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Latest & Forthcoming Releases
Theology & Religion
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Pre-order now! Gospel of Fulfilment: Exploring the Gospel of Matthew
Paperback £9.99 Special pre-order price!
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-044-9A short, handy guide to the Gospel of Matthew for all who want to explore the first book of the New Testament in group study or on their own.
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Searching for a Silent God
Paperback £8.99
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.
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The Meeting that Changed the World: The Council of Jerusalem AD 49
Paperback £19.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-026-5The Council of Jerusalem, which committed Christianity to offering to gospel to all of humanity, was the most important moment in the history of the Church. Michael Knowles argues that the Church needs to rediscover the Council and its message for the sake of its own credibility today.
History
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Captain Gray's Houses: A History of Sion Row, Twickenham
Hardback (full colour) £80.00
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-000-5The fascinating story of the eighteenth-century houses of Sion Row, Twickenham. In telling the story of these houses and their occupants, a remarkable social history is revealed.
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Suffering and Glory: The Church from the Apostles to Constantine
Paperback/Hardback
£19.99£14.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-910519-89-9The story of the growth of the early Christian community. A rapid, detailed and accurate narrative, full of picturesque scenes drawn directly from contemporary witnesses to the rise of Christianity in the Roman world.
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The Old Rectory: The Story of the English Parsonage
Hardback
£34.99£29.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-910519-51-6A “humdinging page-turner of a book” (The Spectator) that will “give great pleasure” (Country Life). The Old Rectory examines the history of the English parsonage through the centuries, and their many and varied styles of architecture. Explore the lives of famous inhabitants and discover the scandals of neglect.
Fiction & Poetry
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Searching for a Silent God
Paperback £8.99
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.
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Cuthbert of Farne: A novel of Northumbria’s warrior saint
Paperback £9.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-009-8The first historical novel about Cuthbert, much-loved saint of the North, a one-time warrior whose destiny it was to reconcile the warring parties in the early English Church.
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Love in Thin Places: Confessions of a Cathedral Chaplain
Paperback £7.99
ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-78959-014-2A beautiful collection of poems inspired by Durham Cathedral and its saints, visitors and pilgrims.
Historical Novels – Fact or Fiction?
GUEST BLOG: Susan Bell, author of our June #BookOfTheMonth, explains how her novel came about after many years’ searching for the truth and finding conflicting information about the involvement of a Northumbrian woman in the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion in the North East of Engla…
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How I Accidentally Wrote a Book
GUEST BLOG: Sarah Parkinson’s Searching for a Silent God has just been published by Sacristy Press, but here she explains how this book came about almost by accident at a time when God’s silence had become unendurably long… I discovered the writing habit quite early in m…
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June #BookOfTheMonth: A Similar Devotion
Our June #BookOfTheMonth is Susan Bell's A Similar Devotion, a dual narrative set at the dawn of the twenty-first century and in the compelling political landscape of the Jacobite Uprising. This tale shows that while the world may change, love stays just the same. In the North East of E…
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