Bøger af Stuart Campbell

A crazed young man crashes through a tropical forest in northern Australia. An elderly history professor in England awaits arrest and execution for writing her memoir. What links their destinies?

Why do actors make such a mess of pirate accents? Is the Australian shock jock an endangered species? What sort of music stimulates the creation of fiction? Why is everything in the supermarket 'Moroccan' these days? This collection of short essays by Stuart Campbell, a former professor of linguistics and an independent fiction author, answers these questions and more as he reflects on writing, film, language and culture. As Raymond Saucisson, editor of Charcuterie Monthly, has said in his introduction to the book, 'This is cutting edge writing'.

Jack, the owner of a failing bookshop in a picture-postcard country town near London, is embezzling from a client. Thea is a philosophy lecturer with a taste for pinching cash. There's something amiss with their marriage, but an occasional spot of larceny provides the frisson to keep it going, as well as the funds for the kids' school fees. But things start to go badly wrong when an old lover turns up demanding a slice of the action. Could you live with a would-be murderer? This is the question for Thea and Jack in this fast-moving psychological drama with an undercurrent of black comedy.

Sydney, New Year's Day, 1978. While the beaches teem and the cold beers flow, a clandestine syndicate is planning to overthrow the Australian government. They've commissioned dodgy businessman Kerry Rich to detonate a bomb at the Opera House on Anzac Day. He's passed the job on to Pierre Farag, a reluctant British sleeper agent dumped in Australia. But Pierre and his wife Zouzou want out - out of Sydney and out of doing other people's dirty jobs. Meanwhile investigative journalist Liz Lanzoni has got a sniff of the bomb plot and sees the chance to break the story of the decade. As the day of the blast looms the operation unravels, and Pierre, Zouzou, Liz and Kerry find themselves on the run to a hideout in the northern tropics of Queensland. Soaked in the hedonism and corruption of late seventies Sydney, The Sunset Assassin traces the fine line between loyalty and betrayal. The Sunset Assassin is the third novel of the Siranoush Trilogy.

October, 1973: Egypt is bracing for war. Cairo private investigator Pierre Farag is tidying up old cases and calling in debts when he stumbles on a plot to murder the notorious film star Zouzou Paris, his childhood sweetheart. At the same time, former British intelligence agents Mark Bellamy and Lucy Vickers are recalled to duty in Cairo to arrange the defection of a Soviet diplomat. As the outbreak of war approaches, Pierre, Lucy, Zouzou and Mark find themselves at the centre of a cynical diplomatic plot that will irrevocably change the course of their lives, and possibly the outcome of the war. Cairo Mon Amour is a gripping thriller and a poignant love story, based on the real-life deception campaign by the Egyptian intelligence services to conceal the date of the attack on Sinai. Espionage fans will be enthralled by Stuart Campbell's evocation of Cairo during the Yom Kippur War.

Robert Mason spent many years in Special forces and after nearly losing his life is in search of answers as to the purpose of some of his more sensitive missions. Along the way he is asked to help his old friend Daniel Masters, now a Senator. His investigation into corruption at the highest levels requires not only the skills of Mason, but the skills of some highly trained Ninja.

Daniel Defoe's Railway Journeys describes the odyssey undertaken by two eccentric pensioners as they travel on every mile of railway track in the UK.

The dynamics of immigration, international commerce and the postcolonial world make it inevitable that much translation is done into a second language. This study adopts an interlanguage framework to consider second language translation as the product of developing competence.

John McPake, a former teacher, has a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Soon after his marriage fell apart he started hearing voices and eventually moved into an Edinburgh hostel for men with enduring mental health problems. An earlier obsession with the works of Breughel develops into a full blown delusion, and he assumes the personna of Johannes, a 16th century Dutch weaver who travels with his friends, Balthazar and Cornelius, in pursuit of his son who has been abducted by the Spanish mercenaries. This is an echo of John's real life quest to be reunited with his brother.

The conference in Manchester in 1992 which this book came out of was organised to raise the profile of the study of mortuary remains in the Ancient Near East. Thirty papers from the conference are published here, covering a wide variety of regions and periods, from Epipalaeolithic to modern.