Product Description: This book is an omnibus edition containing three previously published books. - A Legacy of Kings: Israel's Chequered History Apart from the most famous kings, such as David and Solomon, many of the rest of the kings of the Old Testament have faded into obscurity - the life-lessons that can be applied to the lives of Christians are often over-looked as a result...read more

Product Description: Why did God go into such great detail with Moses as to exactly how the Tabernacle was to be built and what furniture was to be placed in it? And why did He include it all in our Bibles? Is it just rather dry, ancient history or is there anything that is applicable to Christians today – thousands of years later? Bible teacher, missionary and radio broadcaster, Brian Johnston's conversational and down to earth approach provides insights into a subject that many find daunting – but not only does it teach us many wonderful things about the work and person of Jesus, but it provides us with very relevant pictures of the collective service that God is looking for from Christians today...read more

Product Description: When Brian Johnston was a schoolboy, his reports were full of phrases such as 'talks too much in school' and 'apt to be a buffoon'. Later millions of radio listeners would be delighted to discover that some things never changed! Johnners brought his unique wit and personal charm to an enormous range of BBC radio and television programmes for nearly 50 years, from "In Town Tonight" and "Down Your Way" to "Test Match Special"...read more

Product Description: Down Your Way was one of the most popular programmes on BBC Radio from 1946 until 1992. Every week the presenter would visit a different city, town or village in the UK and interview six local people about its history, traditions and customs...read more

Product Description: BOOK SYNOPSISIn 1850, Henrik Ibsen arrived in Christiania (now Oslo), hoping to begin his university education. Yet something else lay in store for the twenty-two-year-old. Failing his exams in Greek and Arithmetic, he soon moved to Bergen to become "dramatic author" at the new Norwegian theatre there...read more

Product Description: Irresistible and delicious, this multifaceted travelogue delves deep into summer in Sicily—complete with all the passion, power, politics, and pasta of the Italian island. After accepting an invitation to attend a confirmation in Sicily, author Brian Johnston naively expects little more than the chance to immerse himself in genuine southern Italian hospitality and, of course, the vibrant tastes, smells, flavors, and rituals of Sicilian food...read more

Collects five plays spanning Ibsen's career, with general introductions, explanatory annotations, criticism, and selections from his correspondence and other writings.

Product Description: Have you heard the story about the day Dickie Bird was invited to lunch with the Queen? Or the one about Brian Johnston when he joined the Grenadier Guards? Here is a non-stop feast of jokes, anecdotes, and stories from five of Britain's best-known storytellers and raconteurs—Brian Johnston, Dickie Bird, Jon Pertwee, Brian Blessed, and Ned Sherrin...read more

Product Description: Emperor and Galilean was published in 1873 when Ibsen was at the height of his creative powers. He saw it as the cornerstone of his entire dramatic output. He had completed the two great poetic dramas, Brand and Peer Gynt, and was about to embark on the cycle of twelve modern plays, beginning with Pillars of Society and concluding with When We Dead Awaken , which were to establish his unrivaled international fame...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Johnston spent two and a half years in China at age 22. His account of those years is peppered with his encounters with the unexpected, including a TV crew, a snake and China's top rock star. He also gives a perspective on Chinese politics and society after the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown...read more

Product Description: The translations, created through a fresh approach to the Norwegian original in tandem with a keen sense of Ibsen's theatricallity and playability, have all been tested and refined in productions at professional theaters. The translators have paid particular attention to three aspects of Ibsen's technique: his wit and humor, his "supertext" - the web of rich allusions and references that he weaves in and around his dialogue - and the bold theatricallity of the plays...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Reluctantly traveling to upstate New York in order to help an amateur historian build a private Sturbridge Village-style restoration on the family estate, Winston Wyc becomes aware of the family's disapproval before an attempt is made on his life.

Architectural historian Winston Wyc heads north to a town he vowed he would never set foot in again to help the local historical society decide the fate of an old mansion, but he stumbles across a mystery in the process. Original.

Product Description: Life is short. Vacations are shorter. Relax! Trust your trip to Frommer's. Choose the Only Guide That Gives You:Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip no matter what your budget.The latest, most reliable information—all completely up-to-date!Dozens of easy-to-read color maps...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hired by a monastery retreat in New Holland, New York, architectural historian Winston Wyc soon discovers a corpse floating in the river and comes up with a list of suspects that includes a nun, an art collector, a sexy reporter, and a river rat

When Winston Wyc arrives in the picturesque village of Wistfield, two senseless, seemingly unrelated murders have already shattered the calm, and he must catch the killer before he can strike again

Product Description: Brian Johnston's approach to Ibsen, now well known, is unlike any other. Johnston sees Ibsen's twelve realist plays as a single cyclical work, the "realist" method of which hides a much larger poetic intention than has previously been suspected...read more