Böcker av John Adamson

A spiritual battle looms at the Hub Christian Centre as Dot oversteps the mark once too often, rousing management concerns for her well-being. As leaders Jack and Pete agree the right course of action, the struggling employee wins a dream holiday in Spain. However, all is not as it seems. Dot seems to know more than she is admitting, but the twist of a knife in Seville turns the spotlight onto good-natured Jack. Devilish deception is all around, but who is the deceiver? As the murder enquiry escalates, retired detective Hamish is on hand, but can God bring good from this desperate situation?

The book begins by the North Sea. It is a late summer's afternoon, and a bright sun has dispersed the greyness of the day. Two Englishmen are enjoying a swim off the Essex coast when all at once both have the feeling that they are back at the French seaside. They find themselves starting to tell each other of their youthful experiences of living in France. The adventures they narrate follow one after another like waves rolling onto the shore. Clive, coming from London, had found himself spending a year deep in the French countryside within sight of the western Pyrenees; John, hailing from Devon, had ended up living for a while in the City of Light within sight of the Folies Bergere. Outsiders though they were, they momentarily became part of French society, their adventures fuelled by the culinary delights of their adopted land. They tell their tales with humour and relish as they recall their initiation into the French way of life of decades ago - and how it shaped their own.

A mysterious letter delivered to a Paris apartment uncovers a startling chain of events 500 miles away in a UK city. Coincidences or God at work? Jeanne has no doubt but colleague Roger must remain sensitive to wife Judy's childhood vulnerability. Meanwhile an eclectic group of characters who are searching for answers to life's big questions are rocked by the arrival of a stranger in their midst. Lining their journey are humour and suspicion as well as despair and outrageous love. But nothing can be straightforward for one of their number.

A portrait of the court of the Spanish Habsburgs during Spain's sixteenth and seventeenth-century 'Golden Age'.

This collection offers a distinctly Asian voice for English language education and addresses some of the unique needs of Asian learners in EFL contexts. Teachers and researchers from nine Asian countries present some of the most current and innovative research in five distinct and fascinating areas of EFL teaching and learning.

John Adamson provides a new synthesis of current research on the political crisis that engulfed England in the 1640s. Drawing on new archival findings and challenging current orthodoxies, these essays by leading historians offer a variety of original perspectives, locating English events firmly within a 'three kingdoms' context.

A magnificent new study of the political crisis that produced the overthrow of King Charles I, and came to engulf all three Stuart kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland - in war during the 1640s.