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Latest & Forthcoming Releases
Theology & Religion
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Pre-order now! Saints and Holy Places of Yorkshire: A Pilgrims' Guide to God's Own County
Paperback £9.99 Special pre-order price!
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-103-3A unique guide for visitors to the many pilgrimage sites in Yorkshire and the holy people who have been associated with these places.
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Building Bridges Not Walls: An Engineer's Guide to Theology
Paperback £12.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-094-4An engineer’s reflection on how Christians can learn to do theology and put their faith into practice in the modern world.
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God's Tent Pitched Among Us: A New Pattern for Rural Church Mission
Paperback £12.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-097-5How can small rural churches respond with confidence to the opportunities and challenges for mission and ministry? As the Church focuses more and more on growth in urban areas, God’s Tent shows that flourishing exists throughout the Church, and particularly in small and rural contexts.
History
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Pre-order now! Saints and Holy Places of Yorkshire: A Pilgrims' Guide to God's Own County
Paperback £9.99 Special pre-order price!
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-103-3A unique guide for visitors to the many pilgrimage sites in Yorkshire and the holy people who have been associated with these places.
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Artistic Duplicity: The Fiction and Poetry of Juliana Horatia Ewing
Hardback
£40.00£35.00
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-063-0A new appraisal of the life and work of Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885) as a writer of fiction and poetry for both children and adults.
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Queen Victoria’s Archbishops of Canterbury
Paperback
£19.99£17.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-056-2Six pen portraits of the Archbishops of Canterbury during Queen Victoria's reign show how the Church of England and the Anglican Communion became what they are today.
Fiction & Poetry
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Place of Repose: St Cuthbert’s Last Journey
Paperback
£12.99£9.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-078-4A tale of violence and intrigue, revenge and reconciliation – and of true love lost and found. Set in the ninth century at the time of the Viking invasions, Place of Repose follows the flight of St Cuthbert's monks from Lindisfarne and their turbulent journey in search of a new home for the saint.
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All Hail the Glorious Night (and other Christmas poems): The Complete Christmas Poetry of Kevin Carey
Paperback
£19.99£16.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-051-7The complete collection of Kevin Carey's Christmas poetry in one volume, illustrated by Kevin Sheehan.
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Searching for a Silent God
Paperback
£8.99£7.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-038-8A thoughtful and engaging companion for all who experience times of spiritual crisis. Sarah Parkinson describes her experience of a time when God, on whose presence she had always relied, suddenly seemed to be absent from her life.
The Christian Booksellers dispatching books during Coronavirus Lockdown
Christian bookshops are fighting for their survival. Now more than ever they need us to shop with them. Despite having to close their doors, many are keeping their ministry alive by offering home delivery during the Coronavirus lockdown. Sacristy Press is compiling a list of the bricks-a…
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Holy Ground and Common Ground
GUEST BLOG: Nicholas Henshall, Dean of Chelmsford, reflects on what the COVID-19 lockdown has meant for him and the work of his cathedral. Recently, on my daily exercise walk, I bumped into Richard. Richard has been living rough for most of the time I have known him, and the Cathedral is a plac…
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The Empires of Things
A poem by Catherine Bird, inspired by God’s People and the Seduction of Empire by Graham Turner and written during the COVID-19 pandemic. We finally see the empires of things for what they are; purveyors of half truths at best – viral, clogging the lungs of those sma…
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