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The Crowthers of Bankdam 1940 - story of a west Yorkshire mill-owning family. "An ambitious and impressive novel about the Yorkshire wool trade. [It] deserves to be judged by high standards alike as a sociological study, and for its excellent gallery of portraits." Sunday Times

Dover Harbour            1942 - set in Dover during the Napoleonic Wars. "A full-blooded historical romance....A striking novel worked out on a large scale." The Scotsman.

King Cotton              1947 - the story of a Lancashire community based on cotton and devastated during the American Civil War owing to the blockade of ports. "This is the story of the year. It has life and it has guts." Yorkshire Evening News

Adam Brunskill           1952 - set in a lead-mining community in the Yorkshire Dales

Pilling always Pays      1954 - second novel about the Crowther family

A Ring has no End        1958 - set in Russia and tells the story of the wealthy,rapacious and debauched Kaivanov family over 100 years. They finally lose everything in the 1917 Revolution. The opening sentence sets the scene, "A land of rape, lust, and feud to the death..."

Sue Crowther's Marriage  1961 - third novel about the Crowther family, the great grand daughter of the original Crowther.

The Face of the Madonna  1964 - set in 14th century Yorkshire and concerns the relationship between a monk, Ughtred, and a nun, Lazelle. The background is of increasing protest, on the part of the Lollards, against the worldliness of the Church and its abandonment of truly Christian principles. The novel opens with the two lovers being walled up as punishment for heresy; the rest of the story shows the events leading up to the immurement.

Our London Office        1966 - a young member of the Crowther family goes to London to set up an office.