Books like The Spire
Dean Jocelin, convinced he has been chosen by God, drives his medieval cathedral to build a four-hundred-foot spire on foundations that cannot bear it.
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Darkness Visible
A small boy walks out of the flames of the London Blitz, terribly burned, and grows up into Matty, a strange, devout wanderer whose path will cross that of a pair of twin girls.
Thaïs
Paphnuce, a desert monk in fourth-century Egypt, resolves to save the soul of Thaïs, the celebrated courtesan of Alexandria he once desired.
Murder in the Cathedral
A verse play: in December 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket returns to Canterbury after seven years of exile, and four tempters and four knights arrive.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
A young monk becomes so obsessed with the beauty of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto that he decides to destroy it.
War and War
György Korin, an archivist in a provincial Hungarian town, finds an ancient manuscript and travels to New York to put it on the internet before he takes his own life.
The Sea, the Sea
Charles Arrowby, a celebrated theatre director, retires to a house on the rocks by the sea to write his memoirs, and there meets Hartley, the girl he loved as a boy, now an unremarkable married woman in the village.
The House on the Strand
A man tries a hallucinogenic drug that sends his consciousness into 14th-century Cornwall, where obsession slowly overwrites his real life.
Matrix
Marie de France, seventeen and judged unfit for court, is sent to run a poor English abbey, and over the decades she turns it into a powerful, defiant community of women.
The Conservationist
Mehring, a rich Johannesburg industrialist, buys a farm for the weekends, and a body is found on its land.
Wolf Hall
Thomas Cromwell rises from blacksmith's son to Henry VIII's most powerful adviser, navigating the king's desire for a new wife and the reshaping of England.
The Vivisector
Hurtle Duffield, sold as a small boy by his poor parents to a rich Sydney family, grows up to become a painter who will use everyone he loves as material.
The Damned Yard
After the death of Fra Petar, a Bosnian monk, a younger friar remembers his stories of the months he spent in an Istanbul prison, and of Ćamil, a young scholar who came to believe he was an Ottoman prince.