Simon Parke

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1997
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Full Series List in Order

An Abbot Peter Mystery

1 - A Vicar, Crucified (May-2013)
2 - A Psychiatrist, Screams (Oct-2013)
3 - A Directors Cut (Jun-2014)
4 - The Indecent Death of a Madam (Sep-2017)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Desert Ascent: Or a Brief History of Eternity

    Abbot Peter has enough on his plate frankly. His monastery of St. James the Less is due for closure. Stuck amid the outer reaches of a large desert nowhere, it wasn't deemed to be scoring very high on its performance indicators. And then there were t...

  • Desert Child: Or Just How Amusing Can a Nightmare Be?

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  • Solitude

    What does solitude mean to you? Albert Einstein once said: ‘I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.’In his latest book Simon Parke, author of The Beautiful Life and One-Minute Mindfulness describ...

  • Another Bloody Retreat

    The monastery of St James the Less is due for closure. It has sat in the Arabian desert for too long, apparently. But Abbot Peter, sent to oversee its demise, isn't so sure. He finds strange life in this sanctuary for the desperate. So St James c...

  • Forsaking the Family

    We all grow up somewhere. No two families are the same, but everyone experiences them in some way. What everyone doesn't do, however, is consider the effect of these experiences on the person they become. This lack of awareness can have significant c...

  • Pippa's Progress

    This is the story of the journey of Pippa, a 21st-century Pilgrim. Simon Parke's witty and insightful modern-day re-telling of 'Pilgrim's Progress' follows the original's premise of a pilgrim's journey to heaven, but this time through the trials and ...

  • A Vicar, Crucified

    An Abbot Peter Mystery - 1

    Abbot Peter has recently swapped his failing leadership of a remote monastery in the Sinai desert for retirement in the bleak and stormy English seaside town of Stormhaven. When the charismatic local vicar is discovered dead â€" crucified, naked, to...

  • A Psychiatrist, Screams

    An Abbot Peter Mystery - 2

    ‘Although seven clowns started the evening alive, only six still breathed by the evening’s end. And while everyone saw the murderer and knew the murderer, no one knew their name.’

    Henry House, an Elizabethan manor, is now occupied by ...



  • A Directors Cut

    An Abbot Peter Mystery - 3

    ‘On stage, the light reveals a chair, on which the lone figure of a middle-aged lady sits. Bathed in creamy light, she gazes heavenwards, mouth open in motionless wonder. Her body pushed forward and her head yanked back, simultaneously, separating ...

  • The Soldier, the Gaoler, the Spy and her Lover

    January 30th 1649. England is not a country that wishes to execute its divinely-appointed king. Yet Charles 1 finds himself shivering on a scaffold in Whitehall, with the axe man by his side . . .In this brilliantly atmospheric novel, Simon Parke exp...

  • The Indecent Death of a Madam

    An Abbot Peter Mystery - 4

    The Stormhaven Etiquette Society, a secretive affair, unafraid to name and shame those who transgressModel Services, the town’s only brothel, a discreet but busy presence in Church StreetBybuckle Asylum, a desolate shell on the seafront that housed...

  • The Secret Testament of Julian

    Julian of Norwich was the first woman in the world to write a book in English, and yet had largely disappeared from view until her rediscovery during the twentieth century.

    A fourteenth century anchoress in Norwich, she lived in a cell for f...

  • Gospel

    First century Palestine is a region glued together by hate. The Roman invaders rule, the Jewish authorities collude while the enraged and desperate plot violent revolt. Pilate lives with his nightmares, Herod makes guilty hay, the balance of power is...

  • A Hearse at Midnight

    'Daffodils freeze and shrubs cry in Stormhaven. They call it 'The Beast from the East' and the temperature's unholy; it crucifies all with cruel nails of ice; a Siberian chill piercing their bones. And there will be a further killing tonight - human,...

  • An Inconvenient Convent

    Is it Stormhaven's best kept secret? The Community of the Holy Fire is a convent by the sea with a leader who has plans. Abbess Hildegard wishes to turn the community into a beacon of 'Greenness' - a prophetic call to the world in the face of terrify...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Simon Parke has published 16 books.

Simon Parke does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, An Inconvenient Convent, was published in October 2022.

The first book by Simon Parke, Desert Ascent: Or a Brief History of Eternity, was published in August 1997.

Yes. Simon Parke has 1 series.
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