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  • Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death

    Grantchester Mysteries 1

    by Mr James Runcie ...
    Series Book 1 - Grantchester
    The first of the Grantchester Mysteries, and inspiration for the PBS/Masterpiece television series, finds Vicar Sidney Chambers beginning his career, as both a spiritual leader and a detective.Now on NetflixIt is 1953, the coronation year of Queen Elizabeth II . Sidney Chambers, vicar of Grantchester and honorary canon of Ely Cathedral, is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall, with dark brown hair ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Road to Grantchester

    by James Runcie ...
    The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves, and losses of young Sidney Chambers in postwar London.It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war.Returning to London ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Grantchester Mysteries

    by Mr James Runcie ...
    Series series Grantchester
    The complete collection of the beloved Grantchester Mysteries series--the inspiration for the PBS Masterpiece TV Show starring James Norton.Now on NetflixAfter fighting in World War II and hearing the call to the priesthood, Sidney Chambers begins his career as a full-time priest and part-time detective in the English countryside in 1953. Over the course of the two decades and six books that ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of Temptation

    by James Runcie ...
    Series Book 5 - Grantchester Mysteries
    In this fifth entry in the mystery series that inspired the PBS Masterpiece TV series Grantchester , a country clergyman tackles six puzzling cases."There is no reason at all why this series should not run and run and why Sidney Chambers should not occupy the same place in the pantheon as Miss Marple or Poirot."― The Catholic Heral... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Discovery of Chocolate

    A Novel

    by James Runcie ...
    A wonderfully inventive and entertaining journey through time and the history of chocolate!The Discovery of Chocolate is a fabulous tale, as rich and exotic as the gorgeous creation that Diego de Godoy first discovers when he arrives in Mexico with Cortes and his conquistadors.Diego is seeking his fortune in the New World. What he finds is love, and chocolate, and an elixir of life. Separated from ... Read more

    $5.49 USD

  • Canvey Island

    by Mr James Runcie ...
    _______________'Runcie has captured the truth about love ... he is the simple chronicler of English post-war life, using irony and understatement to lay bare the pathos of ordinary lives ... Beautifully done' - Sunday Telegraph'A tender, intimate account of post-war England which left me both wistful and elated ... So engaging, so well-shaped and so unsparingly, generously truthful' - Jim Crace___ ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night

    by James Runcie ...
    Series Book 2 - The Grantchester Mysteries
    An English clergyman contemplates murder and marriage in this second entry in the series that inspired the PBS Masterpiece series Grantchester ."Taken individually, each of these clerical whodunits poses a clever puzzle for armchair detectives. Viewed as a collective study of British life as it was lived when Elizabeth II first ascended the throne, these stories present... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Colour of Heaven

    by James Runcie ...
    From the author of THE DISCOVERY OF CHOCOLATE – a romantic historical quest set in Renaissance Florence and China surrounding the search for ultramarine.THE COLOUR OF HEAVEN is a fictional account of a young man who travelled to what are now Afghanistan and China to discover lapis lazuli, the precious stone that when turned into ultramarine changed the history of painting – allowing artists to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love

    by James Runcie ...
    Series Book 6 - Grantchester Mysteries
    The sixth installment in the Grantchester Mysteries series, now a major PBS television series as well.The sixth book in the James Runcie's much-loved Granchester Mystery series, which has been adapted for Masterpiece's Grantchester starring James Norton, sees full-time priest, part-time detective Sidney Chambers plunged back into sleuthing when he discovers a body in a bluebell wood.It is May 1971 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tell Me Good Things

    On Love, Death, and Marriage

    by James Runcie ...
    A profound examination of grief and a great celebration of love by internationally bestselling author James Runcie.In early 2020, as the world sunk into the pandemic, James Runcie and his wife Marilyn Imrie were going through a different, far more personal tragedy. After 35 years of miraculously happy marriage, they learned that the painful, frustrating symptoms Marilyn had been experiencing for ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Passion

    A Novel

    by James Runcie ...
    From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew Passion.In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old, struggling with the death of his mother and his removal to a school in distant Leipzig. Despite his father's insistence that he try not to think of his mother too much, Stefan is ... Read more

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  • Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins

    A Novel

    by James Runcie ...
    Series Book 4 - The Grantchester Mysteries
    An English clergyman investigates a murder confession in the fourth entry in this series, the inspiration for the PBS Masterpiece series Grantchester ."Chambers is a winning protagonist, fervid in his faith yet prone to human frailty, and his exploits provide multiple pleasures for readers of cozies and beyond." — BooklistThe l... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus