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Latest & Forthcoming Releases
Theology & Religion
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Pre-order now! Living Culture, Living Christ: On Becoming Fully Human
Paperback £14.99 Special pre-order price!
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.
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Where Two Rivers Meet: Russian Windows on the Gospel
Paperback £12.99
A unique exploration of the Christian faith through an encounter with Russian Christianity and culture.
History
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Pre-order now! Northumberland: A Guide
Hardback
£30.00£25.00 Special pre-order price!
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.
Justice: Passing Fad or Immovable Truth?
GUEST BLOG: As part of our #ThemeOfTheMonth focus on injustice Marcus K. Paul, author of The Evil that Men Do, discusses historic and modern understandings of injustice. There’s something about injustice that gets to nearly everybody. A sense of justice seems to be at the core of hum…
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Created for bliss?
GUEST BLOG: Nicola Vidamour, author of Where Two Rivers Meet: Russian Windows on the Gospel, discusses opera, war and the anxiety of waiting for her book to be published! Pushkin Hills Image Credit: Yulia Parygina I was expecting to be in Russia last week. I serve as a me…
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Towards a Kinder Church
GUEST BLOG: As part of our #ThemeOfTheMonth focus on injustice Kevin Carey, author of The Judas Church, gives a cry to action and reform for the modern Church. The row in the Church of England over the status of same sex relationships, which has preoccupied us for the past decade, follows a dis…
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