Selwyn Alumni in Print - 1960s

Aristotle, and the Philosophers of the Golden Age of Islam: Their Relevance Today

Professor Akbar Ahmed talks to the reader directly as he seeks to narrate in simple language some of the highly sophisticated complex philosophical points. The book also informs the new generation of readers about facts that, somehow, go unnoticed.

Akbar's profound and careful inquiries have greatly enriched our understanding of Islam in the modern world. His latest study, based on direct research with a group of young scholars, explores the complex interfaith reality of Europe, both in history and today, from an Eastern perspective, reversing the familiar paradigm. 

Leslie Croxford's third novel is a complex, carefully braided story of emotional wounding and healing, one in which Frank Ward, a research historian troubled by his own past and a sense of emptiness, seeks to become what Albert Speer sought, but failed to be: another man. Frank plunges into an attempt to penetrate the mystery of Speer – the so-called 'Good Nazi' – beyond the extent of his crimes

A haunting novel that "invites comparison with E.M.Forster and Lawrence Durrell" - The New Yorker.

Deep Sahara is a suspenseful exploration of one man's emotional resurgence, rendered sparingly and with great physical and psychological precision.

Leslie Croxford has written one prvious novel, Solomon's Folly.

A book of two halves. The first section focuses on the gardens that Wordsworth made at Grasmere and Rydal in the English Lake District, and also in Leicestershire. The gardens are explored via his poetry and prose and the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. In the second half of the book, the reader learns more of Wordsworth's use of flowers in his poetry, exploring the importance of British flowers and other 'unassuming things' to his work, as well as their wider cultural, religious and political meaning.

This book is the first to cover all of Norfolk’s 197 bee species, including bumblebees, honeybees and solitary bees. Each species has its own page with images and distribution maps with notes on flight period, habitat, flowers visited, nesting and parasites. It includes up-to-date information on bees which have been lost and new bees coming in to the county.

Co-authored by Hugh Purcell and his wife Margaret Percy, Up Top tells how the mentally ill were treated in the 20th century, focusing on the Mid Wales Mental Hospital, which began as a lunatic asylum and closed when community care took over 100 years later. It was the only UK hospital for psychotic POWs in World War II, including, briefly, the Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. This account is based on original archives and oral testimony from staff and patients, and is copiously illustrated.

There is a progressive side to Yale's secret societies that we rarely hear about, one that, in the cultural tumult of the 1960s, resulted in the election of people of colour, women, and gay men, even in proportions beyond their percentages in the class. It's a side that is often overlooked in favour of sensational legends of blood oaths and toe-curling conspiracies.

The latest novel in the Kat and Ken, Australian espionage adventure series. Blackmail, sabotage and murder shatter the calm of a Victorian bush town; unrelated acts of evil or evidence of a wider and deeper, Chinese Communist Party, plot to undermine and take over Australia? A routine job for Ken Eliot threatens his life, and growing evidence of Chinese State infiltration drives him back into ASIO service, re-uniting him with the deceptive and deadly Kat Douglas.

Prayers by Ian Stockton, formerly Canon Chancellor at Blackburn Cathedral. They cover many issues and concerns of modern life, from climate change to political conflict, from sport to sexuality, from homelessness to care of the elderly, and from Islam to Ireland. The themes of justice, care for others, interdependence, thanksgiving and hope feature strongly throughout this book.
Available from bookshops at £10 or may be ordered from the author at Ian.G.Stockton@gmail.com for £12, including p&p.