Campion: 59 books

Book cover of Escape from Bellevue

Escape from Bellevue

A Memoir of Rock 'n' Roll, Recovery, and Redemption

by Christopher John Campion
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009

Read Christopher John Campion's posts on the Penguin Blog. Indie rock raconteur Chris Campion-one of the few patients ever to escape from Bellevue's locked ward-recalls his band's tumultuous ride, his plummet into addiction, and the strange road back to sobriety Chronicling more than...
Book cover of The House of Second Chances
by Esther Campion
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019

Can a house heal heartache? From coastal Australia to the rugged beauty of Ireland, an enchanting novel of starting over, in the tradition of Maeve Binchy and Monica McInerney Their grandmother's stone cottage was always a welcome retreat in the childhood summers of Ellen and Aidan O'Shea**.**...
Book cover of The King's Mistress
by Emma Campion
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010

History has not been kind to Alice Perrers, the notorious mistress of King Edward III. Scholars and contemporaries alike have deemed her a manipulative woman who used her great beauty and sensuality to take advantage of an aging and increasingly senile king. But who was the woman behind the scandal?...
Book cover of El Dorado
by Peter Campion
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

In El Dorado, Peter Campion explores what it feels like to live in America right now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Splicing cell-phone chatter with translations of ancient poems, jump-cutting from traditional to invented forms, and turning his high-res lens on everything from box...
Book cover of Astrology and Cosmology in the World’s Religions
by Nicholas Campion
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012

When you think of astrology, you may think of the horoscope section in your local paper, or of Nancy Reagan's consultations with an astrologer in the White House in the 1980s. Yet almost every religion uses some form of astrology: some way of thinking about the sun, moon, stars, and planets and how...
Book cover of Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West

Astrology and Popular Religion in the Modern West

Prophecy, Cosmology and the New Age Movement

by Nicholas Campion
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

This book explores an area of contemporary religion, spirituality and popular culture which has not so far been investigated in depth, the phenomenon of astrology in the modern west. Locating modern astrology historically and sociologically in its religious, New Age and millenarian contexts, Nicholas...
Book cover of Leaving Ocean Road
by Esther Campion
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

From coastal Australia to Santorini and Ireland, a slice of warm, character-driven fiction in the tradition of Maeve Binchy and Monica McInerney Twenty years ago, Ellen O'Shea left her beloved Ireland to make a new life in Australia. Now, living in a small coastal town and struggling to cope...
Book cover of Wet Medicine Dreams
by Kim Campion
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013

“Wet Medicine Dreams” is Kim Campion’s second collection of short stories about sex, violence, aliens, and personal and planetary growth. There’s a lot of westerns in this one. Inside you’ll find a lonely prospector who falls in love with an alien way out in the woods one night, a young...
Book cover of A Triple Knot

A Triple Knot

A Novel

by Emma Campion
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014

The critically acclaimed author of The King's Mistress brings another fascinating woman from history to life in an enthralling story of political intrigue, personal tragedy, and illicit love. Joan of Kent, renowned beauty and cousin to King Edward III, is destined for a politically strategic...
Book cover of Cowboy Wild
by David Campion
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012

Love it or hate it, the Calgary Stampede is a place where myth, history and spectacle collide. 100 years after an American vaudeville cowboy first dreamed it up, the Stampede remains an unrivalled homage to the West. Cowboy Wild was more than a decade in the making. Photographer David Campion...
Book cover of Walking on the Moon

Walking on the Moon

The Untold Story of the Police and the Rise of New Wave Rock

by Chris Campion
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010

An unflinching look at the rise of one of the most recognizable names in pop music -The Police The Police have sold more than 50 million albums, made Rolling Stone's Greatest Artists of All Time list, and finished a triumphant world reunion tour in 2008. Now British journalist Chris...
Book cover of With the World's Great Travellers I
by Charles Morris, Oliver H. G. Leigh, Harriet Martineau
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016

This book contains multiple stories about travelling from the world's greatest travellers: New Dependencies of the United States (OLIVER H. G. LEIGH) Winter and Summer in New England (HARRIET MARTINEAU) Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands (CHARLES MORRIS) From New York to Washington in 1866 (HENRY...
Book cover of The New Age in the Modern West

The New Age in the Modern West

Counterculture, Utopia and Prophecy from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day

by Dr Nicholas Campion
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

New Age culture is generally regarded as a modern manifestation of Western millenarianism - a concept built around the expectation of an imminent historical crisis followed by the inauguration of a golden age which occupies a key place in the history of Western ideas. The New Age in the Modern West...
Book cover of Murder on the Mediterranean
by Alexander Campion
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

Escaping the demands of Paris police work, Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier embarks on a well-deserved Mediterranean cruise. But wherever the renowned inspector goes, murder is sure to be close on the horizon. . . On the azure waters off the coasts of Corsica and Sardinia, what could be more...
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