Ian Sansom: 15 books

«Il brillante personaggio del professor Morley promette di diventare un piccolo gioiello del mystery inglese.» DAILY MAIL «Una sorprendente prima tappa che vi lascerà la voglia di continuare il viaggio.» EVENING STANDARD «L’abilità di Ian Sansom come autore comico è straordinaria......

“[Israel’s] fish-out-of-water dilemmas and encounters with kooky locals will resonate with Alexander McCall Smith fans.” —Publishers Weekly   Author Ian Sansom “clearly loves a good laugh” (Washington Post), as his delightful mystery series featuring rumpled, fish-out-of-water,...

Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear. Would anything be lost? Everything would be lost. aper surrounds us. Not only as books, letters and diaries, but as beer mats and birth certificates, board games and business cards, fireworks and flypaper, photographs and...

A warm, humane, and sharply observed tale of small town life that is by equal turns hilarious and moving. Big Davey Jones is coming home. He's been gone almost 20 years now, but nobody's forgotten him. Davey's a local hero – his miracle birth as the seventh son of a seventh son brought fame to this...

Immaginiamo per un momento che la carta stia per scomparire. Che cosa andrebbe perduto? La risposta è semplice: tutto. La carta è tutt'intorno a noi. E non pensiamo soltanto ai libri, alle lettere, ai quotidiani; pensiamo ai certificati, alle carte da gioco, ai tovagliolini, ai biglietti da visita,...

Love Miss Marple? Adore Holmes and Watson? Professor Morley’s guide to Devon is a story of bygone England; quaint villages, eccentric locals—and murder… Swanton Morely, the People’s Professor, sets off for Devon to continue his history of England, The County Guides. Morley’s daughter,...

Love Miss Marple? Adore Holmes and Watson? Professor Morley's guide to Norfolk is a story of bygone England: quaint villages, eccentric locals—and murder … It is 1937, and disillusioned Spanish Civil War veteran Stephen Sefton is broke. So when he sees a mysterious advertisement for a job...

Israel Armstrong is a passionate soul, lured to Ireland by the promise of an exciting new career. Alas, the job that awaits him is not quite what he had in mind. Still, Israel is not one to dwell on disappointment, as he prepares to drive a mobile library around a small, damp Irish town. After all,...

Welcome to Westmorland. Perhaps the most scenic county in England! Home of the poets! Land of the great artists! District of the Great Lakes! And the scene of a mysterious crime . . . Swanton Morley, the People’s Professor, once again sets off in his Lagonda to continue his history of England,...

Disgruntled, disheveled, fish-out-of-water mobile librarian Israel Armstrong is finally going home to London, rattling along with his irascible companion Ted Carson in their rust bucket book van en route to the Mobile Meet. The annual library convention gives Israel the opportunity to catch up with...

Mr. Dixon a member of the Ulster Association of Magicians, has gone missing—along with one hundred thousand pounds in cash. Israel Armstrong, bighearted and overly inquisitive, should stick to delivering library books to out-of-the-way readers and not get involved in the investigation. But of course,...

Appena arrivato da Londra nella piccola cittadina di Tundrum, Irlanda del Nord, per ricoprire il suo primo posto come bibliotecario, il giovane Israel Armstrong scopre che in effetti il suo posto non c’è, né la biblioteca, né i libri... E questo non è che l’inizio dei suoi guai. Nel giro di...

Israel Armstrong – lo sventurato bibliotecario sovrappeso, mezzo ebreo, mezzo irlandese, vegetariano, patologicamente timido e nevrotico, che, alla guida del suo bibliobus lungo le strade dell’Irlanda del Nord, risolve, più che altro per caso, piani criminosi e problemi domestici – è ormai...

È la vigilia di Pasqua. Oggi è il grande giorno: il primo giorno della mostra itinerante sulla storia del più importante emporio della città, il leggendario Dixon & Pickering’s, che compie ben cento anni. E Israel Armstrong, bibliotecario itinerante di Tundrum e curatore dell’esposizione,...