New Releases by A. N. Wilson

In this powerful novel that will confirm his reputation as one of Britain''s brightest literary lights, A. N. Wilson recounts the downward spiral of Francis Kreer, a clergyman who does not believe in God and whose life starts to come apart at the seams. When his mother dies, Francis is shocked to discover that she had a lover and that he must share his inheritance with this (awful) man. Then Francis falls in love-painfully, absolutely-with an irresistable but most unsuitable young woman.A. N. Wilson traces Francis''s descent through various circles of the English establishment, a tragi-comic journey that takes the hapless hero to the outer edges of both absurdity and despair.

Les paroles, les agissements des membres de la famille royale de Grande-Bretagne et leurs conséquences sur la politique de la Grande-Bretagne et sur l''idée de monarchie dans ce même pays.

In a book that is as daring and unconventional as it is scholarly, the celebrated biographer of Tolstoy and C.S. Lewis searches for the elusive historical reality in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. Wilson enables readers of every shade of faith or skepticism to discover the man who became the central figure in Western civilization and whose teachings have survived nearly 2,000 years.

Hazel the guinea pig gets stuck in a boot, sees her hutch invaded by an enemy guinea pig, and gives birth unexpectedly.

The incomparable A.N. Wilson takes on the Doubting Thomases in this search for what is true and knowable in the Christian faith. He explores the "topsy-turvy" morality of the Sermon on the Mount, ruminates on Tolstoy, and insists that what is unknowable is not therefore unbelievable.

The author argues that religion has inspired many of man''s worst evils: war, prejudice, bigotry, cruelty, race hatred and fear. Without it, man would be free to be God. In this polemic, A.N.Wilson singles out the Pope and the Ayatollah for particular attack.

The story of the sentimental education of a boy orphaned in World War II and brought up in a quiet English village by his aunt and his uncle, vicar of the local church.

In this landmark biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A. N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer''s life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marriage. Wilson sweeps away the long-held belief that Tolstoy''s works were the exact mirror of his life, and instead traces the roots of Tolstoy''s art to his relationship with God, with women, and with Russia. He also breaks new ground in recreating the world that shaped the great novelist''s life and art--the turmoil of ideas and politics in nineteenth-century Russia and the incredible literary renaissance that made Tolstoy''s work possible. "Admirable. . . . Absorbing. . . . Superb."--Anthony Burgess "Stands as a model of the biographer''s art: intelligent and opinionated, yet judicious--and, what''s more, deliciously readable."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

A proud old alley cat tells his life story to his grandson, including his adventures in a convent, in a feline commune, and with his hearer''s grandmother.

Twee vriendinnen beschouwen het huwelijk van een derde vriendin als volmaakt, totdat gebeurtenissen daar een ander licht op werpen.

The author in this new biography of Milton sees the man whole, and in doing so enhances our understanding not only of his character but also of his poetry.

When Fanny Williams, a successful boutique owner, tries to buy an abandoned church to use as a warehouse, she learns that its architect was Oswald Fish, who has played an unsuspected role in her life

This mordantly witty and profoundly entertaining novel explores the twin destinies of Giles Fox, a lecherous, twice-widowed medievalist who has lost his sight during eighteen years devoted to the transcription and translation of the thirteenth-century Treatise of Heavenly Love, and of his daughter, Tibba, a lovely, stammering seventeen-year-old whose daydreams are full of characters out of Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen.

Pamela Cowper must deal with life and confront death after being diagnosed as having cancer

This critical biography the indifference which has surrounded Scott in this century and the distortions of his Victorian idolators to recapture the freshness of Scott as he appeared to his contemporaries. By weaving together the life and works, and examining all of Scott''s best-known books