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  • Mister Timeless Blyth: A Biographical Novel

    R.H. Blyth's Life of Zen and Haiku, Bridging East and West

    by Alan Spence ...
    *Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2024 Longlist*Lovers of Haiku, Zen and Japan will find this novel truly inspiring!An extraordinary man at a crucial time and place."In Mister Timeless Blyth, writer Alan Spence has created a fascinating (auto) biography, convincingly in R.H. Blyth's own voice. In it, he has conveyed the haiku scholar's love of music, eastern and western literature, Zen ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Night Boat

    by Alan Spence ...
    "One of the best Scottish writers of our time" offers "a fictional re-creation of the life and teachings of the 18th century Zen master Ekaku Hakuin" ( Scotsman).On the side of a mountain in eighteenth-century Japan sits a man in perfect stillness as the summit erupts, spitting fire and molten rock onto the land around him. The man is Hakuin. He will become the world's most famous teacher of Zen ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pure Land

    by Alan Spence ...
    The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a gutsy eighteen-year-old who grasps the chance of escape to foreign lands and takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, learns the ways of the samurai, and, on the other side of the law, brings about the overthrow of the Shogun. Yet beneath Glover's astonishing success lies a man cut to the heart. His love affair with a ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Not Dark Yet

    A Celebration of John Herdman

    by James Robertson, Marjorie Sandor, Alan Spence ...
    Published to mark John Herdman's 80th birthday in 2021.Writers, academics, publishers and literary figures from Britain, Europe and North America came together to celebrate Scottish novelist and critic, John Herdman.The cast of Not Dark Yet are John Herdman's contemporaries and friends, his students and readers.This celebration of John Herdman is witness to the strength of admiration that exists ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Its Colours They Are Fine

    by Alan Spence ...
    Series series Canons
    A classic of short fiction, Alan Spence’s celebrated debut collection, first published in 1977, brings Glasgow to vibrant life and captures the spirit of the city as it teetered on the brink of change. From childhood Christmases in small tenement flats and games played on scrubland, to Orange Walks on bright Saturday afternoons and Thursday nights in dark, pulsing dancehalls, these interlinked ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Glasgow Zen

    by Alan Spence ...
    A superb new collection of haiku and other short poetic forms on the theme of Glasgow - its people, landscape, culture. As always, Spence is uniquely illuminating, witty and delightful.Incorporating some of the poems which appeared decades ago in the much sought-after collection of the same title, Glasgow Zen includes mostly new material from this highly popular and exquisite poet. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Love Hurts: The Heart of the Christian Story

    The Heart of the Christian Story

    by Alan J Spence ...
    This book offers a fresh outline of the Christian story shaped by the idea of God's love as it is described in the New Testament.Love Hurts is a fresh and compact summary of the central themes of the Christian message. Journeying through the Bible's rich and diverse world of ideas and stories, it leads the reader on a route mapped out by one particular motif - the love of God. The meaning of this ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Christology: A Guide for the Perplexed

    by Rev Dr Alan J. Spence ...
    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    Today Christology is of concern to both New Testament scholars and theologians alike and continues to provoke debate within the Church. Christology: A Guide for the Perplexed examines the key debates and defining moments in the early Church and the Reformation. After a brief introduction providing a basic definition of Christology, this historical background provides an essential foundation on ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Who Has Bewitched You? A Study in Galatians

    by Alan J Spence ...
    A study of Paul's letter to the Galatians as a way to understanding the nature of the gospel, justification by faith, the law, the Holy Spirit, Christian freedom, being one with Christ, and the challenges those truths faced in Paul's day, at certain key stages in the history of the Church, and today. This accessible study reveals Paul's argument in Galatians and applies it to today's church ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Seasons Of The Heart

    by Alan Spence ...
    This is Spence's first book of poetry since Glasgow Zen. He evokes the essence of the seasons with this cycle of haiku. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Clear Light

    by Alan Spence ...
    Clear Light contains 150 haiku bursting with Alan Spence's characteristic verve and wit.Mythic and mesmerising, inspiring and hilarious, these poems shed clear light on the delights, hardships, breakthroughs and frustrations of the world of the momentary.Simple in form, these haiku request a fresh look at the familiar and leave us reeling at how much in the world, from the exotic to the everyday, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Secret Lore of London

    The city's forgotten stories and mythology

    by John Matthews, Nigel Pennick, Caroline Wise, Caitlín Matthews, Carol Clancy, R.J. Stewart, Bernard Nesfield-Cookson, Gareth Knight, Robert Stephenson, Geraldine Beskin, Chesca Potter, William Stukeley, Lewis Spence, Harold Bayley, Alan V. Insole, Ross Nichols ...
    With a foreword by Iain Sinclair.London is an ancient city, whose foundation dates back literally thousands of years into the legendary prehistory of these islands. Not surprisingly it has accumulated a large number of stories, both historic and mythical, during this period, many of which, though faithfully recorded at the time, have lain almost forgotten in dusty libraries throughout the city.The ... Read more

    $3.99 USD