Biographies

Pope Pius XII: Architect for Peace.“A valuable contribution to the study of Pope Pius XII and his times. The author has shown here how distorted an...

Sixtus V. The Hermit of Villa Montalto. A much neglected, but major figure of the Renaissance. Although Sixtus V was abstemious and devout, living ...

Reges Christianissimi. History and Interpretation in Bede’s Account. of the Early Kings of Northumbria. Bede was a monk of the joint monastery of M...

Rev’d Rowland Broomhead 1751-1820. Apostle of the North. Rowland Broomhead was born into a recusant Catholic family in Sheffield, but his life and ...

Robert Hooke and the English Renaissance. Robert Hooke, one of Britain’s most ingenious inventors, has been long neglected.  Described as ‘an Engli...

Blessed Roger Cadwallador. Roger Cadwallador was born at Stretton Sugwas near Hereford in 1568 and martyred in Leominster (Llanllieni) on 27 August...

Ronald Knox and English Catholicism. Ronald Knox was hailed as one of the brightest minds of the Edwardian era, and his decision to become Catholic...

 At the age of forty-five, unfit and overweight, Clark Berge, a professed Franciscan friar, took up running. In his younger life he had struggled w...

Here is an account of the life of St John Henry Newman, and extensive selections from his writings illustrating the range and power of his thought,...

Saints of North America. Over the past four or five centuries, as the Christian message has spread across North America, God has raised up many hol...

Few can doubt the extraordinary impact that the writings of E L Mascall had on theologians and the general reader.  His graceful writing style and ...

Soul Fuel, By Bear Grylls. Bestselling author Bear Grylls has survived a free-fall parachute accident that left him with a broken back, possibly un...

Stepinac: His Life and Times. For the last seventy years—ever since his show-trial in 1946—Alojzije Stepinac, Cardinal Archbishop of Zagreb, has be...

Stories of World War 1. Faith in Action. From 2014 to 2018, the world will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Great War. The death toll would...

Surprised By Joy. “In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God … perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all En...

The story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert, Take This Bread is not only a spiritual...

Ten African Cardinals. While the Catholic Church is languishing in much of the West, by contrast it flourishes across Africa. Despite this, most Af...

Teresa Helena Higginson. An Introduction by Paul Haffner. Teresa Higginson (1844-1905) was a saintly Catholic school teacher. She received many sup...

Saint Teresa of Avila and Father Gracián: the story of an historic friendship. ‘Not all nuns should do this’. St Teresa of Avila was an intensely l...

Teresa of Avila. Life and times of the great Spanish mystic and Carmelite reformer. This great Spanish saint (1515-1582), mystic and Doctor of the ...

The Book of Margery Kempe. The Autobiography of the Wild Woman of God. Translated, with an Introduction, by Tony D. Triggs. Dating from the fifteen...

The Challenge of Bernadette. Here is a new edition of this classic biography of St. Bernadette, first published in 1958. He is particularly admirab...

The Society of St John the Evangelist, otherwise known as the Cowley Fathers, was the first men's religious order to be founded in the Church of En...

The Day the Bomb Fell. Here is an eyewitness account, by a German Jesuit, of the atom bombing of Hiroshima. Appended is an account of the Christian...

The Elusive Father Brown. G. K. Chesterton’s much-loved priest-detective, Father Brown, was based on his friend John Joseph O’Connor, born in Irela...

The English Parson-Naturalist. A Companion Between Science and Religion. Since the time of William Turner (c1508-1568), the figure of the parson-na...

The Family and Descendants of St. Thomas More. This book, weaving together the history and genealogy of the More family and of the other families t...

The Holiness of G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton was one of the most provocative and well-loved English writers of the 20th century. Renowned for his j...

The Iona Pilgrims Manual, by Fr John J Ó Ríordáin. The Iona Pilgrim’s Manual provides the reader with a spiritual guide to help them in their journ...

The Noble Martyr, A Spiritual Biography of St Philip Howard. Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel (1557-1595), son of the 4th Duke of Norfolk, reached ad...

The Pelican in the Wilderness. Ivan Clutterbuck has long been a familiar figure amongst Anglo-Catholics. His books have provided both much needed t...

The Practical Mystic, Evelyn Underhill and Her Writings (1875-1941) was one of the most widely read spiritual writers in the first half of the 20th...

The Three Holy Kings. The story of the Three Kings is an integral and popular part of the modern celebration of Christmas, but devotion to the Magi...

The Tudor Cistercians. David Williams portrays every aspect of the life of the Cistercian monks and nuns of England and Wales in the half-century p...

The Welsh Cistercians. Written to Commemorate the Centenary of the Death of Stephen William Williams (1837-1899), the Father of Cistercian Archaeol...

St Thérèse of Lisieux and her Sisters. Marie of the Sacred Heart, Marie Martin; Mother Agnès of Jesus, Pauline Martin; Sr Françoise-Thérèse, Léonie...

St Thérèse of Lisieux “I Choose All”. In this classic account of St. Thérèse's spiritual teaching—”the little way of spiritual childhood”—Sister Te...

St. Thomas Becket. The murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 is one of the most famous events in English history, creating shock ...

St. Thomas of Hereford. St Thomas of Hereford played a central role in the spiritual and political life of England in the thirteenth century, holdi...

The Stargazer of Hardwicke. One of the best loved Victorian astronomers, Thomas William Webb (1806–1885) was driven by a strong desire to inform an...

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

St Vincent Pallotti, Prophet of  A Spirituality of Communion, Edited by Francesco Todisco, SAC. This biography attempts to trace the life and devel...

Walled About With God. The History and Spirituality of Enclosure for Cloistered Nuns, by Dom Jean Prou OSB and the Benedictine nuns of the Solesmes...

Walsingham Way. Alfred Hope Pattern and the Restoration of the Shrine of Our Lady. Alfred Hope Patten was a larger than life figure, terrifying to ...

William Gordon Wheeler. A Journey into the Fullness of Faith. William Gordon Wheeler (1910-1998) was Bishop of Leeds from 1966 until his retirement...

William Lockhart. First Fruits of the Oxford Movement. When William Lockhart died in London in 1892, The Tablet declared that perhaps no man, excep...

William Wardell, Building with Conviction. Born into lowly circumstances in London's East End in 1823 William Wilkinson Wardell became one of Austr...

The Spiritual Quest of Francis Wagstaffe. Francis Wagstaffe came to see his life as essentially meaningless and as a result began a spiritual quest...