Books with author Lawrence Heath

This is the tale of the ghost in the machine. The ghost is the troubled spirit of Margaret that has haunted the drowned city of Wickwich for over 700 years; the machine is a computer. The ghost becomes attached to Jan when she discovers Margaret's ring. The computer belongs to Hal, Jan's cousin.According to ancient legend the drowned city rises up from beneath the waves in spectral form on the anniversary of its being washed away by a violent storm in 1286. When Jan and Hal embark upon realising this legend in the virtual world of computers they unwittingly trigger a chain of supernatural twists and turns that lead inexorably to the culmination of a 700-year-old curse – with fearful consequences.

D. H. Lawrence's 1915 novel "The Rainbow" is the story of three generations of the Brangwens family. While tame by today's standards, "The Rainbow", for its frank treatment of human sexuality, caused Lawence to be prosecuted on an obscenity charge in England when it was first published. Through richly personal characterizations, "The Rainbow" deals profoundly with the very nature of human relations as it explores the sexuality of Ursula Brangwen and her mother, Anna Brangwen.

Lawrence wrote ‘The Plumed Serpent’ between 1923 to 1924 a time when he was in ill health, living in Mexico and becoming dependent on his wife Frieda.The plot revolves around a movement to replace the Christian God with the old pre-conquest gods, such as Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent of the title. Kate Leslie, an Irish woman, gets caught up in the movement and marries one of the leaders but to the very end of the novel is ambivalent towards the aims of the movement. Lawrence uses the story to propound his own views about religion and the need for woman to sublimate herself before man and the need for a new political order. This all seems deliciously old-fashioned and misplaced now but we forgive Lawrence because of the beauty of his writing and his ability to get beneath the surface of the country he describes.