Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death

• Author : James Runcie
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release : 10 May 2012

Now a major, prime-time six-part series Grantchester for ITV Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester, is a thirty-two year old bachelor. Sidney is an unconventional clergyman and can go where the police cannot. Together with his roguish friend Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor, a scandalous jewellery theft at a New Year's Eve dinner party, the unexplained death of a well-known jazz promoter and a shocking art forgery, the disclosure of which puts

• Author : James Runcie
• Publisher : Isis Large Print Books
• Release : 01 November 2013

Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester, is a 32-year-old bachelor. Tall, with eyes the colour of hazelnuts, he is both an unconventional clergyman and a reluctant detective. Working in association with his friend, Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney is able to go where the Police cannot, eliciting surprise revelations and confessions from his parishioners; whether it involves the apparent suicide of a local solicitor, a scandalous jewellery theft at a New Year¡s Eve dinner party, or the unexplained death of

• Author : James Runcie
• Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
• Release : 22 March 2016

To be a major, prime-time six-part series Grantchester for PBS.

• Author : James Runcie
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Release : 10 June 2014

While wrestling with the problem of evil and contemplating the nature of love, clerical detective Canon Sidney Chambers attempts to solve four different mysteries, which involve a serial killer, the disappearance of a famous painting, an "accidental" drowning and the kidnapping of a newborn baby. Original. 20,000 first printing.

• Author : James Runcie
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Release : 19 May 2015

Soon to be released as a major six-part television series for ITV, Grantchester.

• Author : James Runcie
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 07 May 2019

The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves, and losses of young Sidney Chambers in postwar London. It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war. Returning to London seven years later, Sidney has gained a Military Cross and lost his best friend on the battlefields of

• Author : James Runcie
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 02 June 2016

Grantchester Mysteries 5 The eagerly anticipated fifth instalment in The Grantchester Mysteries series, now a major ITV drama Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is beginning to think that the life of a full-time priest (and part-time detective) is not easy. So when a bewitching divorcee in a mink coat interrupts Sidney's family lunch asking him to help locate her missing son, he hopes it will be an open and shut case. The last thing he expects is to be dragged into the mysterious

• Author : James Runcie
• Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
• Release : 23 May 2017

The sixth book in the James Runcie's much-loved series, which has been adapted for Masterpiece's Grantchester starring James Norton, sees full-time priest, part-time detective Sidney Chambers plunged back into sleuthing when he discovers a body in a bluebell wood. It is May 1971 and the Cambridgeshire countryside is bursting into summer. Attending to his paternal duties, Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is walking in the woods with his daughter Anna and their aging Labrador, Byron, when they stumble upon a body. Beside the

• Author : James Runcie
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Release : 06 July 2021

The complete collection of the beloved Grantchester Mysteries series--the inspiration for the PBS Masterpiece TV Show starring James Norton. After fighting in World War II and hearing the call to the priesthood, Sidney Chambers begins his career as a full-time priest and part-time detective in the English countryside in 1953. Over the course of the two decades and six books that follow, he finds himself investigating all life's mysteries--from robberies and murders to the larger questions of the meaning of life

• Author : Parker Bilal,Conor Fitzgerald,Thomas Mogford,James Runcie,Anne Zouroudi
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 11 April 2013

From Obsession and Payback to Secrets and Lies, Deception and Bad Judgement, these thrilling tales will shock and surprise you with their cunning. Short Sentence was launched in 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing, in association with the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook. Following a short story written by one of Bloomsbury's brilliant crime authors, competitors were challenged to take up the same theme and write of a dastardly deed using 1000 words or less. This is Bloomsbury's collection of the winning entries in parallel

• Author : James Runcie
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release : 30 July 2021

The second in The Grantchester Mysteries series - six detective novels spanning thirty years of British history

• Author : David Dickinson
• Publisher : ISD LLC
• Release : 30 January 2020

No story can guarantee being able to do this. Yet novelists can tell stories that make us think about what we believe about God and why. Despite repeated predictions of the death of the novel, thousands of works of fiction are published and read in Britain each year. Although Western society is less religiously observant than it was, many 21st-century novelists persist in pursuing theological, religious and spiritual themes. Make-Believe seeks to explain why. With chapters offering analyses of novels

• Author : Judith Maltby,Alison Shell
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 27 June 2019

What do the novelists Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte M. Yonge, Rose Macaulay, Dorothy L. Sayers, Barbara Pym, Iris Murdoch and P.D. James all have in common? These women, and others, were inspired to write fiction through their relationship with the Church of England. This field-defining collection of essays explores Anglicanism through their fiction and their fiction through their Anglicanism. These essays, by a set of distinguished contributors, cover a range of literary genres, from life-writing and whodunnits through social comedy,

• Author : James Boyce
• Publisher : SPCK
• Release : 21 April 2016

This highly readable book explains the scope and detail of the newly revised Guidelines for the professional conduct of the clergy, which shape and define how clergy should act and behave. The book brings together a number of experts in the field, who draw on the Ordinal (as the basis of the Guidelines), writing engagingly on key elements in the life of clergy today. Paula Gooder wrestles with the exhilaratingly tricky question, ‘What would Jesus do?’ John Pritchard responds with

• Author : James Runcie
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 04 May 2017

The sixth book in the James Runcie's much-loved series, adapted for ITV's Grantchester which stars James Norton as Sidney Chambers. Perfect for fans of M. C. Beaton. It is May 1971 and the Cambridgeshire countryside is bursting into summer. Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is walking in a bluebell wood with his daughter Anna and their ageing Labrador Byron when they stumble upon a body. Plunged into another murder investigation, Sidney discovers a world of hippies and psychedelic plants, where permissive behaviour seems