Books with author S.P. Laurie

"Each time I think this night reaches its lowest point I'm mistaken. I stop and let the twisted truth sink in: it's only going to get worse."The world is drowning.Tonight everyone in the disappearing Middlelands gathers in their homes to watch an announcement from the Upperlands. One member of each family will be taken to safety behind the impenetrable fence but, to prevent an uprising, everyone else must be dead before morning. The decision: sacrifice yourself or those you love.Kill or be killed.For fifteen year old Theia, giving up on her family is out of the question so she has twelve hours to stop the horror from descending on her house. But as the screams around the neighbourhood close in, and with nowhere left to run, she cannot escape the unthinkable fact: only one of them can survive the night. --P.S. Lurie bursts onto the scene with a young adult dystopian thriller.'We, The Grateful Few' and 'We, The Final Few', the concluding books in The Surge Trilogy are also out now.

An enigmatic manuscript. A secret lost for 2,000 years. The discovery that shines new light on Christianity.Jesus said: “I have cast fire upon the world…”The Thomas Code uncovers and explains the mathematical secret of the Gospel of Thomas. This fascinating book takes the reader on a journey of discovery involving an ancient mathematical code, sayings of Jesus that are riddles we must solve, and a Gospel whose structure is more advanced than anything else known from antiquity. The book demonstrates how this extraordinary Gospel is earlier than the four gospels in the bible.The Gospel of Thomas was esteemed among early Christians. But after it was declared heretical by the church, all copies were destroyed. Long thought to have been lost, it was recovered in 1945 from a codex buried in a jar in the Egyptian desert. Unlike the New Testament gospels, Thomas is a list of sayings spoken by Jesus. Some are familiar, while others are strange and mysterious. Even odder is the bizarre way in which the sayings are organized, seemingly without any rhyme or reason. Scholars have searched for a structure, but nothing has been found. Until now!The Thomas Code shows how the Gospel is organized using a mathematical formula and how the clues to this formula have been hiding in plain sight. The abundant evidence is set out simply and clearly with the help of diagrams. Remarkably, the Thomas Code is also the key to the miracle of the loaves and fishes and enables us to understand this miracle for the first time.The Thomas Code shows a Gospel that delights in paradoxes and riddles. But this is not all. The Gospel of Thomas is structured to reach a climax at which a secret will be told. That secret is a shocking revelation about the nature of Jesus himself.Includes a complete translation of the Gospel of Thomas organized and renumbered according to the Thomas Code.S.P. Laurie studied mathematics at the University of Oxford and is the author of The Rock and the Tower.

Jesus said: "I have cast fire upon the world..." An enigmatic manuscript. A secret lost for 2,000 years. The discovery that shines new light on Christianity. The Thomas Code uncovers and explains the mathematical secret of the Gospel of Thomas. This fascinating book takes the reader on a journey of discovery involving an ancient mathematical code, sayings of Jesus that are riddles we must solve, and a Gospel whose structure is more advanced than anything else known from antiquity. The book demonstrates how this extraordinary Gospel is earlier than the four gospels in the bible. The Gospel of Thomas was esteemed among early Christians. But after it was declared heretical by the church, all copies were destroyed. Long thought to have been lost, it was recovered in 1945 from a codex buried in a jar in the Egyptian desert. Unlike the New Testament gospels, Thomas is a list of sayings spoken by Jesus. Some are familiar, while others are strange and mysterious. Even odder is the bizarre way in which the sayings are organized, seemingly without any rhyme or reason. Scholars have searched for a structure, but nothing has been found. Until now! The Thomas Code shows how the Gospel is organized using a mathematical formula and how the clues to this formula have been hiding in plain sight. The abundant evidence is set out simply and clearly with the help of diagrams. Remarkably, the Thomas Code is also the key to the miracle of the loaves and fishes and enables us to understand this miracle for the first time. The Thomas Code shows a Gospel that delights in paradoxes and riddles. But this is not all. The Gospel of Thomas is structured to reach a climax at which a secret will be told. That secret is a shocking revelation about the nature of Jesus himself. Includes a complete translation of the Gospel of Thomas organized and renumbered according to the Thomas Code. S.P. Laurie studied mathematics at the University of Oxford and is the author of The Rock and the Tower.

