Colin: 2238 books

Dave wins the regular, monthly drinking contest in the pub for the first time, and is then considered among the elite of the hardened drinkers. Barely able to stand up, he meets Iggy, a former winner of the contest, and they go on to a military fancy dress party where there is no 'last orders'. Eventually...

Dez is a social alien living on the outside of convention, and has no care for the world about him. Silas lives rigidly within the system and regards it his duty to give assistance to those who have fallen foul of convention, generally through no fault of their own. They only ever meet once, when...

A routine ride home on the underground metro provided Wilfred Truebody with both dreams and nightmares. He was a different man when he got off at his usual stop, and expecting to get home for tea.

All’indomani della caduta del colosso sovietico e dell’indipendenza delle cinque repubbliche centro-asiatiche, Colin Thubron intraprende un lungo viaggio tra le rovine ancora fumanti di uno dei più grandi imperi dell’era moderna. Seguendo l’antichissima Via della seta, calcando le orme di...

Un paese a lungo considerato oscuro e inquietante, un passato fitto di contraddizioni: primo fra gli scrittori di viaggio occidentali, Colin Thubron ha esplorato alla vigilia dei tumulti di Tian’anmen questo territorio immenso, parlando con la gente comune e percorrendo senza un itinerario preciso...

La storia millenaria, e in gran parte consegnata alla leggenda, della Via della Seta continua ad affascinare segretamente la modernità. In un viaggio tra misticismo, conflittualità, mistero, Colin Thubron ripercorre le strade che per secoli hanno dato vita a una «globalizzazione», arcaica quanto...

Fifty-two years ago [in 1966] Archbishop Michael Ramsey of Canterbury visited Rome and agreed with the Pope to inaugurate an Anglican-Roman Catholic theological dialogue. Three phases of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) resulted and continue to this day. ARCIC I agreed...

Dan Sherman had to take early retirement through bereavement. He started to have lucid dreams about a tall man who was beckoning him go to a certain place. He soon realized that this wasn't an everyday event. It was to be the start of a once in a lifetime chance to be a Space Guardian. How will he cope with powerful entities who will try to destroy him at turn?

An experimental brain, held in an underground facility, one day electrocutes a guard close by. But the brain wakes the fallen body up as the new owner. But that's not all; with but a gesture of the hand, it switches bodies with another person, even taking the place of the target's mind....

Among the Gospels, John's is unique. It has a structure with long conversations and extended debates, and much of its content is not found elsewhere. Jesus' relationship to the Father and his teaching on the Holy Spirit are given special prominence. Ultimately, faith, believing in Jesus, is at the...

Original tales by remarkable writers Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim...

Alan Davies, a naive and vulnerable teenager, is tricked into committing an immoral and abhorrent crime. Riven by guilt and remorse he runs, but he can’t outrun his conscience. For twenty years, Alan tries to silence his conscience with alcohol and drugs as fate and chance propel him in to...

“If an injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.” A chance encounter and an overheard conversation was all it took to undo the psychotherapy that had buried David’s bitterness and suppressed his desire for revenge. Little by little,...

Tommy Lasorda believed that winning wasn't about being the best, but about believing you are the best and that philosophy runs throughout Tommy Lasorda: My Way. Author Colin Gunderson takes readers through Lasorda's days as a player and the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, including their two World...