Biographies

Elizabeth Hayes (1823–94) was a woman whose personal life and achievements are of significance in both British and North American religious, social...

Elizabeth of the Trinity, her life and spirituality. “A vibrant prophet of the presence of God” is how Pope John Paul II described Elizabeth of the...

Elizabeth Prout: 1820–1864. A Religious Life for Industrial England. revised edition of this classic biography of a remarkable woman, a heroine of ...

English Catholic Heroes. A book to inspire Catholics of all ages and to inform non-Catholics of the impressive gallery of England's Catholic heroes...

English Catholic Heroines. In this book a group of distinguished authors with varying interests champion the achievements of twenty-three seminal f...

The English Jesuits from Campion to Martindale. Abridged and edited by Rodger Charles, SJ. Despite the rigorous and continued persecution of the Ca...

Fathers and Anglicans helps us to re-appropriate a vital part of the Anglican approach to the living reality of Christ.  This book deals with the v...

Fr Alexander Men - Martyr of Atheism. Father Alexander Men (1935–1990), a priest assassinated after the fall of communism, is a highly regarded fig...

Francis and Thérèse. Great “Little” Saints. God, the Almighty, chose for himself as the place of his appearance what was the very smallest and most...

St. Francis for Today. Francis Bernadone - who was he? None other than St Francis of Assisi, a man with a decided message for our time. He lived in...

Frederick William Faber. A Great Servant of God. A comprehensive picture of the life and spiritual development of the founder of the London Oratory...

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...

George Mackay Brown. No Separation. The poet, novelist and dramatist, is seen by some as not just Orkney's, but Britain's best twentieth-century po...

George Myers: Pugin’s Builder. George Myers (1803–1875) was one of the mid-nineteenth century's great masterbuilders. From his workshops, first in ...

Father Ignatius Spencer. The Spencers reached the peak of their wealth in the eighteenth century; in the nineteenth century they achieved the comma...

The Indomitable Mr Cotham: Missioner, Convict Chaplain, and Monk. James Ambrose Cotham OSB (1810-1883), a Douai monk of the English Benedictine Con...

Strange Vagabond of God. Life of John Bradburne. John Bradburne’s life was a remarkable spiritual odyssey. After wartime service on the Indian sub-...

St John of Ávila, Doctor of the Church. Discerning your Spiritual Journey. On 7th October 2012, Pope Benedict declared St John of Avila a Doctor of...

Saint Josemaria Escriva and the Origins of Opus Dei. St Josemaría Escrivá, canonized by Pope John Paul II in October 2002, was born in 1902 in the ...

Mr. Wason… I Think. Born in 1867 Leighton Sandy Wason (always known as Sandy) was ordained priest in 1898. In this well written and engaging biogra...

Louis and Zélie Martin. The Seed and The Root of The Little Flower. The canonization of Louis and Zélie Martin, the parents of St Thérèse of Lisieu...

Mary Tudor, England’s first Queen Regnant, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time’. Although several books on Queen Mary have been published in recent year...

Meister Eckhart. The Man From Whom God Hid Nothing. First published in 1988 Ursula Fleming’s, highly praised book brought the work of this great Rh...

Michel de Certeau or Union in Difference. An important introduction to the thought of Michel de Certeau (1925–1986). It emphasizes with great sensi...