Content to spend his time tending his garden and writing successful whodunits, former police inspector John Reynolds comes out of retirement to investigate a headless corpse, found in a pigsty on Hanscastle Farm.

Pearls Before Swine

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Clayton, Mary

Mystery

St Martins Pr

The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 26)

This book provides an edition, with a facing translation and detailed commentary, of the three apocryphal gospels of Mary written in Old English. The gospels, which deal with Mary's birth, childhood, death and assumption, are found in manuscripts in Oxford and Cambridge, but have never been treated as a group before, and have been almost totally neglected by English scholars. An extensive introduction covers the origins and development of the apocrypha and their influence in Anglo-Saxon England.

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

This book presents the two Old English versions of the colourful legend of the virgin martyr, St Margaret of Antioch, who became one of the most widely celebrated of medieval saints and the patron saint of childbirth. The two extant vernacular lives are published together, edited with a facing translation and commentary and introduced by extensive coverage of background sources, the state of the manuscripts, their language and the growth of the cult of St Margaret in Anglo-Saxon England. In addition there are printed fragments of a third version of the life and a Latin text from an Anglo-Saxon manuscript. The approach allows the reader to trace the early reception history of the texts and the way they developed over time, showing their significance as products of late Anglo-Saxon culture.

The Old English Lives of St. Margaret (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 9)

Magennis, Hugh

The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 2)

The cult of the Virgin Mary is associated by most medievalists with the twelfth and succeeding centuries. This book, however, provides a wide-ranging exploration of the cult in England from c. 700 to the Conquest. Interest in and devotion to Mary flourished in the late seventh and eighth centuries and, especially, in the period of the Benedictine reform from the mid-tenth century onwards. In this latter period Mary, as patron saint of almost all of the reformed houses, was the most important saint of the monastic movement. Dr Clayton describes and illustrates the development of Marian devotion and doctrine from the early church to the Carolingians, by discussing Anglo-Saxon feasts of the Virgin, liturgical texts, prayers, monastic dedications, art and vernacular poetry and prose. This is a topic which has never before been examined in any detail but has significant bearing on the history of church liturgy and Anglo-Saxon literature. The book will appeal to Anglo-Saxonists with a special interest in literature, art history and theology.

This book presents the two Old English versions of the colourful legend of the virgin martyr, St Margaret of Antioch, who became one of the most widely celebrated of medieval saints and the patron saint of childbirth. The two extant vernacular lives are published together, edited with a facing translation and commentary and introduced by extensive coverage of background sources, the state of the manuscripts, their language and the growth of the cult of St Margaret in Anglo-Saxon England. In addition there are printed fragments of a third version of the life and a Latin text from an Anglo-Saxon manuscript. The approach allows the reader to trace the early reception history of the texts and the way they developed over time, showing their significance as products of late Anglo-Saxon culture.

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The Prodigal's Return (A Cornish Whodunnit: Featuring Ex-Inspector John Reynolds)

Headline Book Publishing

The Prodigal's Return

Magna Large Print Books

A series of strange happenings threaten the idyllic existence of a quiet Cornish village. The inhabitants are convinced that ex-Inspector John Reynolds is to blame - his mystery novels must have inspired a copy cat criminal.

The Word Is Death

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Pearls Before Swine

The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 26)

The Old English Lives of St. Margaret (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 9)

The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 2)

The Old English Lives of St. Margaret (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 9)

The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 2)

The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 26)

The Prodigal's Return (A Cornish Whodunnit: Featuring Ex-Inspector John Reynolds)

The Prodigal's Return

The Word Is Death