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  • Iota
    Charles Gidley Wheeler
    Iota is the acronymic name given to God-or-Nature. It stands for the Infinite One which is conceived under the Two Aspects of thought and matter. Following the 17th century philosopher Benedict Spinoza, from whose works he quotes extensively, Wheeler shows that dualism of any sort, whether theological, philosophical or scientific, always leads to contradiction, division, and co...
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  • IOTA God as Nature, Nature as God
    Charles Gidley Wheeler
    Iota is the acronymic name given to God-or-Nature. It stands for the Infinite One which is conceived under the Two Aspects of thought and matter. Following the 17th century philosopher Benedict Spinoza, Wheeler shows that dualism of any sort, whether theological, philosophical or scientific, always leads to contradiction, division and conflict, and that regarding ourselves as p...
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    17,30 €

  • Seven Stories from Blackwood’s Magazine
    Charles Gidley Wheeler
    These seven stories, written between 1965 and 1975 while the author was serving in the Royal Navy, take the reader on travels across the world, from the old Portuguese colony of Macão in China to the sardine fishing grounds off Lisbon; from the island of Lamu on the east coast of Kenya to the cockpit of an Airborne Early Warning aircraft on patrol off Mozambique, and from Pulau...
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  • A Good Boy Tomorrow
    Charles Gidley Wheeler
    First published in 1907, Father and Son recounted Edmund Gosse’sfundamentalist upbringing in the Plymouth Brethren. A hundredyears on, A Good Boy Tomorrow tells a similar story.Wheeler grew up in the idyllic surroundings of the Lake District ofnorthern England. But when he was eight years old, his father returnedfrom war service and the family moved south to their cramped home ...
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  • The Crying of the Wind
    Charles Gidley Wheeler
    ’.What need have you to dread the monstrous crying of wind?’-W.B. Yeats Buenos Aires, 1939: Anna McGeoch arrives in Argentina from Scotland to join her brother and his wife and work on a Christian mission among the Matacos Indians. But within hours of her arrival she learns that her brother has been killed. Anna stays on in Buenos Aires and is welcomed into the glamorous lifest...
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    17,73 €

  • The Fighting Spirit
    Charles Gidley Wheeler
    Summer, 1939: While Britain and France teeter on the brink of war with Nazi Germany, Griff Wilmot, a cavalry officer turned schoolmaster, discovers that his French wife Simone is having an affair with Lieutenant Commander Archie Trendle-Home, his closest friend. On the outbreak of war, with his home life crumbling, Griff goes back into uniform and takes command of a section of ...
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    22,17 €

  • The Believer
    Charles Gidley Wheeler
    In the early 19th century, Blair Harvey comes to Exeter with a degree from Oxford, and high hopes of forging a career in the legal profession. But a brush at Exeter Fair with an Irish prostitute pricks his conscience, and he seeks spiritual refuge with Dr. Percy Brougham, a high Church Anglican who is flirting with Roman Catholicism. Blair sets his sights on Brougham’s independ...
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    16,96 €

  • The Raging of the Sea
    Charles Gidley Wheeler
    Steven Jannaway, the son of war hero Frank Jannaway, joins the Royal Navy as a cadet and struggles up the promotional ladder, moving from the bridge of a destroyer in the Mediterranean to the pilot’s cockpit of a carrier-borne aircraft flying night patrols over the Malacca Strait. Urging him along the way is an admiral’s daughter, Julietta, who is the perfect wife for an ambiti...
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    20,59 €

  • Armada
    Charles Gidley Wheeler
    Abandoned by his father to drown off the coast of Spain, Tristram Pascoe’s life is saved by Sara, who is in a marriage of convenience to a Portuguese nobleman. Suspected of heresy, Sara is brought before the Grand Inquisitor and risks being burnt as a witch to help Tristram escape. Tristram is pressed into service as an English spy, and travels to Cadiz and Lisbon, where the Sp...
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    18,44 €

  • Jannaway’s Mutiny
    Charles Gidley Wheeler
    Jannaway’s Mutiny is a novel of love and tragedy that reveals the secretcauses of the British Navy’s most catastrophic mutiny.In September 1931, the sailors of the Royal Navy’s Atlantic Fleet staged a mass mutiny at Invergordon, Scotland. In this historical fiction account, Charles Gidley Wheeler tells the life story of Frank Jannaway, a British sailor who finds himself at the ...
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    14,75 €

  • The River Running by
    Charles Gidley Wheeler
    The British community of Portugal in the nineteen-thirties welcomes Ruth, the bride of wine-taster Bobby Teape, into a privileged and wealthy world of rolling hills, great rivers and endless vineyards. But the Teapes’ marriage is overshadowed by guilt, because Natalia, the housemaid Ruth hires, is the girl Bobby once raped. In the post-war turbulence of Portugal under Salazar’s...
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    19,93 €

  • Basic Flying Instruction
    Charles Gidley Wheeler
    BASIC FLYING INSTRUCTION'Plato compares the human being to a winged chariot driven by a rational charioteer and drawn by two horses, one spirited but amenable to discipline, the other self-indulgent and reluctant to obey commands even when they are accompanied by the whip.'Based on his recent philosophy degree course at the University of Durham, novelist, screenwriter, and ex-N...
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