James Runcie
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume prequel
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves and losses of a young Sidney Chambers in post-war London. It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war. Returning to London seven years later, Sidney has gained a Military...
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduces unconventional clergyman Sidney Chambers, who teams up with roguish Inspector Harry Keating to investigate a suspicious suicide, a jewelry theft, the unexplained demise of a jazz promoter, and a shocking art forgery.
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Language
English
Description
"It is May 1971 and the Cambridgeshire countryside is bursting into summer. Attending to his paternal duties, Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is walking in the woods with his daughter Anna and their aging Labrador Byron when they stumble upon a body. Beside the dead man lies a basket of wild flowers, all poisonous. And so it is that Sidney is thrust into another murder investigation, entering a world of hippies, folk singers, and psychedelic plants, where...
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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 nudity by a French girl in an art gallery; uncovers the fact that an "accidental" drowning on a film shoot may have been something more sinister; and discovers the reasons behind the theft of a baby...
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The second in a series of detective novels set against the backdrop of 30 years of British history, featuring an unforgettable and unlikely hero, Sidney Chambers.
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Collects six new stories featuring the priest and part-time detective Sidney Chambers, in which he helps a youth in a hippie commune, a student who is divested of a family heirloom, and his former curate, who has been tied to an arson attack.
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In a latest Grantchester mystery set in 1960s Cambridge, a man seeks sanctuary after killing his wife, a friend is pursued by a mysterious stranger, a man is accidentally crushed by a piano and Sydney is wrongly accused of theft.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old, struggling with the death of his mother and his removal to a school in distant Leipzig. Despite his father's insistence that he try not to think of his mother too much, Stefan is haunted by her absence, and, to make matters worse, he's bullied by his new classmates. But when the school's cantor, Johann Sebastian Bach, takes notice of his new pupil's beautiful singing voice and draws...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It's 1953 and Sidney Chambers is vicar of Grantchester, a village just outside Cambridge, England. Sidney's is a quiet life. He tends to his flock, keeps up with his jazz collection, and does his best to contain his passion for beautiful heiress Amanda Kendall. But when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances, Sidney quickly finds that people confide things in a parish priest that they would never tell police.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sidney Chambers (James Norton, Happy Valley) is a handsome, jazz-loving village vicar haunted by his past. Geordie Keating (Robson Green, Wires in the Blood, Touching Evil) is a hard-boiled police detective, overworked and weary. Together they solve crimes and right wrongs in picturesque 1950s Cambridge. Based on a novel by James Runcie, the hit British series returns with Chambers having doubts about his pious lifestyle, now that his old flame Amanda...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's 1956 -- a year since Amanda left Grantchester, and the post-war rulebook is being torn up. Sidney Chambers (James Norton) is feeling adrift, a man without a cause -- until American civil rights activist Violet Todd arrives and fires up his need for social justice. But with a cause this dangerous, Sidney might not be around forever. Soon there's a new Vicar of Grantchester, firebrand Will Davenport (Tom Brittney). Idealistic and energetic, Will...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness; the madhouses and...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It's 1957, and it's as if the world of Grantchester has returned to an idyllic state, a metaphorical Garden of Eden. Will believes that everyone can get close to their own Eden through good works and a proactive attitude. But as Geordie knows, every Eden has its snakes. Will's faith will be tested as he and Geordie are reminded that there's darkness lurking in their corner of Cambridgeshire.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's the long hot summer of 1959 and wedding season is in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. As the Reverend Will Davenport unites happy couples in holy matrimony, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating finds himself trying to repair his own marriage to estranged wife Cathy.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Will's life has changed for the better. He is happily married to the brilliant Bonnie and due to become a father, but his world is about to be rocked by a terrible accident. He's always preached the word of a compassionate God, but how can he do that now?