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Latest & Forthcoming Releases
Theology & Religion
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Pre-order now! Consecrated Celibacy: A Fresh Look at an Ancient Calling
Paperback £14.99 Special pre-order price!
A unique and engaging resource for all who feel drawn to explore a calling to consecrated celibacy and know that life in a traditional religious order is not for them.
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Living Culture, Living Christ: On Becoming Fully Human
Paperback £14.99
Alan M. Suggate offers a diagnosis of the root failings of our culture and commends a humanism centred on persons and grounded in an integralist approach to the Christian faith.
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Keeping Time: Time, Liturgy and Christian Discipleship
Paperback £16.99
Aimed at clergy and laypeople, Keeping Time gives a fresh account of the liturgical year and how it shapes our lives as Christian disciples.
History
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Northumberland: A Guide
Hardback
£30.00£25.00
A fully illustrated guidebook to Northumberland, including a gazeteer, maps and more than 200 photographs
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Alfred Hope Patten and the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham
Paperback £19.99
The definitive history of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham and its founder Alfred Hope Patten
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The Roman Catholic Bishops of Hexham and Newcastle
Paperback £14.99
A chronological survey of the Bishops of Hexham and Newcastle from 1850 to the present day.
Fiction & Poetry
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Joy and Felicity
Paperback
£12.99£9.99
What happens when everything you thought you knew about your family turns out to be a lie? As two sisters meet at their dying mother’s bedside, they discover a bond between them that runs far deeper than they imagined. Will the truth about secrets buried in their past finally set them free?
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Not of This Worldview: Poetry for the Kingdom Among Us
Paperback £9.99
In poems that range from loose informality to tight structure, and from the humorous to the sombre, Richard Briggs seeks to let poetry open our eyes and ears to the strange and elusive work of God among us.
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A New Heaven and a New Earth: St Cuthbert and the Conquest of the North
Paperback
£12.99£9.99
Caught between the Northumbrian rebels and their brutal new Norman masters, the Community of St Cuthbert at Durham is struggling to survive. The final novel in the Cuthbert trilogy, set at the time of the Harrying of the North, tells the story of the survival of the shrine and the foundation of Durham Cathedral.
Living Culture, Living Christ?
GUEST BLOG: author Alan Suggate talks us through the thinking behind his new book, Living Culture, Living Christ. For four decades our culture has experienced deepening division and distrust, made all the worse because we are scarcely aware of our predicament. Impersonal science (including the …
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Social Distancing and Leveling Up
GUEST BLOG: Graham Turner, author of God’s People and the Seduction of Empire and Alternative Collects, challenges us to help close the gap between the rich and the poor. For those of us who live south of the border, the sound of a thick Glaswegian accent is as alien as it is ra…
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Counter Cultural Church
GUEST BLOG: Timothy Gorringe, author of Keeping Time: Time, Liturgy and Christian Discipleship, discusses what a truly Christ-like Church would look like. Simon Fairlie, founder of the Tinkers Bubble off grid settlement, of The Land magazine, and of the revival of scything festivals i…
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