Unfaded Garland
Unfaded Garland

Author: Mary Burton

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2001-03-03

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9780860122777

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This "commonplace book developed out of a painter's experience of light and silence, timelessness and infinity" is illustrated with nineteen of the author's watercolors expressing the central theme of the meditations. These are grouped into themes--painting and prayer; infinity; enlightenment; darkness; stillness and listening; unseen light and so on--with well-chosen quotations linked by Mary Burton's texts. A book that can be read in an hour and give pleasure for years.

The Tesseract
The Tesseract

Author: Alex Garland

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-07-05

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1101657634

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An intricately woven, suspenseful novel of psychological and political intrigue, The Tesseract follows the interlocking fates of three sets of characters in the Philippines: gangsters in a chase through the streets of Manila; a middle-class mother putting her children to bed in the suburbs and remembering her first love; and a couple of street kids and the wealthy psychiatrist who is studying their dreams. Alex Garland demonstrates the range of his extraordinary talents as a novelist in this national bestseller, a Chinese puzzle of a novel about three intersecting sets of characters in the Philippines.

Nineteen Seventy-seven
Nineteen Seventy-seven

Author: David Peace

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 2010-03-16

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0307741656

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David Peace's acclaimed Red Riding Quartet continues with this exhilarating follow-up to Nineteen Seventy-Four. It's summer in Leeds and the city is anxiously awaiting the Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Detective Bob Fraser and Jack Whitehead, a reporter at the Post, however, have other things on their minds-mainly the fact that someone is murdering prostitutes. The killer is quickly dubbed the “Yorkshire Ripper” and each man, on their own, works tirelessly to catch him. But their investigations turn grisly as they each engage in affairs with the prostitutes they are supposedly protecting. As the summer progresses, the killings accelerate and it seems as if Fraser and Whitehead are the only men who suspect or care that there may be more than one killer at large.

Nineteen Seventy-four
Nineteen Seventy-four

Author: David Peace

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 2010-03-16

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0307741648

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The first installment of David Peace's electrifying Red Riding Quartet vividly brings to life a gritty, dangerous working class city tormented by a series of brutal murders. Nineteen Seventy-Four follows Eddie Dunford, the newly minted crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Post. His first story is about Clare Kemplay, a young girl recently found brutally murdered. While the police department and other crime reporters at the newspaper believe it's an isolated incident, Eddie finds a pattern between Clare's disappearance and those of other girls from a few years earlier. Despite his better judgment, and against the advice of others, he starts to dig deep. What he finds is a nightmare of corruption, violence, blackmail, and obsession that ultimately leads to a shocking, explosive conclusion.

Routledge Revivals: Medieval Italy (2004)
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Italy (2004)

Author: Christopher Kleinhenz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 1648

ISBN-13: 135166445X

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First published in 2004, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia provides an introduction to the many and diverse facets of Italian civilization from the late Roman empire to the end of the fourteenth century. It presents in two volumes articles on a wide range of topics including history, literature, art, music, urban development, commerce and economics, social and political institutions, religion and hagiography, philosophy and science. This illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource and will be of key interest not only to students and scholars of history but also to those studying a range of subjects, as well as the general reader.

Routledge Revivals: Key Figures in Medieval Europe (2006)
Routledge Revivals: Key Figures in Medieval Europe (2006)

Author: Richard Emmerson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 778

ISBN-13: 1351681680

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First published in 2006, Key Figures in Medieval Europe, brings together in one volume the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500. Gathered from the biographical entries from the series, Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, these A-Z biographical entries discuss the lives of over 575 individuals who have had a historical impact in such areas as politics, religion, and the arts. It includes individuals from places such as medieval England, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, and Scandinavia, as well as those from the Jewish and Islamic worlds. In one convenient volume, students, scholars, and interested readers will find the biographies of the people whose actions, beliefs, creations, and writings shaped the Middle Ages, one of the most fascinating periods of world history.