Gift Books

Takes readers month-by-month, day-by-day, through the festivities of English life. This book explains how the festivities originated, what they mean and when they occur.

This is Dave Walker's third collection of cartoons with its Tweeting bishops, its sociological study of the average Lent group, its handy guide to weighing up the respective merits of going to a church service vs. an Alpha course, and a great deal more.

This popular annual brings you a different thought for every day of the year. It offers wisdom, comfort and humour to uplift, cheer and sustain. Accompanied by beautiful photographs, this book is a delight to dip into again and again.

Ever found yourself wishing you had asked the deeper questions of life from someone you admired but the time or opportunity ran out? The Legacy Letters is a prompted journal, a volume that requires the receiver of the book to fill in the pages with their own wisdom which seeks to go deeper into the very motivations of those who inspire us.

Following the tracks, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast ancient network of routes criss-crossing the British Isles and beyond, the author discovers a lost world - a landscape of the feet and the mind, of pilgrimage and ritual, of stories and ghosts; above all of the places and journeys which inspire and inhabit our imaginations.