Biographies

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...