The revolutionary book that will change the way you think about Christianity.How is it possible for Jesus to be the Son of God? Why is it that only Christianity has a founder who is also the subject of the religion? And if Jesus were really a peasant preacher from Galilee, then why do all the earliest sources speak of him as the divine saviour and as God himself?Conventional scholars, locked into the failed paradigm of the historical Jesus, have no answers to these questions. This book develops a radical new approach by looking at how new religions form. The typical pattern is that a shaman founder brings revelations from a divine figure, a “visitor from heaven”. The shaman paradigm applies this model to Christianity, showing that Jesus must have been the “visitor from heaven”, crucified in the distant past, but resurrected and reborn spiritually through the shaman.The Rock and the Tower is the search for the identity of the shaman. It uses the earliest sources to look for the signal of historical truth that has been lost under the noise of storytelling and theological elaboration. It shows how the supposedly heretical Gospel of Thomas (originally called the Gospel of the Twin) represents the original Christianity and how it was used and abused by all four of the New Testament Gospels.The conclusions are extraordinary. The shaman was a woman called Mary who has always been the object of adoration by Christians. The Gospels turned the shaman into the fictitious characters of Mary the Magdalene and the Virgin Mary, and she is also the mysterious person called Cephas in Paul’s letters.This book uncovers the story of the remarkable woman who was both the Rock and the Tower, from her first spiritual encounter with Jesus, through her role as “mother” to the movement, and her eventual martyrdom at the orders of Nero, the Antichrist. It shows that Christianity originated as an esoteric sect who believed that each person had a spirit “twin”, a heavenly wife or husband. The Christ came to redeem the twin from the fallen angels who were believed to rule the world, and to reunite the person into a new spiritual whole, the kingdom of heaven. And the spiritual twin of Mary was Christ himself.The Rock and the Tower is the first volume in the Shaman Paradigm series.

The revolutionary book that will change the way you think about Christianity. How is it possible for Jesus to be the Son of God? Why is it that only Christianity has a founder who is also the subject of the religion? And if Jesus were really a peasant preacher from Galilee, then why do all the earliest sources speak of him as the divine savior and as God himself? Conventional scholars, locked into the failed paradigm of the historical Jesus, have no answers to these questions. This book develops a radical new approach by looking at how new religions form. The typical pattern is that a shaman founder brings revelations from a divine figure, a “visitor from heaven”. The shaman paradigm applies this model to Christianity, showing that Jesus must have been the “visitor from heaven”, crucified in the distant past, but resurrected and reborn spiritually through the shaman. The Rock and the Tower is the search for the identity of the shaman. It uses the earliest sources to look for the signal of historical truth that has been lost under the noise of storytelling and theological elaboration. It shows how the supposedly heretical Gospel of Thomas (originally called the Gospel of the Twin) represents the original Christianity and how it was used and abused by all four of the New Testament Gospels. The conclusions are extraordinary. The shaman was a woman called Mary who has always been the object of adoration by Christians. The Gospels turned the shaman into the fictitious characters of Mary the Magdalene and the Virgin Mary, and she is also the mysterious person called Cephas in Paul’s letters. This book uncovers the story of the remarkable woman who was both the Rock and the Tower, from her first spiritual encounter with Jesus, through her role as “mother” to the movement, and her eventual martyrdom at the orders of Nero, the Antichrist. It shows that Christianity originated as an esoteric sect who believed that each person had a spirit “twin”, a heavenly wife or husband. The Christ came to redeem the twin from the fallen angels who were believed to rule the world, and to reunite the person into a new spiritual whole, the kingdom of heaven. And the spiritual twin of Mary was Christ himself. The Rock and the Tower is the first volume in the Shaman Paradigm series.

‘I take in all of their faces, a crew of injured, scared people. “People are trying to kill us and we’ve been forced to retaliate. At some point the fight will come to us and now we have to make a stand. Hate it or not, surviving no longer means letting just anyone live over us, however innocent they may be. We’ve risked too much to turn on one another or give up now, and we’ve fought too hard to let others stand in our way. So we fight anyone who wants us dead. It’s our lives or theirs.” As speeches go it might not be the most rousing but it’s enough to convince them of what we need to do to survive: kill or be killed, only this time it’s on a bigger scale.’A year has passed since the events of the Great Cull and, whilst the survivors from the Middlelands continue to adjust to their new lives beyond the Fence, they are still burdened by the ghosts of the people they left behind.But the ever-rising flood threatens any sense of safety they have and, today, the Upperlanders will make a second announcement: a solution that will save civilisation but make what happened last year pale in comparison.It was a drop in the ocean. Now it’s a flood.--The second book in The Surge Trilogy, 'We, The Grateful Few' is the much-anticipated sequel to the 5-star reviewed 'We, The Lucky Few' by P.S. Lurie. Also out now is 'We, The Final Few', concluding The Surge Trilogy.

