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• Sink or Swim: Catholicism in Sixties Britain through John Ryan's Cartoons

  by Alana Harris and Isabel Ryan, and John Ryan (illustrator)

  Paperback £12.99
  ISBN: 978-1-78959-138-5

  Cartoons by John Ryan, better known as the creator of Captain Pugwash, provide a personal portrait of the extraordinary ups and downs of religion in the Sixties—encompassing the machinations of popes and cardinals, the testimony of expert witnesses, runaway priests, radical reformists and lay protest movements.

  

• Saints and Holy Places of Yorkshire: A Pilgrims' Guide to God's Own County

  by Gavin Wakefield

  Paperback £9.99
  ISBN: 978-1-78959-103-3

  A unique guide for visitors to the many pilgrimage sites in Yorkshire and the holy people who have been associated with these places.

  

• 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.

  

• Suffering and Glory: The Church from the Apostles to Constantine

  by Patrick Whitworth and Richard Chartres (foreword)

  Paperback/Hardback £19.99
  ISBN: 978-1-910519-89-9

  The 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.

  

• 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.