Paul Murray: 33 books

Paul Murray is not only an academic, a preacher and published poet, he is also a superb pastor. During his ministry, he has dealt with some extraordinary people - not least a South African who was convicted of murder and hanged under Apartheid. Drawing on this remarkable experience, the reader is...

Skippy tussen de sterren beschrijft één enkele catastrofale herfst op het internaat Seabrooks, gezien vanuit zon twintig verschillende uitgeschreven perspectieven: studenten, docenten, administratieve krachten, priesters, vriendinnetjes, en de manager van een donutwinkel. In het centrum van alles...

What links the Investment Bank of Torabundo, www.myhotswaitress.com (yes, with an s, don't ask), an art heist, a novel called For the Love of a Clown, a six-year-old boy with the unfortunate name of Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by...

What is it like in practice to come close to the presence of God? Are there words which can, in some way, explain the nature of that experience? In this compelling study, Paul Murray draws attention to both the wisdom and lived experience of those men and women who knew, at first hand, of the light...

Vastly entertaining and outright hilarious, Paul Murray’s debut heralds the arrival of a major new Irish talent. His protagonist is endearing and wildly witty–part P. G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster, with a cantankerous dash of A Confederacy of Dunces’ Ignatius J. Reilly thrown in. With its...

This new third edition of Bradt's Zimbabwe remains the most authoritative and trusted guide available, written in an engaging and entertaining style by an expert author who has been visiting Zimbabwe annually for nearly 30 years and now spends six months of each year there. In this new thoroughly...

Lutte contre Charles le Téméraire, rattachement de plusieurs grands fiefs au royaume de France, modernisation de l’armée : le règne de Louis XI (1461-1483) est marqué par son œuvre de centralisation. De la masse de documents inédits que Paul Murray Kendall a passé plusieurs années à étudier...

GREY chronicles in part, the bizarre interaction between the Smith family in Johannesburg and the returning exiles, the Dlaminis from Washington DC through circumstances no-one could ever have imagined. The pursuit of a stolen tracker chip, in Sipho Dlamini’s possession, by dark beings from...

The first part of Jack Tyler's dust with the devil.  Suicide? Not when there are other options available, Jack. Thus begins the walk-in and Lucifer's first experience of wearing a human "fat suit" in the 3rd dimensional realm. As if that wasn't debilitating enough - then...

'Het doel en de leegte' is waarschijnlijk de grappigste roman over de financiële crisis. De Fransman Claude Martingale, aan zijn lot overgelaten in het verbijsterend vochtige, geïsoleerde Ierland, wordt benaderd door Paul, een schrijver die het allemaal niet mee zit. En Paul is op zoek naar zijn...

Aquinas at Prayer draws attention to important aspects of Aquinas's life and work which have been all too often overlooked or forgotten. Today Aquinas is almost exclusively regarded as an outstanding scholastic philosopher and theologian. But what is little known is that Aquinas was, first and last,...

Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat at Bosworth Field, the last decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses,...

Achieving a sustainable society is the biggest issue of our time. It is not an issue confined to a particular subject area or to certain jobs. It is a way of thinking and behaving that will need to be embedded in all aspects of all of our lives. The Sustainable Self is the perfect resource for lecturers,...

Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop? Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional...