Goupi Red Hands is a bucolic loner, slow, shrewd, self-sufficient, and devoted to his existence in harmony with his rural life. He despises his family's secretive, small-minded, mean lives in deepest 1930s agricultural France. When a close relative arrives from Paris to marry a cousin, another family member is murdered. Goupi investigates, and uncovers the murderer in a dramatic denouement. This is a Gallic romp, amusing, and filled with unusual detail on French country life.

Goupi Red Hands

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Véry, Pierre

Mystery

Troubador Pub

Pierre Véry's gripping mystery The Murder of Father Christmas involves a double murder and a double theft of precious stones from a church in a small town in Lorraine in the midst of a snowstorm around Christmas time. Despite the absence from the story of the peasant-sleuth Goupi Red Hands, the hero of Alan Grimes's previous translations of Véry, a racy and highly readable version is provided here of a fine example of the French roman noir.

The Murder of Father Christmas

Literature & Fiction

The Jesus Secret

Og, Aim

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Theology

Believe And Behold It Is!

Society has always been threatened by those who presume to know the truth for us all. This threat has never been more keenly felt than it is today. After considering both religious belief and atheism, Jews, Myth and History encourages a quest for answers and discourages the belief that any of us possesses the whole truth. With clarity, information and deep probing it leads us towards increased awareness and tolerance, and towards finding our own path through the minefield of competing claims.   In this book, Alan Silver takes a broad look at Jewish origins, belief and practice. He considers the role of myth and history in producing the Bible’s epic story of the Jewish people, and compares this with what the flood of scholarship since the Enlightenment has revealed. He explains that the Bible is not, and was never intended to be, a history book and that reading it correctly means that it still can speak to us in the twenty-first century.

Jews, Myth and History: A Critical Exploration of Contemporary Jewish Belief and Its Origins

History

Silver, Alan

World

This book pushes literary theory into unexplored grounds to articulate the modern and contemporary condition of interstitiality through an innovative discussion of literary and philosophical underpinnings and interpretation of works by Calvino, Caproni, Sereni and Svevo. It will appeal to Italianists and anyone studying Italian literature.

Interstitial Writing: Calvino, Caproni, Sereni And Svevo

Bartoloni, Paolo

History & Criticism

<p>This is the first time that the personal letters and writings of Italian Novelist Italo Svevo have been brought together into one volume. These writings cover the period 1901- 1926 during which Svevo stayed in London. Under his real name of Ettore Schmitz, he managed a factory in Charlton that manufactured underwater paints for the Royal Navy. Svevo was perpetually surprised by England, which he admired and criticised in equal measure. His letters to his wife chronicle his day to day life in Charlton. The writings are intriguing because they reveal a different side of the novelist and allow a glimpse of how his English experiences filtered through into his fiction writing!</p>

This England Is So Different: Italo Svevo's London Writings

Biographies & Memoirs

Gatt-Rutter, John

Moloney, Brian

Arts & Literature

A Few Bites Of The Lemon

Kemp, Charles

Contemporary

What made a young Sardinian woman in the nineteenth century think that she could become a famous writer, especially considering the time and her position, her gender and lack of education? Yet Grazia Deledda achieved such status in the literary world that publishers in Italy vied for her fiction. Nearly seventy years after her death, her novels continue to be reprinted and translated, and critical appreciation of her work continues to grow. This - the first full length biography of Deledda in English for an adult audience - is the story of a woman who overcame obstacles that would discourage most people, and went on to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. The book charts her life and work from her childhood in Sardinia to her death in Rome.

Grazia Deledda: A Legendary Life (Troubador Italian Studies)

King, Martha

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