Other Novels from Ignatius Press
Ignatius Press is happy to offer a growing number of gripping novels. If you liked The Death of a Pope, you might also try the titles below.
We're glad to present great authors of fiction like Piers Paul Read (he's also published a book of essays, Hell and Other Destinations, with us) alongside Michael O'Brien, Lucy Becket, Ralph McInerny, G. K. Chesterton, Louis de Wohl, and others. Browse below for a small subsection of our fiction selection.
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A Postcard from the Volcano
Lucy Beckett
A deeply moving historical novel that shows the horrific impact that two world wars had on whole countries, and how individuals struggled to deal with the incredible challenges presented by such devastation.
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The Island of the World
Michael O'Brien
This novel cuts to the core question: how does a person retain his identity, indeed his humanity, in absolutely dehumanizing situations?
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Father Elijah
Michael O'Brien
Michael O'Brien presents a thrilling apocalyptic novel about the condition of the Roman Catholic Church at the end of time.
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The Red Hat
Ralph McInerny
The author of the Father Dowling Mysteries presents a novel of suspense, humor, and spiritual insight about the Catholic Church rocked by schism, scandal and contested papal elections early in the third millennium.
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The Cypresses Believe in God
Jose Maria Gironella
Considered by many critics to be the greatest novel about the Spanish Civil War, this classic work is an unbiased account of the complicated events, movements and personalities that led up to the war.
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Strangers and Sojourners
Michael O'Brien
An epic novel set in the rugged interior of British Columbia, the first volume of a trilogy which traces the lives of four generations of a family of exiles.
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The Red Horse
Eugenio Corti
Written from the author's own personal experiences as an Italian Freedom Fighter, is a profoundly moving account of the war, those who fought in it on both sides, and the effects the war had on families in the author's hometown in northern Italy.
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The Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton
This edition of Chesterton's most famous novel explicates and enriches the complete text with extensive footnotes, together with an introductory essay on the metaphysical meaning of his profound allegory.
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Eclipse of the Sun
Michael O'Brien
In this fast-paced, reflective novel, (the second in a trilogy following Strangers and Sojourners) Michael O'Brien presents the dramatic tale of a family that finds itself in the path of a totalitarian government.
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Sophia House
Michael O'Brien
Prequel to the best-selling novel Father Elijah, this story revolves around David Schafer, a young Jewish boy hiding in a book shop in Nazi-occupied Poland. Only decades later would he be called Fr. Elijah, chosen by the pope to confront the ultimate evil.
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A Cry of Stone
Michael O'Brien
Loosely based on the real lives of a number of native North Americans, A Cry of Stone is the fictional account of the life of a native artist, Rose Wâbos.
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Plague Journal
Michael O'Brien
Nathaniel Delaney, the editor of a small-town newspaper, is about to face the greatest crisis of his life. His country is sliding into totalinarianism, and his family is scattered as he wages a war of truth against the despotism seeking to silence him.
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Dear & Glorious Physician
Taylor Caldwell
The world-famous novel about St. Luke: man of science, and Gospel writer. "A portrait so moving and so eloquent I doubt it is paralleled elsewhere in literature." – Boston Herald
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The Song of Bernadette
Franz Werfel
Tells the true story surrounding the visions at Lourdes. Werfel, a highly respected anti-Nazi writer from Vienna, became a Jewish refugee who barely escaped death in 1940, and wrote this moving story to fulfill a promise he made to God.
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Joan of Arc
Mark Twain
Very few people know that Mark Twain wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work.
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The Spear
Louis de Wohl
This panoramic novel of the last days of Christ ranges from the palaces of imperial Rome to the strife-torn hills of Judea – where the conflict of love and betrayal, revenge and redemption, reaches a mighty climax in the drama of the Crucifixion.
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Lay Siege to Heaven
Louis de Wohl
The daughter of a prosperous dyer in 14th-century Siena, Catherine never forgot the mystical experience of her extreme youth. But it was a shock to her family when, refusing marriage, she insisted on giving her life totally to God.
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The Perfect Joy of St. Francis
Felix Timmermans
In this classic novel, Felix Timmermans reveals a deep understanding and penetrating interpretation of the man Francis and the ideals that enabled him to move and to shake the whole world.
