"An engrossing tale of obsession, adventure and scientific reasoning." —Betty Ann Kevles, Los Angeles TimesIn the winter of 1938, a fishing boat by chance dragged from the Indian Ocean a fish thought extinct for 70 million years. It was a coelacanth, which thrived concurrently with dinosaurs and pterodactyls—an animal of major importance to those who study the history of vertebrate life.Living Fossil describes the life and habitat of the c...

*** A BBC2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK *** *** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME *** 'A fascinating, beautiful, heartwarming novel. It kept me gripped from the very first chapter' -- BETH O'LEARYIn Second World War Bath, young, naïve wireless engineer Will meets Austrian refugee Elsa Klein: she is sophisticated, witty and worldly, and at last his life seems to make sense . . . until, soon after, the couple's home ...

'A modern Gothic novel unlike any other**, about love and loss echoing through the ages. Sad, sweet, funny and hopeful'** --- Emilia Hart (author of Weyward)From acclaimed author Keith Stuart, author of A Boy Made of Blocks and The Frequency of Us, comes a daring and unique story of heartbreak and hope.A single sentence was all it took to define Cammy's life. They came as her beloved artist aunt was dying, a tee...

'A modern Gothic novel unlike any other**, about love and loss echoing through the ages. Sad, sweet, funny and hopeful'** - Emilia Hart, bestselling author of Weyward and The Sirens'Did your mother ever tell you about the curse?'Spoken by her dying aunt, these were the words that would come to define Cammy's life.As a teenager, Cammy dismissed the warning that the women in her family were doomed to lose th...

'A story of life, love and hope - the perfect antidote to today's world. Phenomenal'CLARE MACKINTOSHThe incredible, life-affirming new novel by the author of the Richard & Judy Book Club Bestseller A Boy Made of Blocks for fans of Matt Haig and Jojo Moyes.Tom, devoted single father to Hannah, is the manager of a tiny local theatre. On each of her birthdays, its colourful cast of part-time actors have staged a fantastical pro...

The faith divide in our country is a wide and treacherous as it has ever been. Christians in this country (and elsewhere) are deeply divided over our shared language, but we are also at war with each other regarding our sacred text, the Bible. It is a "war of interpretations." Our interpretive lens informs our perception of God, who God is, and what God wants.The purpose of this book is to exposit an alternate understanding of God drawn from my friendship with David, a gay man dyin...

What Silence Will Not Bury Genre: Southern Gothic / Historical Fiction Setting: A rural, ridge-top farming community in 1937. In the summer of 1937, the quiet world of Att and Vicary is shattered by the brutal lynching of their friend, Waite Reynolds, a Black farmer on their ridge. After finding Waite's body, Att retreats into a paralyzing guilt and silence. Unable to express his outrage or pain to the world, he instead pours out his broken heart to Vicary, his best friend, his only friend...

Eighty-one years after America witnessed the Scopes trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools, the debate between science and religion continues. In this book scholars from a variety of disciplines—sociology, history, science, and theology—provide new insights into the contemporary dialogue as well as some perspective suggestions for delineating the responsibilities of both the scientific and religious spheres.Why does the tension between science and religion continue?...

WISDEN comes to life as we relive the finest, the strangest and the most dramatic moments of cricketing history in this entertaining portrait of the English game. Take your seat on the boundary as we enjoy some of the most colourful and intriguing English cricket matches in the history of the game, as King George VI takes a hat trick in the grounds of Windsor castle, a cricket-loving vicar escapes death on the high seas, Denis Compton scores 18 centuries in one glorious summer and while a ...

With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury.Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping and fi...

With a new Introduction by David Stuart Davies.‘Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.’In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he penned. Treachery, mutilation and the terrible consequences of infidelity are just some of the themes explored in these stories, along with atm...

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths.This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion that has ende...