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Intriguing accounts of history, with books to entertain both young and old readers alike. Ever wondered what life was really like in a medieval monastery, or how the brave soldiers from the DLI liberated the Belsen concentration camp? Discover Durham with beautiful paintings and illustrations, and the true story behind the corpse of North East England’s best-loved saint!

• Artistic Duplicity: The Fiction and Poetry of Juliana Horatia Ewing

  by William B. Dillingham

  Hardback £40.00 £35.00
  ISBN: 978-1-78959-063-0

  A 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.

  

• Queen Victoria’s Archbishops of Canterbury

  by Michael Chandler

  Paperback £19.99 £17.99
  ISBN: 978-1-78959-056-2

  Six 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.

  

• Captain Gray's Houses: A History of Sion Row, Twickenham

  by Robert Shepherd

  Hardback (full colour) £60.00
  ISBN: 978-1-78959-000-5

  The 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.

  

• The Old Rectory: The Story of the English Parsonage

  by Anthony Jennings and Clive Aslet (foreword)

  Hardback £40.00 £35.00
  ISBN: 978-1-910519-51-6

  A “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.

  

• A Brief History of End Time: Prophecy and Apocalypse, then and now

  by Paula Clifford

  Paperback £14.99
  ISBN: 978-1-910519-37-0

  Why has the end of time exercised such strong fascination over the human imagination? In this entertaining and thorough exploration of end-time ideas and beliefs, Dr Paula Clifford reaches some thoughtful and surprising conclusions about the apocalypse and the end of the world.

  

• Sacred Ibis: The Ornithology of Canon Henry Baker Tristram, DD, FRS

  by W. G. Hale

  Hardback (with colour plates) £60.00
  ISBN: 978-1-910519-13-4

  The ornithological exploits of a remarkable Victorian priest and explorer, Canon Henry Baker Tristram. As a founding member of the BOU, his nickname was “Sacred Ibis”.

  

• Catholic Bishops of Great Britain: A Reference to Roman Catholic Bishops from 1850 to 2015

  by Chris Larsen and Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (foreword)

  Hardback (colour) £60.00
  ISBN: 978-1-910519-25-7

  An essential reference cataloguing the biographical history and significant events of all Roman Catholic diocesan bishops who have been in office since the Restoration of the Catholic Hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850, and in Scotland since the Restoration in 1878.

  

• The Evil that Men Do: Faith, Injustice and the Church

  by Marcus K. Paul and Richard Cunningham (foreword) ★★★★★

  Paperback £14.99 £12.99
  ISBN: 978-1-908381-95-8

  At a time when barbarous acts of terrorism are being committed globally and society ponders whether the perpetrators are legitimate religious adherents, Marcus Paul makes an unflinching and counter-cultural examination of some of the worst periods in the Church’s history.

  

• Mostly Durham: Watercolour Paintings and Drawings of Durham and Beyond

  by Stuart Fisher and Michael Sadgrove (foreword)

  Hardback (colour) £24.99 £20.00
  ISBN: 978-1-910519-06-6

  Award-winning artist Stuart Fisher is considered to be one of the most talented painters of architectural landscapes in Northern England. Mostly Durham contains 75 of his beautiful watercolour paintings and drawings from around the historic city of Durham and beyond.

  

• Liberating Belsen: Remembering the Soldiers of the Durham Light Infantry

  by David Lowther ★★★★

  Paperback £9.99 £8.99
  ISBN: 978-1-908381-91-0

  Nothing could have prepared a small group of soldiers from the Durham Light Infantry for what they discovered in April 1945, less than a month before the end of WWII in Europe. We are told the story of the infantrymen who uncovered the monstrous crimes of the Belsen concentration camp, and the traumatic effect it had on their lives.