Doug Thompson
Doug Thompson gave up a career in university teaching, research and writing to become a novelist and occasional painter. He is currently editor of Troubador’s Storia imprint of modern and contemporary Italian novels in translation, and is shortly also to publish his translation of Enrico Palandri’s L’altra sera, 2003 (The other evening) in that series. He has travelled widely and continues to do so, particularly in Italy, Greece and Australia, and has lived at various times in Italy, Singapore and Ireland. He is currently revising a long novel set in Queensland in 1850, and is near to finishing the first draft of another, An Antique Drum, set in Italy during the Second World War.
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To the Great Sea A Story for Christmas
Doug Thompson
Price: £5.24 - Saving £1.75 (25%)Although this book was written at a time of personal loss it explores the protagonist’s liberating encounter with Christianity at its very outset. It is effectively a re-telling of the ‘Christmas story’, albeit from the viewpoint of the least prepared,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2011
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Checkmate Portraits of Power
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The three novellas were written at quite different times and in differing circumstances and consequently reflect my concerns of their particular moment of creation, while nevertheless unifying around the central theme of inhuman abuses of power. Mind of God was...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2013-
To the Great Sea A Story for Christmas
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What is this man afraid of? What is he fleeing from? Where is he going? Who, indeed, is he? Having crossed the great river, he has vague notions of heading westwards towards the Great Sea - until chance intervenes. On...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/12/2011 -
Crime and Deviance
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Part of a modularized series of short books on introductory sociology, Crime and Deviance is an introduction to the field, its fundamental concepts and major writers, especially those relevant to southern Africa and the developing world. This concise, book addresses...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2002
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