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The extraordinary, powerful second novel from the Booker prizewinning author of Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo is both a vivid portrayal of working-class life and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. They should be sworn enemies if they’re to be seen as men at all, and yet they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the doocot that James has built for his prize racing pigeons. As they begin to fall in love, they dream of escaping the grey city, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his elder brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold. But the threat of discovery is constant and the punishment unspeakable. When Mungo’s mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in Western Scotland, with two strange men behind whose drunken banter lie murky pasts, he needs to summon all his inner strength and courage to get back to a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future. Imbuing the everyday world of its characters with rich lyricism, Douglas Stuart’s Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the meaning of masculinity, the push and pull of family, the violence faced by so many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.

An Observer 'Best Debut Novelist of 2020' It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother's sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no' right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place. Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Edouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.

When anarchists attack a painting of the Prime Minister and suggest that the man himself could be next, Scotland Yard have no choice but to call in SHERLOCK HOLMES. It is just the start of an adventure that sees Holmes and Watson on the trail of a centuries- old puzzle, a puzzle that they are not alone in trying to unravel. As the master criminal The Albino closes in on them, not to mention the mysterious Lord of Strange Deaths, Holmes and Watson find themselves in a race to solve the clues and locate England's long-lost treasure.

Autoři této knihy nás srozumitelným a praktickým způsobem seznamují se zásadami výkladu různých biblických textů a zvláště kladou důraz na rozlišování jednotlivých literárních druhů (např. starozákonní vyprávění, mudroslovná literatura, proroctví, podobenství a další). Samostatná kapitola je věnována novozákonnímu apokalyptickému spisu - knize Zjevení. "Mnozí lidé cítí, že by měli číst Bibli, ale když se o to pokoušejí, zjišťují, že narážejí na nesčetné překážky. Podobně jako etiopský dvořan, který se na cestě domů z Jeruzaléma snažil pochopit knihu proroka Izaiáše, docházejí k poznání, že bez pomoci někoho druhého tomu, co čtou, neporozumějí. A právě těmto lidem je určena tato kniha. F. Bruce emeritní profesor biblické kritiky a exegeze na univerzitě v Manchesteru

Veľká časť knihy je venovaná rozborom jednotlivých žánrov Biblie (starozákonné príbehy, múdroslovná literatúra, žalmy, podobenstvá, proroctvá, atď.) pričom sú na konkrétnych textoch vysvetlené základné princípy porozumenia a výkladu daného žánru. I keď jazyk knihy je veľmi prístupný a teda vhodný aj pre začiatočníkov, aj kazatelia a teológovia nájdu v nej množstvo inšpirácie a zaujímavých informácií a časom sa pre nich stane nepostrádateľným pomocníkom pri každodennom štúdiu.

Veľká časť knihy je venovaná rozborom jednotlivých žánrov Biblie (starozákonné príbehy, múdroslovná literatúra, žalmy, podobenstvá, proroctvá, atď.) pričom sú na konkrétnych textoch vysvetlené základné princípy porozumenia a výkladu daného žánru. I keď jazyk knihy je veľmi prístupný a teda vhodný aj pre začiatočníkov, aj kazatelia a teológovia nájdu v nej množstvo inšpirácie a zaujímavých informácií a časom sa pre nich stane nepostrádateľným pomocníkom pri každodennom štúdiu.