Biography

A humorous, heartfelt self-help book exploring life's big questions with a side of even bigger laughs.

When Trudy Makepeace arrived at the girl's home in Tredegar, a staff member on duty at the time wondered how she was still alive. Trudy was skin and bone, with fear in her eyes and the staff on duty said they'd never seen someone so destroyed by drugs. This true story of Trudy's transformation is marked by the mercy and miraculous power of God.

Cast in the form of an autobiography covering period between 1940 and 2015, After the Order of Melchizedek is, in effect, an account of the Church of England as she was during the second half of the 20th century.

Alfred Hope Patten was a leading Anglo-Catholic priest of his generation. This biography focuses on Hope's family and background and explores many of the myths that he created about himself. It deals with the struggles he had - personal and financial - to establish his dream in the Norfolk countryside and the failure of his vision in other areas.

John Henry Newman, one of the towering figures of the early Victorian Church of England, caused shock and outrage in equal measure when he announced his espousal of Roman Catholicism in 1845. This autobiography traces his spiritual development since boyhood and his close involvement in the high church Tractarian Movement.