Non-Fiction

Cardinal Hume was a much loved man. Those who met him know why they found him lovable. This very personal book seeks to show and to explain to those who...

An unprecedented testament to the enduring power of faith and devotion, this inspiring and sumptuously illustrated work showcases the luminous writings of his Holiness on God, love and humanity. John...

Basil Hume, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, was an outstanding and much-loved religious leader. His death at the age of 76 saddened not only the Catholic Church but the whole Christian...

Like everything human, it started with sex. In 1955, fourteen-year-old Tony found himself entangled with a married Catholic woman. When the woman's husband learnt of their involvement, he whisked Tony...

"...clearly a must for all libraries...and for all readers interested in spirituality."Religious Studies ReviewJohn Cassian: Conferences translation and preface by Colm Luibheidintroduction by Owen Chadwick "I f you wish to...

15 years into his papacy, and on the eve of a new millennium, John Paul II brings to an accessible level the great theological questions of our lives. He goes...

This is a long established bestselling and highly regarded book on the Lion list and is now substantially revised and rewritten with many new articles. New contributors are introduced and...

As the spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has captured the attention and admiration of the world through his wisdom. This jewel of a book offers his...

No other religion in the modern world has come under such close scrutiny or been viewed as a source of so much harm to our civilization as Islam. It is...

This book unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. MacCulloch considers Judaeo-Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which were a...

In our age we are confronted with two interconnected crises; the coronavirus pandemic and the ecological crisis. Both require urgent action, but they also require a sense of purpose which...

One woman's investigation of the role of women in the Christian Church since its inception, as she counters the Roman Catholic church's argument for excluding them from the priesthoodDetails the...

In this clear and authoritative guide, Lavinia and Dan Cohn-Sherbok concisely examine the Jewish faith and its practices and explore what it really means to be a Jew today. From...

On its first appearance, The Screwtape Letters was immediately recognized as a milestone in the history of popular theology and has since sold more than a quarter of a million...

The story of Tenzin Palmo, an Englishwoman, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End, who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas...

This book approaches the Acts of the Apostles, not just as a history book that gives us information about the life and mission of the early Church, but also as...

In his characteristically endearing and informal style, His Holiness the Dalai Lama examines the nature of the human mind and emphasises the need to transform it if we want to...

The New Jerusalem Bible is recognised as one of today's most accurate, clear and modern translations, the fruit of long collaboration between leading biblical scholars. This handy-sized Pocket Edition presents...

Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition--a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined...

Learn about the primal beliefs to the world's great faiths in The Religions Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple...

'Think Big, Act Small' is about collaboration. Its origins are in a process which began with a parish mission in the year 2000, leading to a parish survey, a parish...

A new rendering of classic Christian beliefs for the 21st Century.John Drane's acclaimed The McDonaldization of the Church identified the catastrophic trend of western churches offering uninventive, pre-packaged worship to...

"Encountering Kali" explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen - the Hindu goddess Kali. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual...