Pope John Paul II’s encyclical on the moral of life, Veritatis Splendor, has aroused extraordinary interest and controversy inside and outside the Catholic Church. In bold and uncompromising language the Pope reaffirms Christian moral teaching, condemns the relativism, scepticism and unchecked individualism of the modern world, and criticizes some established trends in contemporary Catholic theology.
‘Among the greats of the high adventure story-tellers’ EVENING NEWS The opposition were all old campaigners with a lifetime’s dirty fighting behind them. They had got an old U Boat and a flag, and were handing out vicious justice in the name of France. As far as British Intelligence was concerned there was only one…
The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in 1984 and was at once hailed by the critics as a contemporary classic. ‘Read this book; here is a writer who really matters.’ Malcolm Bradbury ‘This is a brilliant novel from someone who, amongst Rushdie and Marquez, is one of our masters of magic realism.’ Cosmopolitan…
‘Angel’s one-liners are frequent and funny, but there is an acute observer of modern mores beneath the endearing roguishness’ MARCEL BERLINS, THE TIMES Most families have a skeleton in the cupboard. Fitzroy MacLean Angel has a mortuary… It requires all Angel’s streetwise talents to find a missing brother, uncover and outrageous Common Market drugs deal,…
Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn’t conclude until nine o’clock tonight (Paris time). It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue,…
