A collection of stories written over a number of years. They range from comic to darkly psychological, from a few hundred words to several thousands, from rural Cornwall to the Solomon Islands. some will make you laugh.
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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Ian Searle
Two years after the end of the war, the people of the Sussex village of Hartsfoot are still coming to terms with peace. When newcomer Duncan Frome sets up in business, he is viewed with suspicion, but it is more established residents whose secret activities lead to murder. Inspector Edward Blundell, ("The Bear"), investigates.
1953 Two women move into the Old Mill in the village of Belham. Why are they using assumed names? When one of them is brutally murdered, and the other disappears, DI Blundell and his team are drawn into extensive enquiries. For the young DC Wendy Brown it becomes an exciting experience which could help her climb the promotion ladder.
Mary Field and her husband Greg are about to leave Australia for a lengthy holiday in Europe, when Mary learns she has inherited a property in a small village in the south of England belonging to a distant relative Judge Lucien Malpas. On arriving in England they discover that the Judge has been murdered, tracking down the killer brings them closer to the community and bounds them to lasting friendships but for Mary the experience is both challenging and life-changing.
The suspicious death of a newly appointed headmaster at a private boarding school in Sussex leads to the discovery of fraud which threatens the very future of Greenacres School. Set during the summer of 1960 the action is seen through the eyes of a young graduate who has taken a new job at the school the chief investigating officer, DCI Blundell.
It's not every day that your father presents you with a tumbledown building and the funds to convert it into a hotel. It's not every day, either, that you learn his financial empire was built on theft. In this warm romantic story young entrepreneur Tom Hammond takes on the challenge but the struggle to survive and succeed in a small town community threatens to defeat him when major setbacks arise from his dysfunctional family. The experience affects his health and forces fundamental changes in his personal relationship.
Ralph Cobden's refusal at the age of eighteen to take over the family farm has disastrous effects and leaves him with a burden of guilt. By his early thirties he suffers a series of losses that destroy his mental well-being. Grief results in eccentric and potentially self-destructive behaviour. Professional help and the loving support of close friends are needed for him to survive. The result is an uplifting story of triumph over grief.
After the death of his wife Louise, Frank Whitaker faces many changes in his life, coping with his loss is one, but now the challenge of finding his own true identify becomes even more important.
Jim Grainger has spent the last 25 years carefully distancing himself from his past, burying memories of his school days under the weight of work, marriage, and routine. So when an invitation to his old school’s reunion arrives, he dismisses it without a second thought. But his wife, Gemma, intrigued by this part of his life he never speaks about, encourages—then insists—that they attend. Reluctantly, Jim gives in, unaware that this night will unearth secrets that have been hidden for decades.
Art and the Experience of the Divine
Anne Searle Bent; Ian S Markham
Wipf Stock Publishers
2024
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How do people find faith? For centuries the focus of the church has been on providing arguments that might persuade a person rationally that faith is plausible. This book invites people to find faith through experience. By taking a great work of art, the reader is invited to meditate and pray through that art to God. Faith is primarily an experience of the heart, not an argument that appeals to the head. The book opens with a framing case for the centrality of the visual arts as a vehicle to experience the divine. Engaging with the literature, a distinctive case is made for a "spiritual theory of art," according to which art makes spiritual reality present to the seeker. Then there are twenty-two devotional reflections on art that show how properly reading a painting or a drawing can open up fresh ways of thinking about the divine that are compelling and powerful. Thus, we are guided towards seeing truly great art as a focus for prayer and meditation.
From the highly acclaimed Sunday Times bestselling author Ian Knight, Warriors in Scarlet is an authoritative new history of Queen Victoria�s army.
From the highly acclaimed Sunday Times bestselling author Ian Knight, Warriors in Scarlet is an authoritative new history of Queen Victoriaâ??s army.
WRITER IAN EDGINTONARTIST D'ISRAELILETTERER D'ISRAELITHE CHANCES OF ANYTHING COMING FROM MARS ARE A MILLION TO ONE, HE SAID.But still they came. In the last years of the Nineteenth Century England fell to the Martians. The population was devastated, but the Martians were wiped out and Britain survived. A decade later, the British Empire has rebuilt and expanded its influence using the alien technology that brought it to its knees. Captain Robert Autumn and his manservant, Archie Currie, investigate the disappearance of Archie’s niece and uncover the sinister conspiracy behind the empire’s power!This volume collects Ian Edginton’s and D’Israeli’s critically acclaimed comic book adaption of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds and the sequel, Scarlet Traces.Stories include:War of the WorldsScarlet Traces
Thanks to the technology left behind by the Martians and salvaged by the survivors, the British Empire has become a dominating world power once again, and has taken the fight back to the Martians! But an aging Robert Autumn knows there is more to this war than the propganda suggests. He sends journalist Charlotte Hemmingway undercover to Mars in order to discover the truth. What she discovers there is truly earth-shattering... This volume contains the very latest series of Scarlet Traces, which has never been collected before.
“There’s the scarlet thread of murder… and our duty is to unravel it!” A man’s body is found in a bloodstained room - without a scratch on it. A name has been partly written in blood on the wall. A woman’s wedding ring is found... The sensational story Sherlock Holmes traces, from a dingy London tenement to the plains of the American Wild West, provides a test case in his “science of deduction” - but the greatest enigma to his new friend, Dr. Watson, is Sherlock Holmes himself. This atmospheric graphic novel adaptation by Ian Edginton and I.N.J. Culbard - the team behind this series' acclaimed The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of the Four and The Valley of Fear - will keep you guessing.
Sealed With A Kiss My fate was sealed as soon as I saw her, but we had a strange case to solve first, involving a man, a woman and a dog and a gruesome murder. It's not often that an investigation gets embroiled in the world of Formula One and spans the globe but as the client was paying all expenses who am I to argue? The one thing that really bugged me was why the prime suspect was discovered outside the locked hotel room door. Very strange. It was up to me to investigate and find out whodunnit?
A Study in Scarlet - Gift Edition: A Sherlock Holmes novel
Ian Fox; Arthur Conan Doyle
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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New South African Review 4
Clare Ballard; Ahmed Bawa; Claassens Aninka; John G.I. Clarke; Cornelissen Scarlett; Miriam Di Paola; Gottschalk Keith; Greenstein Ran; Kenny Bridget; Khadiagala Gilbert M.; Ian Macun; Mangcu Xolela; Zethu Matebeni; Boitumelo Matlala; Dale T McKinley; Mopeli L. Moshoeshoe; Mosoetsa Sarah; Naidoo Prishani; Pillay Devan; Pons-Vignon Nicolas; Prew Martin; Southall Roger; Justin van der Merwe; Wakeford Jeremy
Wits University Press
2014
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The death of Nelson Mandela on 5 December 2013 was in a sense a wake-up call for South Africans, and a time to reflect on what has been achieved since `those magnificent days in late April 1994’ (as the editors of this volume put it) `when South Africans of all colours voted for the first time in a democratic election’. In a time of recall and reflection it is important to take account, not only of the dramatic events that grip the headlines, but also of other signposts that indicate the shape and characteristics of a society. The New South African Review looks, every year, at some of these signposts, and the essays in this fourth volume of the series again examine and analyse a broad spectrum of issues affecting the country. They tackle topics as diverse as the state of organised labour; food retailing; electricity generation; access to information; civil courage; the school system; and – looking outside the country to its place in the world – South Africa’s relationships with north-east Asia, with Israel and with its neighbours in the southern African region. Taken together, these essays give a multidimensional perspective on South Africa’s democracy as it turns twenty, and will be of interest to general readers while being particularly useful to students and researchers.