Awarded a fellowship at St. Martha's College, Cambridge, Robert Amiss finds the campus torn by controversy over how to spend a large bequest, in the midst of which the leader of one faction, Dame Maud Buckbarrow, turns up dead.

Matricide at St Martha's

Edwards, Ruth Dudley

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Harpercollins

Murder in a Cathedral

Mystery

Robert Amiss, lapsed civil servant, is approached by Lord Papworth, owner of the Wrangler, to step in as business manager for the august journal and do something about its steady drain on his lordship’s finances. The magazine’s editor, Willie Lambie Crump, and his staff are firmly mired in the 1950s, technologically speaking; ideologically, the journal has always been strongly conservative. Prodded by Baroness “Jack” Troutbeck, his rather menacing guardian angel, Amiss takes on the job and soon has his hands full trying to further the journal’s progress toward the latter half of the 20th century without unduly upsetting the staff. When the political editor, Henry Potbury, is found dead under odd circumstances and Crump is murdered, Amiss discovers once again that trying to keep a job can be a lethal occupation.

Publish and Be Murdered (Collins cime)

<p>FIRST BRITISH EDITION. 2000 Collins Crime hardcover, Ruth Dudley Edwards (The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic). Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities. She instantly press-gangs Robert Amiss, her young friend and reluctant accomplice, into becoming conference organizer. - Amazon</p>

The Anglo-Irish Murders

Every summer throughout Northern Ireland, tens of thousands of Protestants parade; wearing bowler hats and collarettes and carrying banners with biblical and historical scenes, they are viewed by outsiders as triumphalist bigots lording it over the minority population. However, to the members of the loyal institutions - Apprentice Boys, Orange Order and Royal Black Preceptory - they are merely commemorating the courage of their forefathers, proudly celebrating hard-won civil and religious freedoms, demonstrating their loyalty to God and the Crown and having an enjoyable day out with their families and friends.During the last few years, organised opposition to parades has led to violent confrontations: hundreds of journalists and cameramen from around the world arrive at flashpoints like Derry, Drumcree and the Ormeau Road in Belfast to record the violence that could lead to civil war. And almost all outsiders blame the loyal institutions for intransigence and insensitivity in marching where they are not wanted.Noted author and historian Ruth Dudley Edwards tells their inside story for the first time. A veteran of dozens of parades - peaceful and violent - she has developed close friendships within the institutions that have given her a unique insight into what their members do and think and stand for, while her Dublin Roman Catholic background provides a critical vantage point from which to assess them.

Faithful Tribe: The Loyal Institutions

History

Europe

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

<p>The first, intimate portrait of the Orange Order. If there is any more controversial body of men (and, with the exception of Ruth Dudley Edwards, who has been admitted to an honorary position in her very own lodge, they are all men) in the British Isles, it is hard to think who they might be. To most outsiders, grown men parading in bowler hats, white gloves, coloured sashes or collarettes, rolled umbrellas and banners showing scenes from the Old Testament or from a war that ended three centuries ago, are anachronistic, silly and provocative; to their enemies they are triumphalist bigots; to most of their members, the lodges' parades are a commemoration of the courage of their forefathers, a proud declaration of their belief in civil and religious freedom, a demonstration of their Britishness, a chance to catch up with old friends and a jolly day out. Ruth Dudley Edwards is an unlikely Joan of Arc for the Orangemen, but that she is; a trusted and liked sympathizer, a woman, a Catholic from southern Ireland; one who sees them as possibly rather bumptious and certainly their own worst enemy, endlessly outpaced by the nimble Republicans in terms of PR (which the Orangemen scorn to meddle with). She has written a fond but not uncritical, indeed rather exasperated, portrait of this tribe, with lashings of insider detail and revelation which no one else could hope to obtain.</p>

The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions

Religion & Spirituality

Matricide at St. Martha's (Thorndike Large Print General Series)

Thorndike Pr

HarperCollins Canada, Limited

Carnage on the Committee

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-01-14 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins Latest in Ruth Dudley Edwards's hilarious crime series lampooning the British Establishment: 'I fear it will make you laugh out loud on public transport' Evening Standard.When the chairperson of the prestigious Knapper-Warburton Literary Prize dies in suspicious circumstances. Robert Amiss (the token sane member of the judging panel) wastes no time in summoning Baroness Jack Troutbeck to step into the breach.Speculation that a killer may be targeting the judges worries the baroness not in the slightest - its the prospect of immersing herself in modern literature that fills her with dread.But noblesse must oblige. even when it means joining the ranks of the superciliati sitting in judgement of the literati.With the baroness at the helm. the judges resume the task of whittling away at the sho...

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

The Omagh bomb was the worst massacre in Northern Ireland's modern history—yet from it came a most extraordinary tale of human resilience, as families of murdered people channeled their grief into action. As the bombers congratulated themselves on escaping justice, the families determined on a civil case against them and their organization. In Omagh, on Saturday, August 15, 1998, a massive bomb placed by the so-called Real IRA murdered five men, fourteen women, nine children, and a pair of unborn twins. Although the police believed they knew the identities of the killers, there was insufficient evidence to bring charges. Taking as their motto "For evil to triumph, all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing," families of ten of the dead decided to pursue these men through the civil courts, where the burden of proof is lower. This is the remarkable account of how these families—who had no knowledge of the law and no money, and included a cleaner, a mechanic, and a bookie—became internationally recognized, formidable campaigners and surmounted countless daunting obstacles to win a famous victory. How these mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers turned themselves into the scourge of the Real IRA is not just an astonishing story in itself. It is also a universal story of David challenging Goliath, as well as an inspiration to ordinary people anywhere devastated by terrorism.

Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice

Vintage, UK

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Matricide at St Martha's

Murder in a Cathedral

Publish and Be Murdered (Collins cime)

The Anglo-Irish Murders

Faithful Tribe: The Loyal Institutions

The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions

Matricide at St. Martha's (Thorndike Large Print General Series)

The Anglo-Irish Murders

Carnage on the Committee

Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice