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Lockdown Gives Edna Time To Write New Book

by Michael McG | Sep 7, 2020 | Book Reviews, Miscellaneous

Being in self-isolation with her husband helped local author Edna Hunneysett meet her challenge of finishing her latest book in time for her 80th birthday in July, writes MIKE MORRISEY. Great-grandmother Edna’s Greener Pastures And Brown Blazers is a heart-warming...

York Author Publishes Children’s Mass Book

by Michael McG | Jul 3, 2020 | Book Reviews, Miscellaneous

York-based children’s author and liturgical and eucharistic minister Sue Ellis has produced an interactive book to help families, schools and churches inspire children to share in the celebration of the Mass. The book is designed to help children aged from five to ten...

Pilgrims’ Travel Guide To God’s Own County Published

by Michael McG | Jul 3, 2020 | Book Reviews, Miscellaneous

North-East publisher Sacristy Press is publishing a new travel guide all about Yorkshire and its Christian Heritage. Yorkshire has a long and rich Christian history, stretching back beyond the Vikings to Roman Britain. Saints and Holy Places of...

Book Celebrates Life Of Father Tony

by Michael McG | Jul 8, 2019 | Book Reviews, Miscellaneous

The life of a Middlesbrough diocesan priest who had an extraordinary impact on the people he served is celebrated in a new biography. Father Tony Storey – known to many simply as “Storey” – was a gifted writer and preacher whose intellect, inspirational style and...

Father Dan: the story of an imperfect priest

by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Book Reviews

Anthea Dove’s new book – unusually, a novel – is a thought-provoking, moving story of a priest whose day-to-day life presents him with many situations which affect us in our lives. In the very first chapter, we meet the apprehensive curate, the...

Cooking apples the Ampleforth Abbey way

by webmaster | Jun 2, 2009 | Book Reviews, Parishes, Religious Communities

Apples have been grown at Ampleforth Abbey for well over one hundred years and monks today still provide the work force in what is England’s northernmost commercial orchard. Now, many of their famed recipes have been re-published in a mouth-watering book...