North
Richard Larch, a young man from the north of England, arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has…
The Courtship of Susan Bell
Susan lives with her overbearing sister in a boarding house in Saratoga Springs run by their timid mother. A knock on the door brings an une…
The Side of the Angels
The book is set in New England in the early 20th century in an old established community where times are rapidly changing but nonetheless th…
Idols
The novel centres around four people: Gerard and Irene Merriam, their inseparable friend Hugh Colman who once saved Gerard’s life, and Minna…
Self-Control: A Novel (version 2)
Laura Montreville is a well-born and religious girl, brought up in Scotland by her widowed father. She is pursued by Colonel Hargrave, a lib…
Saint's Progress
Edward Pierson is the widowed vicar of a London church. He has two daughters, Eve and Noel, who is 17. In essence, the novel follows the bat…
At the Gate of Samaria
The novel is set in the 1890’s. Clytie Davenant is a headstrong young woman who escapes from the stultifying country life of her family to m…
Robert Elsmere
Essentially the book covers the life of Robert Elsmere, a boyishly intellectual clergyman. The first part covers his meeting with and eventu…
The Gambler (version 2)
The book follows the life of Clodagh Asshlin, an Irish girl brought up with her younger sister by her spendthrift father in the wilds of the…
Lady Connie
Constance Bledlow is a beautiful monied 20 year old with the world at her feet. She arrives in Oxford to spend a few months with her impover…
The Island Pharisees
Richard Shelton is wrestling with his conscience. As a member of the upper class at a time when the British Empire is at its height, he sees…
Marriage à la Mode
While travelling in the USA, Roger Barnes, a handsome Englishman, meets and falls in love with Daphne Floyd, a rich and determined American.…
Recompence
The book is a sequel to ‘Simon called Peter’ by the same author. It picks up the separate stories of Peter and Julie, at first in South Afri…