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James Runcie
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James Runcie is the artistic director of the Bath Literature Festival. He is also an award-winning filmmaker and theater director and has scripted several films for BBC Television. James Runcie lives in Edinburgh with his wife and two daughters.
Full Series List in Order
The Grantchester Mysteries
1 - Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (Apr-2012)2 - Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night (May-2013)
3 - Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil (Jun-2014)
4 - Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins (May-2015)
5 - Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of Temptation (Jun-2016)
6 - Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love (May-2017)
7 - The Road to Grantchester (May-2019)
Book List in Order: 14 titles
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The Discovery of Chocolate
- Jan-2001
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A wonderfully inventive and entertaining journey through time and the history of chocolate!The Discovery of Chocolate is a fabulous tale, as rich and exotic as the gorgeous creation that Diego de Godoy first discovers when he arrives in Mexico with C...
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The Colour of Heaven
- Feb-2003
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From the author of THE DISCOVERY OF CHOCOLATE â€" a romantic historical quest set in Renaissance Florence and China surrounding the search for ultramarine.THE COLOUR OF HEAVEN is a fictional account of a young man who travelled to what are now Afghan...
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Canvey Island
- Nov-2008
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'Runcie has captured the truth about love ... he is the simple chronicler of English post-war life, using irony and understatement to lay bare the pathos of ordinary lives ... Beautifully done' - Sunday Telegraph -
Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
- Apr-2012
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It is 1953, the coronation year of Queen Elizabeth II . Sidney Chambers, vicar of Grantchester and honorary canon of Ely Cathedral, is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall, with dark brown hair, eyes the color of hazelnuts, and a reassuringly gentle ...
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Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night
- May-2013
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The loveable full time priest and part time detective Canon Sidney Chambers continues his sleuthing adventures in late 1950's Cambridge. Accompanied by his faithful Labrador Dickens, and working in tandem with the increasingly exasperated Inspector G...
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Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil
- Jun-2014
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Our favorite clerical detective is back with four longer mysteries in which Canon Sidney Chambers attempts to stop a serial killer with a grievance against the clergy; investigates the disappearance of a famous painting after a distracting display of...
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Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins
- May-2015
- / Mystery
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The loveable full-time priest and part-time detective, Canon Sidney Chambers, continues his sleuthing adventures in 1960's Cambridge. On a snowy Thursday morning in Lent 1964, a stranger seeks sanctuary in Grantchester's church, convinced he has ...
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Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of Temptation
- Jun-2016
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It's the summer of love in late 1960s England. Basil D'Oliveira has just been dropped from the English cricket team before for a test series in apartheid South Africa; the war in Biafra dominates the news; and the Apollo 11 astronauts are preparing t...
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Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love
- May-2017
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The sixth book in the James Runcie's much-loved Granchester Mystery series, which has been adapted for Masterpiece's Grantchester starring James Norton, sees full-time priest, part-time detective Sidney Chambers plunged back into sleuthing when he di...
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The Road to Grantchester
- May-2019
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The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves, and losses of young Sidney Chambers in postwar London.
It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at ... -
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The Great Passion
- Mar-2022
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From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew Passion.
In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old, struggling with the... -