Biographies

A Better Ambition, Confessions of a Faithful Liberal, By Tim Farron. ‘I am passionate about my country and angry at the mendacity that has led to t...

A Book of Martyrs. Devotions to the Martyrs of England, Scotland and Wales. Veneration of martyrs is one of the earliest devotions in the Church. F...

A Year with the English Saints. This booklet offers brief biographies of the saints of the English calendar as well as suggestions of places to vis...

Alfred Hope Patten. The Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham, by Michael Yelton. October 2006 saw the 75th anniversary of the restoration of the Shrine...

Alvaro del Portillo. The Power of Humility, by Helena Scott and Ethel Tolansky. The extraordinary life of a man who went from being a successful en...

Antonio Rosmini (1797 – 1855) is a truly remarkable and controversial figure in 19th century Europe, in the aftermath of revolutions and Enlightenm...

Trembling on the Edge of Eternity. Fr Augustine Hoey  - A Biographic Memoir. This volume, now in its second edition, tells the remarkable story of ...

Augustine of Canterbury. Leadership, Mission and Legacy, by Robin Mackintosh. Augustine's mission to Roman Britain in 597 at the behest of Pope Gre...

Augustine of Hippo. St Augustine was a bishop, is a father of the Church and a Doctor of the Church, but above all is a man with an extraordinary s...

From Burma to Rome. On Palm Sunday 2013, in St Mary's Cathedral, Rangoon, Burma, Benedict Rogers was baptised, confirmed and received into the Chur...

Message of St. Bernadette. Christian suffering and Bernadette of Lourdes. Mgr Vernon Johnson’s classic text on what Bernadette has to teach us abou...

This Restless Prelate: Bishop Baines. This is first biography of one of the most controversial and colourful bishops of 19th-century Catholic Engla...

Brigid of Ireland. The saint and the goddess, By Fr John J Ó Ríordáin CSsR. This booklet gives a refreshing new view of Ireland's second patron sai...

Brother Roger and Taize. A New Springtime. The famous ecumenical community and the life of its founder. Taizé in eastern France is a world-famous c...

Saint Bruno. The Carthusian. St Bruno was born in Cologne around 1030. He studied at the university in Rheims, where he later taught, and was Recto...

Cardinal Basil Hume, A Pilgrim’s Search for God. This timely volume marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Cardinal Basil Hume (1923-1999), Ben...

Cardinal Hinsley Priest and Patriot. In this major biography of Cardinal Arthur Hinsley, James Hagerty traces the life and ministry of one of the m...

Cardinal John Carmel Heenan. John Carmel Heenan’s ambition was to be a parish priest yet he became Archbishop of Westminster and a Cardinal of the ...

John Henry Newman His Inner Life, by Father Zeno, OFM. Using Newman’s letters, diaries, published and unpublished sermons the author draws together...

Blessed John Henry Newman. A Richly Illustrated Portrait. Many may wonder why Newman was beatified, what it was that made him holy? The authors ind...

John Henry Newman: Snapdragon in the Wall. Venerated throughout the world, Newman’s many gifts, and his life of exemplary holiness continue to fasc...

John Henry Newman, His Life & Work. This sympathetic study combines biography with a critical assessment of Newman’s achievements. It takes us ...

John Henry Newman: A Very English Saint, by Peter M. Chisnall. As the sanctity of John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801–1890) finally receives formal re...

Cardinal Manning & the Birth of Catholic Social Teaching. A new re-telling of the life of the great Victorian Cardinal. In this new biography, ...