The Citadel (9781447244554)

An influential part in laying the foundation of the NHS, The Citadel is a moving story of tragedy, triumph and redemption.

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 enteritis. There are no X-rays, no ambulances - nothing to combat the disease and poverty.

It isn't long before Andrew's outspokenness and determination make him enemies - as well as winning him friends, and the love of an idealistic schoolteacher. Riches that he risks losing when the fashionable, greedy world of London medicine claims him, with its private clinics, wealthy, spoilt patients and huge rewards.

A classic saga by A J Cronin, one of the great masters of the genre, author of The Stars Look Down and Hatter's Castle.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 434 pages
• Dimensions 156 x 234 x 24mm | 662g
• Publication date 28 Mar 2013
• Publisher Pan MacMillan
• Imprint Macmillan Bello
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note black & white illustrations
• ISBN10 1447244559
• ISBN13 9781447244554
• Bestsellers rank 183,334

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Beyond This Place (9781447243823)

Paul Mathry, a student about to graduate and embark upon a teaching career, finds out that his father was convicted for murder, a secret that his mother had hidden from him since his childhood.

Driven by an intense desire to see his father, Paul sets out to visit him in prison, only to find out that visitors are never allowed there.

From there, he meets the primary witnesses in the case that convicted his father, not all of whom are supportive to Paul's cause. He encounters several dead ends but he persists, with the help of a store girl named Lena and a news reporter.

His persistent campaign finally bears fruit. Rees Mathry, Paul's father, goes on appeal and is vindicated. The novel ends with Paul's father, a hardened, cynical man, seeing a fleeting hope for self-renewal and a purposeful life.

In the magnificent narrative tradition of The Citadel, The Stars Look Down and Cronin's other classic novels, Beyond This Place is a great book by a much-loved author.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 322 pages
• Dimensions 156 x 234 x 18mm | 499g
• Publication date 28 Mar 2013
• Publisher Pan MacMillan
• Imprint Macmillan Bello
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note black & white illustrations
• ISBN10 144724382X
• ISBN13 9781447243823
• Bestsellers rank 972,709

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The Green Years (9781447243755)

Originally published in 1945, The Green Years is one of A J Cronin's best-loved novels. It tells the story of Robert Shannon, a young Irish Catholic boy, who, orphaned at the age of seven, is brought to live with his mother's estranged family in Scotland. As he grows up in a dour Presbyterian town, only his great-grandfather, an incorrigible, swaggering, charming, larger-than-life character, seems able to rescue him from the narrow interests of the people who try to shape his life in their own image.

Disappointed in love and in his burning ambition to study medicine, the eighteen-year-old Robert sees his future as a blank wall. But, once again, he is saved from despair by his fiery relative, much to the chagrin of the rest of the family.

This compassionate story of a boy's growth to manhood, set against the harsh reality of life at the turn of the century, shows A J Cronin at his masterly best, creating a vivid gallery of characters with his customary blend of imagination, insight and tenderness.

In the magnificent narrative tradition of The Citadel, The Stars Look Down and Cronin's other classic novels, The Green Years is a great book by a much-loved author

Product details

• Format Paperback | 322 pages
• Dimensions 156 x 234 x 18mm | 499g
• Publication date 28 Mar 2013
• Publisher Pan MacMillan
• Imprint Macmillan Bello
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note black & white illustrations
• ISBN10 1447243757
• ISBN13 9781447243755
• Bestsellers rank 909,886

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