Advent & Christmas Books

Prepare for the coming of Christ with this popular and inviting annual guide. During the especially busy Advent and Christmas seasons, this book of...

Following on from her bestselling Women of Holy Week, Paula Gooder uses her extensive biblical expertise and storytelling skills to recreate the ev...

Christmas-themed reflections accompanied by favourite carols, hymns, poems and prayers. 25 short reflective pieces for the Christmas season written...

The Christmas story traditionally shows a giant star hovering above the stable in Bethlehem, guiding the wise men to the infant Christ. What was th...

"..As an evening star rose higher and higher, Mary pondered these things and praised her Maker. He was with her through it all, in her exhaustion, ...

It was not only Mary and Joseph who journeyed to Bethlehem - all the characters and creatures we meet in the nativity stories found their way to th...

An Advent Book of Days tells the stories of all the characters and creatures that make up the Christmas story, with daily prayers and reflections b...

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...

This is a new combined and enlarged edition of two favourite Canterbury Press backlist titles, Raymond Chapman's Stations of the Nativity and Stati...

Henry Wansbrough uses the readings of Advent and Christmas, to the Epiphany to provide timeless and inspiring meditations and suggested actions tha...

God's Little Book of Christmas. Words of Promise, Hope and Celebration. A new edition especially for Advent and Christmas in this best-selling seri...

Prayerfully discover the meaning of Christmas with this collection of meditations on the Scriptures and prayers of the Advent season. Reflecting up...

In the final days of Advent, the Church recites the Great O Antiphons when the Magnificat is prayed at Vespers each evening. These antiphons refer ...

In the Bleak Midwinter explores the power of Advent and the joy of Christmas through the poetry of Christina Rossetti. Best known for her poems-tur...

Five Events that Made Christianity. Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost, by John Pritchard. ‘Jesus was a pest to the Romans and...

Advent for Everyone. A Journey With the Apostles. 'Tom Wright is simply crucial; his writing can transform one’s life.’ Anne Rice. Join Tom Wright ...

Come Emmanuel, Approaching Advent, Living with Christmas. With characteristic gentleness and wisdom, Ann Lewin leads us on an exploration of the se...

Crafts for Creative Worship, By Jan Brind & Tessa Wilkinson. This resource is full of simple ideas for making things to enrich the great celebr...

Darkness Yielding. Liturgies, Prayers and Reflections for Christmas, Holy Week and Easter. Darkness Yielding is an imaginative and engaging collect...

Dreamers and Stargazers. Creative Liturgies for Incarnational Worship: Advent to Candlemas. Author: Chris Thorpe. Dreamers and Stargazers is an ima...

Haphazard by Starlight, A Poem A Day From Advent To Epiphany, By Janet Morley. Advent is celebrated when the year is becoming darker and colder, mo...

Hope That Transforms, Daily Readings for Advent and Christmas. Marking the different seasons of the Christian year, with their varying moods, is be...