From St Fillan of Munster, patron saint of the mentally ill, to Santa Lucia, who tore out her eyes to dismiss the lascivious attentions of her would-be husband, here are nearly 200 classic stories of the saints of Christian legend.

Lives of the Improbable Saints

Humor & Entertainment

Richard Coles

Ted Harrison

Humor

Darton,Longman & Todd

From St Edith of Wilton, who beat up the Devil, to St Eutychius of Phrygia, who fell asleep and dropped from a window ledge while listening to a sermon of the Apostle Paul, only to be raised from the dead, here are 180 astonishing stories of the saints of Christian legend.

Legends of the Improbable Saints

History

World

Darton, Longman, and Todd

Ever fallen down a rabbit hole?\nEver got lost chasing a fact, a hunch or a curious piece of cultural ephemera?\nThen the Rabbit Hole Detectives - Richard Coles, Cat Jarman and Charles Spencer - are here to do the burrowing for you.\nWhy were eight WWII Hurricane fighter planes buried in Ukraine? What have chimpanzees to do with the invention of toilet paper? 
How many dynamite sticks should not be used to blow up a whale? Which ancient civilisation liked a short tongue and a shaved head?\nJoin the three intrepid explorers as they investigate and elucidate weird and wonderful curiosities from history, telling stories that are as often dumbfounding as they are gripping, as unexpected as they are hilarious or deeply moving.\nWhat are you waiting for? 
Welcome to the warren...

The Rabbit Hole Book: 99 adventures into the history of stuff

Charles, Spencer

Cat Jarman

Puzzles & Games

Michael Joseph, Ltd.

Canon Clement Mysteries Series 3 Books Collection Set By Richard Coles (A Death in the Parish, Murder at the Monastery & Murder Before Evensong)

Literature & Fiction

Erotica

W&N Ltd

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey - and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda.\nWhen Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village.\nAnd then Anthony Bowness - cousin to Bernard de Floures, patron of Champton - is found dead at the back of the church, stabbed in the neck with a pair of secateurs.\nAs the police moves in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together... and catch a killer.

Murder Before Evensong: A Canon Clement Mystery

Orion Publishing Co

It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. 
As Canon Daniel Clement tries to steady his flock, the parish is joined with Upper and Lower Badsaddle, bringing a new tide of unwanted change. 
But church politics soon become the least of Daniel's problems. His mother - headstrong, fearless Audrey - is obviously up to something, something she is determined to keep from him. And she is not the only one. 
And then all hell breaks loose when murder returns to Champton in the form of a shocking ritualistic killing...

A Death in the Parish

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Murder at the Monastery

Orion Publishing Group, Limited

A Death on Location: A Canon Clement Mystery

THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES\nCANON DANIEL CLEMENT IS BACK...\nIn the spring of 1990, we return to Champton, where the characters we've come to love are all aflutter as a glamorous movie set takes over the village.\nAs the actors don their bonnets, gowns and crowns, a murder interrupts filming on set - and it's an ingenious murder . . .\nCan Daniel solve the mystery with help from his sidekick Detective Sergeant Neil Vanloo - even when things are so sticky between them?

A Death on Location: The no.1 bestselling series

It is Christmas Day and at Champton Rectory, Canon Daniel Clement and his mother Audrey are joined by the residents and guests of the big house to drink, eat and be merry.\nAt the festive feast, peace and goodwill prevail.\nUntil two meet under the mistletoe. One of them falls down dead. And Daniel suspects murder has returned to Champton...\nCan Daniel and Detective Sergeant Neil Vanloo solve the crime and catch the Christmas killer?

Murder Under the Mistletoe: A Canon Clement Christmas Novella

Genre Fiction

Bringing in the Sheaves: Wheat and Chaff from My Years as a Priest

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