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By Brian Draper and Howard Green, Canterbury Press, £14.99 In our busy, pressured world, the natural world can be a powerful counter-balance, offering wisdom for the challenges, pain and dislocations of life as well as for beauty, wonder and healing. Soulful Nature encourages you to get outside and make deeper connections with creation and its...

By Malcolm Duncan, Lion Hudson, £10.99 We all walk through grief and loss. It comes in many shapes and forms. As a husband, father, son and a pastor for the past thirty-four years, Malcolm Duncan has experienced loss in many forms. Duncan has seen grief destroy some people, and his own experience of loss and...

By Christina Goodings, Lion Children, £6.99 Crammed with 50 crafts and creative ideas that are perfect for Spring and Easter. Each craft is accompanied by simple step-by-step illustrated instructions. Make divine decorations, Easter baskets, chirpy chicks, creative cards, and more!

By David Cole, BRF, £8.99 This inspirational book takes the reader through the 40 days of Lent to the celebration of Easter through the eyes and beliefs of Celtic Christianity. Drawing on primary sources of pastoral letters, monastic rules and the theological teaching of the Celtic church, the author presents a different perspective on the...

By David Runcorn, BRF, £7.99 Lent is one of the three 40-day ‘seasons’ in the Church’s year, besides Advent and the period from Easter to Pentecost. The name itself, Lent, derives from an ancient word meaning ‘Spring’ or ‘long’, referring to the time of year when days are beginning to lengthen and the world is...

Saying Yes to Life – The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2020 Reflections for Lent 2020 The Heart Of It All – the Bible’s Big Picture You Are Mine:  Daily Bible readings from Ash Wednesday to Easter Day A Prayer A Day – From Lent To Easter Looking Shame in the Eye The Jesus Way...

By Ruth Valerio  £7.99  SPCK  Saying Yes to Life lifts our focus from natural, everyday concerns to issues that are having an impact on millions of lives around the world. As people made in the image of God, we are entrusted to look after what He has created: to share in God’s joy and ingenuity in...

By Steven Croft, Christopher Herbert and John Pritchard, CHP, £4.99 Reflections for Lent is designed to enhance your spiritual journey through the forty days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday (26 February – 11 April 2020). Covering Monday to Saturday each week, it offers reflections on readings from the Common Worship Lectionary, written by some...

By Samuel Wells, BRF, £9.99 As a collection of 66 books spanning thousands of years, the Bible can be daunting in size and scope. In The Heart of It All, the Canterbury Press Lent book for 2020, Samuel Wells simplifies the Bible’s complexity and presents the entire sweep of its narrative in 18 key themes....

By David Walker, BRF, £8.99 At this time of Lent, David Walker explores different aspects of human belonging through the medium of scripture and story, in order to help us recognise the different ways in which we are God’s beloved. And as we recognise ourselves and our own lives in the narrative of God’s engagement...

By David Adam, Kevin Mayhew, £9.99 The six weeks of Lent are a time of preparing: a time when we seek to understand the fullness of Christ’s offering on the cross and rejoice in the resurrection. Lent is a time to improve our prayer life and to make sure we spend some time each day...

By Simon Cozens, IVP, £9.99 Shame, humiliation and stigma are all around us. Online shaming reminds us of the power of shame, the crisis of self-worth, the weight of judgement and the need for freedom. At the same time, people are becoming less responsive to gospel messages about guilt, morality and sin. If we want...