“I didn’t want war or a single part of this but they’ve killed everyone we ever loved and they need to pay. We’ve talked about this moment for so long and we can’t watch and wait. We need to act now. This time tonight it could all be over.”“One way or another it will be."Six months have passed since the second cull, during which time the few Middlelanders to survive have struggled with the shocking revelation that they learnt on top of the Fence. Now, President Callister has instigated the last part of her plan for a new world order, which will threaten all of their lives by the end of today.Despite their odds, the Middlelanders must rise against her powerful army. The dangerous game they face is the same as before: kill or be killed, but the consequence of losing this final time will be extermination. Hope is no longer an option.--‘We, The Final Few’ is the third and concluding book in The Surge Trilogy, following ‘We, The Lucky Few’ and ‘We, The Grateful Few’.Also currently available by P.S. Lurie is ‘The Eleventh Labour’, a mystery thriller set in Greece, the first in the Chace Hellis adventure series.

It’s not enough that Haylee struggles with Autism Spectrum Disorder and trying to measure up to her beautiful sister Michaela, but now her parents are getting divorced – and she’s pretty sure it’s her fault. When mom moves them across five states to Salem, Massachusetts, Haylee takes refuge in hiking and her art, but will the solace of a hidden cave near the shore become her ultimate haven… or her final resting place?

It’s not enough that Haylee struggles with Autism Spectrum Disorder and trying to measure up to her beautiful sister Michaela, but now her parents are getting divorced – and she’s pretty sure it’s her fault. When mom moves them across five states to Salem, Massachusetts, Haylee takes refuge in hiking and her art, but will the solace of a hidden cave near the shore become her ultimate haven… or her final resting place?

“I didn’t want war or a single part of this but they’ve killed everyone we ever loved and they need to pay. We’ve talked about this moment for so long and we can’t watch and wait. We need to act now. This time tonight it could all be over.” “One way or another it will be." Six months have passed since the second cull, during which time the few Middlelanders to survive have struggled with the shocking revelation that they learnt on top of the Fence. Now, President Callister has instigated the last part of her plan for a new world order, which will threaten all of their lives by the end of today. Despite their odds, the Middlelanders must rise against her powerful army. The dangerous game they face is the same as before: kill or be killed, but the consequence of losing this final time will be extermination. Hope is no longer an option. -- ‘We, The Final Few’ is the third and concluding book in The Surge Trilogy, following ‘We, The Lucky Few’ and ‘We, The Grateful Few’. Also currently available by P.S. Lurie is ‘The Eleventh Labour’, a mystery thriller set in Greece, the first in the Chace Hellis adventure series.

‘I take in all of their faces, a crew of injured, scared people. “People are trying to kill us and we’ve been forced to retaliate. At some point the fight will come to us and now we have to make a stand. Hate it or not, surviving no longer means letting just anyone live over us, however innocent they may be. We’ve risked too much to turn on one another or give up now, and we’ve fought too hard to let others stand in our way. So we fight anyone who wants us dead. It’s our lives or theirs.” As speeches go it might not be the most rousing but it’s enough to convince them of what we need to do to survive: kill or be killed, only this time it’s on a bigger scale.’ A year has passed since the events of the Great Cull and, whilst the survivors from the Middlelands continue to adjust to their new lives beyond the Fence, they are still burdened by the ghosts of the people they left behind. But the ever-rising flood threatens any sense of safety they have and, today, the Upperlanders will make a second announcement: a solution that will save civilisation but make what happened last year pale in comparison. It was a drop in the ocean. Now it’s a flood. -- ‘We, The Grateful Few’ is the second book in The Surge Trilogy, following ‘We, The Lucky Few’ and concluding with ‘We, The Final Few’. Also currently available by P.S. Lurie is ‘The Eleventh Labour’, a mystery thriller set in Greece, the first in the Chace Hellis adventure series.

"Each time I think this night reaches its lowest point I'm mistaken. I stop and let the twisted truth sink in: it's only going to get worse." The world is drowning. Tonight everyone in the disappearing Middlelands gathers in their homes to watch an announcement from the Upperlands. One member of each family will be taken to safety behind the impenetrable fence but, to prevent an uprising, everyone else must be dead before morning. The decision: sacrifice yourself or those you love. Kill or be killed. For fifteen year old Theia, giving up on her family is out of the question so she has twelve hours to stop the horror from descending on her house. But as the screams around the neighbourhood close in, and with nowhere left to run, she cannot escape the unthinkable fact: only one of them can survive the night. -- ‘We, The Lucky Few’ is the first book in The Surge Trilogy, concluding with ‘We, The Grateful Few’ and ‘We, The Final Few’. Also currently available by P.S. Lurie is ‘The Eleventh Labour’, a mystery thriller set in Greece, the first in the Chace Hellis adventure series.