Results for: books tagged ‘Clergy’
Asking Around: Hare Trilogy: David Hare
David Hare's trilogy of plays - Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges, The Absence of War - first presented at the National Theatre, London, in 1993, examines the crises facing three great ... More
The Faber Book of Church and Clergy: A. N. Wilson
The Short Day Dying: Peter Hobbs
Charles Wenmoth is a young blacksmith and Methodist lay-preacher in the furthest, wildest reaches of south-west England. It is 1870 and preachers such as Wenmoth devote weekdays to work and ... More
Be Near Me: Andrew O'Hagan
'Be near me when my light is low,When the blood creeps, and the nerves prickAnd tingle; and the heart is sick . . .'In a small Scottish parish, an English ... More
The Big Chapel: Thomas Kilroy
'And now The Big Chapel has a chance to come back to full life after 30 years of catalepsy. The Red Priest will thunder again. The big chapel will be desecrated. The Master will be felled.' -- Brian Friel writing in the Guardian More
A Roving Recluse: Peter Anson
A Roving Recluse is the second volume of memoirs by Peter Frederick Anson; the eccentric monk, writer and artist who became Britain’s leading authority on 19th and 20th century church ... More
Crusaders: Richard T. Kelly
In 1996, just before the rise of New Labour, Reverend Gore returns to his native Newcastle charged with planting a new church in one of the city's estates. One of the year's best debuts. More
Dallas Sweetman: Sebastian Barry
From his grave in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral, Dallas Sweetman is called to give account. He tells a story of love and death, jealousy and miraculous happenings, of the ... More
Be Near Me (Stage Play): Ian McDiarmid
Father David Anderton is assigned to a crippled Scottish town on the Ayrshire coast, where sectarianism is rife. He is a cultivated - if naive and unworldly - man, ill-suited to his ... More
The Selected Writings of Sydney Smith: Edited by W. H. Auden
'He is a very clever fellow, but he will never be a bishop.' George III'A more profligate parson I never met.' George IV'I sat next to Sydney Smith, who was ... More
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