New Releases by Frank Cottrell Boyce

A Bible Study book for individuals or groups, which explores how the Bible today can help us better to understand themes of forgiveness. Why should we forgive? What if the subject of our forgiveness is underserving? What is Jesus'' scandal of grace? What difference will being able to forgive make to our lives? Forgiveness is part of the all new series, How the Bible can Help us Understand. These short books are aimed at ordinary people committed in their faith and wanting to live Christianly, but not brought up in a Bible-studying tradition. They prompt intelligent thought, reflection and guidance on issues that really matter to people, using illustrations from life and popular culture as well as studies of Bible passages. They are not ''The Bible has all the answers'', but ''How can the Bible contribute to my understanding?''.

''Et vroum, la voilà qui redémarre : une lecture chitty chitty chouette!'' (DLire)

Two refugee brothers from Mongolia are determined to fit in with their Liverpool schoolmates, but bring so much of Mongolia to Bootle that their new friend and guide, Julie, is hard-pressed to know truth from fantasy.

We know Stanislaw Lem, whether or not we consciously know that we do. He may only be recognised in the West as the author of the twice-filmed novel, Solaris, but the influence of his other work is legion. From computer games (The Sims was inspired by one of his short stories), to films (the red and blue pills of The Matrix owe much to his Futurological Congress); from the space comedies of Red Dwarf to the metaphysical satires of Douglas Adams... the presence of this masterly Polish writer can be traced far and wide. Nor was his genius confined to fiction. Lem''s essays and pseudo-essays borne out of the military industrial tensions of the Cold War have outlived their original context and speak to the most current developments in virtual reality, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence. To celebrate his name, as well as his vision, this anthology brings together writers, critics and scientists who continue to grapple with his concerns. British and Polish novelists join screenwriters, poets, computer engineers, and artists, to celebrate and explore Lem''s legacy through short stories and essays - two literary forms that, as Lem knew well, can blend together to create something altogether new. As one of the barriers to Lem''s fame was language, this book also features specially commissioned translations: three stories never to have appeared in English before. Lem was always ahead of us. It''s time we caught up.

** Winner of the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology** In 1919 Sigmund Freud published an essay that delved deep into the tradition of horror writing and claimed to understand one of its darkest tricks. Like a mad scientist, he performed literary vivisection on a still-breathing body of work, exploring its inner anatomy, and pulling out mysterious organs for classification. His aim: to present to the world a complete theory of ‘das unheimliche’, the uncanny. In the spirit of this great experiment, 14 leading authors have here been challenged to write fresh fictional interpretations of what the uncanny might mean in the 21st century, to update Freud’s famous checklist of what gives us the creeps, and to give the hulking canon of uncanny fiction a shot in the arm, a shock to the neck-bolts... ''It’s not too great a stretch to see Comma as the literary equivalent of Factory Records.'' - The Herald, 2 Dec. ''Delightful and disturbing'' - The Independent on Sunday, 14 Dec. ''A masterclass in understated creepiness... a deliciously macabre collection that the old Austrian might well have enjoyed.'' - Book of the Week, Time Out, 12 Jan. ''If we need the uncanny – and I suspect we do – then we also need it updating... laudable.'' - Book of the Week, The Independent, 2 Jan. ''A bold idea.'' - The Guardian, 3 Jan.

The Tootings plan to go home, but they accidentally send themselves back to the Jurassic Age, and after being chased by a T-rex they head to Prohibition-era New York where Chitty enters a race to the lost city of El Dorado and back again.

"Hilarious and endlessly entertaining." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Buckle your seatbelt for the first-ever follow-up to Ian Fleming’s only children’s story! Fueled by wry humor, this much-anticipated sequel to the children’s classic — featuring a contemporary family and a camper van with a mind of her own — is driven by best-selling, award-winning author Frank Cottrell Boyce and revved up by Joe Berger’s captivating black-and-white illustrations.

When two Mongolian brothers inexplicably appear one morning in her sixth grade class, Julie, who lives in a town near Liverpool, England, named Bootle, becomes their new friend and "Good Guide," navigating them through soccer, school uniforms, and British slang.

Je m''appelle Liam Digby, j''ai douze ans. Je suis du genre très grand et j''ai du poil au menton, alors on me prend souvent pour un adulte. C''est comme ça que je me suis retrouvé à l''autre bout du monde pour faire un tour de fusée. Sauf que partir dans l''espace, ça n''a rien à voir avec un jeu vidéo. Mais impossible de revenir en arrière... on avait déjà décollé !

Jurybegründung: Im Schlagschatten eines grossen Berges leben die Bewohner des walisischen Städtchens Manod. Doch die verträumte Kleinstadtatmosphäre wird gestört, als die wertvollen Kunstwerke der National Gallery im Bauch des Berges eingelagert werden sollen. Frank Cottrell Boyce greift diese "wahre" historische Begebenheit auf, verschiebt sie in die Gegenwart und entwickelt daraus einen fulminant ersonnenen Roman. Dabei zeichnet er ein liebevolles Porträt eines kleinen Tagebuchschreibers und dessen Familie, die den Anforderungen ihres nicht immer einfachen Alltags mit viel Charme und Erfindungsgeist trotzen. Boyce schafft eine klug erdachte Familiensaga, eine heitere Schelmengeschichte und surft gleichzeitig durch die Kunsthistorie, ironisiert den bildungsbürgerlichen Umgang mit dem wertvollen Erbe. Schwungvoll erzählt, mit Liebe zum Detail und mit viel Humor und literarischem Verstand, schafft der Autor ein wunderbar verregnetes Meisterwerk. Die Übersetzung aus dem Englischen von Salah Naoura lässt das walisische Schiefergrau des Schauplatzes Manod in Sonnenblumengelb leuchten. (Quelle: www.jugendliteratur.org).

Dylan and his sisters have some ideas about how to make Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel into a more profitable business, but it is not until some strange men arrive in their small town of Manod, Wales with valuable paintings, and their father disappears, that they consider turning to crime.

Frank Cottrell Boyce é um conhecido guionista de filmes britânico que se inspirou no filme homónimo, de sua autoria, estrando-se assim na literatura infanto-juvenil. É uma verdadeira obra-prima em mais que um sentido, um livro ''diferente'', que tem vindo a apaixonar adultos e crianças em todo o mundo! É uma história que poderia ter acontecido no nosso tempo, inteligente e de uma sensibilidade invulgar, sendo ao mesmo tempo muitíssimo divertida. Quando após a morte da Mãe, Damian, que é quem conta a história, Anthony, o irmão mais velho, e o desorientado Pai mudam de casa, todos três, à sua maneira, têm de lidar com aquela dolorosa perda afectiva. Damian, um miúdo formidável, é um ser que pertence a dois mundos. A sua paixão são os santos e, em certa medida, tentar ser sempre bom, para ele, é uma forma de se aproximar da Mãe. Anthony, ao contrário do irmão, possui um forte sentido das realidades. Mas mesmo Damian, no seu esforço para se aproximar do Céu, é atingido pela realidade, sob a forma de um saco de dinheiro que ele julga ter caído Lá de Cima. O grande problema deste excepcional acontecimento, para toda a família, é que isto se passa na tansição da moeda nacional para o Euro e aquele dinheiro, qualquer que seja o fim a que o destinem, tem de ser gasto em 17 dias!