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Morris West Books In Order

Vatican Books In Order

  1. The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963)
  2. The Clowns of God (1981)
  3. Lazarus (1990)

Novels

  1. Gallows on the Sand (1956)
  2. The Big Story (1957)
  3. Kundu (1957)
  4. McCreary Moves In (1958)
  5. The Second Victory (1958)
  6. The Devil’s Advocate (1959)
  7. The Naked Country (1960)
  8. Daughter of Silence (1961)
  9. The Ambassador (1965)
  10. The Tower of Babel (1968)
  11. Summer of the Red Wolf (1971)
  12. The Salamander (1973)
  13. Harlequin (1974)
  14. The Navigator (1976)
  15. Proteus (1979)
  16. The Concubine (1983)
  17. The World Is Made of Glass (1983)
  18. Cassidy (1986)
  19. Masterclass (1988)
  20. The Ringmaster (1991)
  21. The Lovers (1993)
  22. Vanishing Point (1996)
  23. Eminence (1998)
  24. The Last Confession (2001)

Collections

  1. Selected Works (1977)

Plays

  1. The Heretic (1969)

Non fiction

  1. Children of the Sun (1957)
  2. A View from the Ridge (1996)

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Morris West Books Overview

The Shoes of the Fisherman

A pope has died, and the corridors of the Vatican hum with intrigue as cardinals from all over the world gather to choose his successor. Suddenly, the election is concluded with a surprise result. The new pope is the youngest cardinal of all and a Russian. Shoes of the Fisherman slowly unravels the heartwarming and profound story of Kiril Lakota, a cardinal who reluctantly steps out from behind the Iron Curtain to lead the Catholic Church and to grapple with the many issues facing the contemporary world. This is a reissue of a firm favorite, of which millions of copies have been sold worldwide. The 1968 film based on the book won best film at the National Board Review and was Golden Globe and Oscar nominated.

The Clowns of God

What would happen, if the members of the Roman Curia discovered that the Pope was about to publicly state that he had received a private revelation that the world was about to end? Pope Gregory XVII claims to have received a private revelation of the end of the world an apocalypse coming not in some distant future but at any moment. Is he a madman, as his cardinals suspect, a mystic, or a fanatic grasping for an unholy power?

Lazarus

Morris West’s new novel is an exciting successor to the ten books he has had on the New York Times bestseller list five of those at the number one spot!At the heart of this thriller is Pope Leo XIV, a reactionary and forbidding pontiff who emerges from heart bypass surgery with a ‘change of heart’ about a lot of things. As he struggles to overcome the policies he himself put into place, he must battle enemies from within the Vatican as well as Islamic terrorists determined to assassinate himThis novel completes West’s papa trilogy begun with ‘Shoes of the Fisherman’ 1963 and continued with ‘Clowns of God’ 1981. It also stands alone as a superb, exciting exploration of theological politics in a world of crises.

The Big Story

Richard Ashley is a journalist working on a big corruption story. His job becomes more complicated when he falls in love with his subject’s wife. Morris West has written numerous novels, many of which have been made into films and television epics, including ‘The Shoes of the Fisherman’.

The Devil’s Advocate

A superior novel, intricately worked out at several levels of human and spiritual quest…
beautiful and impassioned. Commonweal A reading experience of real emotional intensity. The New York Times A unique cloak and dagger drama of the human soul. Saturday Review The Devil’s Advocate, Morris West’s best selling novel, is a deft exploration of the meaning of faith. In an impoverished village in southern Italy, the life and death of Giacamo Nerone has inspired talk of saint hood. Father Blaise Meredith, a dying English priest, is sent from the Vatican to investigate and to try to untangle the web of facts, rumors, and outright lies that surround Nerone’s life and death. With spiritual frailty as a backdrop, The Devil’s Advocate reminds us how the power of goodness ultimately prevails over despair.

The Tower of Babel

In the complex world of Middle Eastern politics not everyone is what he seems. In the cause of freedom no cost is considered too high. One terrorist is a statesman, the other is a criminal and a game of cat and mouse is played out in an explosive world.

Summer of the Red Wolf

A writer arrives on the Western Isles looking for peace of mind, but his meeting with three strangers completes a magical square that sets off a tale of madness and terror.

The Salamander

A political thriller set in Italy. For the moment the country walks a slippery, unfamiliar tightrope called democracy. On either side well organized groups of right wing and left wing extremists lie in wait, ready to pounce. The author’s other novels include ‘The Devil’s Advocate’.

The Navigator

The story of one man’s search for an uncharted, legendary island to which all navigators are said to go on the eve of their deaths. A tale of high adventure, ancient mystery and modern men and women rediscovering love, comradeship and tribal life, in the face of primal terrors.

Masterclass

This crime novel from the author of ‘The Shoes of the Fisherman’, ‘The Devil’s Advocate’ among many others, is set in the art world. This is a world known intimately to the author who is a keen collector and has served on several arts committees.

The Ringmaster

Linguist and negotiator Gilbert Langton has been selected to mediate the interests of Japan and Germany, but when conflict in the Middle East arises, the repercussions of international power plays ensnares Langton in a web of global deceit and blackmail.

The Lovers

Australian Bryan Cavanaugh had enjoyed an affair with an Italian princess, the wife of a rich American, and, after forty years, The Lovers reunite, and Bryan discovers that his son is an important Vatican bishop.

Vanishing Point

A story of flight and pursuit, of financial intrigue in the money markets of the world, of old dangerous secrets brought into the light, of men and women thrust suddenly from normal life into violent confusion, where one man can vanish and start all over again.

Eminence

Tells the story of the next papal election and of certain characters who may well be part of it. Most important of these is the ‘Eminence‘ of the title, Luca, Cardinal Rosini, a man who suffered torture and personal degradation as a young priest in Argentina. He is, by his own admission, a flawed man, but he’s still a man of power.

The Last Confession

West’s last novel he died at his desk, at its completion is a strong story of the philosopher and heretic Giordano Bruno, who was burnt by the Inquisition for his heresy. A major release! From the Foreword by Thomas Keneally: ‘Bruno was that perilous thing, a free spirit, and suffered death for his right to certain concepts. I knew from conversations with Morris that Giordano Bruno was a soul mate, someone with whose life history Morris identified, even though Morris possessed a somewhat less strident temperament than Bruno s. ‘Failed priest,’ as Morris has Bruno declare in this tale, ‘fugitive monk, magus with a box of conjuring tricks, boaster, prevaricator, would be torchbearer trudging through his own darkness, garrulous in dialogue, viperous in debate.’

A View from the Ridge

A personal, inspirational and positive account of a 20th century believer. Morris West, the author of ‘The Shoes of a Fisherman’, charts the struggles and ultimate acceptance of his religious faith.

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