The deaths of three people brought to an end six hundred years of rural solitude for the Luxton family of mid-Devon.  They were discovered with their brains shot away - a gruesome puzzle for the police to solve.

Earth To Earth: True Story Of The Lives And Violent Deaths Of A Devon Farming Family

Politics & Social Sciences

JOHN CORNWELL

Social Sciences

Penguin Books, Ltd.

POWERS OF DARKNESS POWERS OF LIGHT - Travels in Search of the Miraculous and the Demonic

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

This is the story of a mass-murder in Kentucky and subsequent legal action against the manufacturer of Prozac. Looking at murder, Prozac and the mind-brain mystery, the book raises issues that go far beyond the gruesome massacre: a combination of true crime and popular science.

The Power to Harm

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Backed by a wealth of new research, John Cornwell tells for the first time the story of the World War II career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who was Pope Pius XII, arguably the most dangerous churchman in modern history. In the first decade of the century, as a brilliant young Vatican lawyer, Pacelli helped shape a new ideology of unprecedented papal power in Germany. In 1933 Hitler became his negotiating partner, an agreement was arranged that granted religious and financial payments to the Catholic Church in exchange for their withdrawal from social and political privilege, ensuring the rise of Nazism.

Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Penguin MD

During the 1990s and into the 21st century, divisions within the Catholic Church have ripened into hatred and contempt and the Vatican is making little or no attempt to heal the antagonism. This text surveys the state of the Church throughout the world and suggests that a major schism in the Church is imminent unless the papacy determines to heal the rifts between conservatives and liberals, orthodoxy and pluralism. Amongst other things, the survey examines the role of women, the split between teaching and practice on sexual morals and the changing face of the priesthood.

Breaking Faith : The Pope, the People and the Fate of Catholicism

Christian Books & Bibles

Penguin??Books

The Late John Paul II was portrayed by admirers as one of history's great popes. But in The Pope in Winter, leading Vatican expert John Cornwell seriously questions the workings of his papacy and points to fundamental flaws - exacerbated by age and infirmity - that have alarming consequences for both the Catholic Church's future and John Paul II's successor.

Pope in Winter

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

On a September day in 1975, amid the pungent smells of ripe apples and falling leaves, Robbie, Francis and Alan Luxton were found shot to death on the remote Devon Farm that had belonged to their family for hundreds of years. Reclusive, eccentric, and miserly, the two brothers and a sister shared secrets no one ever suspected until their mysterious deaths brought attention to their strange lives. In a saga reaching back over generations, author John Cornwell probes the verdant surface of the peaceful Devonshire countryside to unearth the truth about a formidable family... to uncover a poignant tale of madness, love, and tragedy... to answer the dark questions about how they lived and why they died. --- from book''s back cover

Earth to Earth

Dell Publishing Company

Powers of darkness, powers of light: Travels in search of the miraculous and the demonic

Literature & Fiction

viking uk

John Cornwell was invited by the Vatican to conduct a new investigation into the circumstances of Papa Luciani's death and the allegation that he was poisoned in an assassination plot. This is the story of a quest that took the author from Rome to Milan, to Zurich, to Ireland and to New York, in pursuit of the men who had been close to John Paul I at his death.

A thief in the night: The death of Pope John Paul I

VIKING

The first biography to focus on Pope John Paul II's controversial reactions to recent crises in the Church and the global arena. In a bold and highly original work, The Pope in Winter brings John Paul's complex character into sharp focus. A veteran observer of the Vatican, Cornwell combines eyewitness reporting with impeccable sources. Respectful of John Paul's prodigious spirit and battles for human rights, Cornwell raises questions about a system that grants lifetime power to an individual vulnerable to age and illness. The result is a striking portrait of John Paul in the winter of his life and an incisive assessment of his legacy.

The Pope in Winter : The Dark Face of John Paul's Papacy

Viking Adult

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