Biography: Religious & Spiritual

Your favourite occupation? Pondering and musing. Your idea of happiness? Pondering and musing. Your most extreme aversion? Pedantry and a sense of ...

In Roland Allen: A Theology of Mission, a companion work with Roland Allen: A Missionary Life, Steven Richard Rutt completes a portrait of Roland A...

How did a Catholic priest who died a failure become one of the worlds greatest poets? Discover in his own words the struggle for faith that gave bi...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a highly original and engaging appraisal of Franz Kafkas life, work, legacy, and thoughtThe work of a gr...

Wisdom at the Crossroads is an introduction to the life and thought of the gifted Jesuit priest, theologian, author and educator, Michael Paul Gall...

Jerome Gratian has been the great unknown figure in the Reform undertaken by Teresa of Avila. Historically the outstanding figure of John of the Cr...

Gershom Scholem, the great humanist thinker and founder of modern Kabalah, is all but forgotten today. But here, in a biography as daring and inqui...

In this spiritual biography, Patricia de Menezes offers her witness to the revelations given her by Jesus over three decades. These centre on the n...

Call the Midwife' compellingly transposed from the East End of London to the Borneo jungle! Newcastle 1959. Wendy Grey, a young district nurse, re...

In 1897 Tom Cochrane, a young, newly-qualified Scottish medical missionary, arrived with his wife in Chaoyang, Inner Mongolia. For three years he l...

On March 4, 1681, King Charles II granted William Penn a charter for a new American colony. Pennsylvania was to be, in its founder's words, a bold ...

What makes Blythswood Care the organisation that it is today? The answer lies in the personal stories told in this book. They range from Scotland...

Brother Andrew was no stranger to adventure and intrigue in fact, he craved it.    As a young lad, he was forever getting into mischief, and eve...

John Bunyans life was an exciting one. Thats what he had wanted as a young man. He had left the security of his fathers workshop to join the Parlia...

Based on personal knowledge and intimate interviews with his subject, as well as access to W.J. Stein's archive of letters and documents, Tautz's b...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019****SHORTLISTED FOR THE CATHOLIC HERALD BOOK AWARDS 2019**A life of St Francis in verseThroughout he...

Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-84) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal. A religious leader and social ref...

'Impressive in its clarity this biography [is] the most detailed and accurate to date. Written in an engaging prose, [it] ends with an insightful p...