Last-minute Christmas book gifts

Still looking for a last-minute gift with UK delivery in time for Christmas?

Purchase any of the books below using “Standard” or “Premium” delivery before noon GMT on Thursday 19 December 2024 and we will dispatch them before Royal Mail’s last Christmas posting date.

Plus: Use the discount code XMAS at checkout to get an an additional 10% off!

For full details of our Christmas delivery dates and policies can be found on our blog.

• Northumberland: A Guide

  by Stephen Platten

  Hardback £30.00 £25.00
  

  A fully illustrated guidebook to Northumberland, including a gazeteer, maps and more than 200 photographs

  

• Mostly Durham: Watercolour Paintings and Drawings of Durham and Beyond

  by Stuart Fisher and Michael Sadgrove (foreword) ★★★★

  Hardback (colour) £30.00
  

  Award-winning artist Stuart Fisher is considered to be one of the most talented painters of architectural landscapes in Northern England. Mostly Durham contains 75 of his beautiful watercolour paintings and drawings from around the historic city of Durham and beyond.

  

• Sink or Swim: Catholicism in Sixties Britain through John Ryan's Cartoons

  by Alana Harris and Isabel Ryan, and John Ryan (illustrator) ★★★★

  Paperback £12.99
  

  Cartoons by John Ryan, better known as the creator of Captain Pugwash, provide a personal portrait of the extraordinary ups and downs of religion in the Sixties—encompassing the machinations of popes and cardinals, the testimony of expert witnesses, runaway priests, radical reformists and lay protest movements.

  

• Fierce Love: Music Leads a Lost Child Home

  by Adrian Snell and Leon van Steensel ★★★★

  Paperback £14.99
  

  Memoir of the musician Adrian Snell, known for ‘The Passion’, ‘The Cry’ and ‘Fierce Love’.

  

• Defend Us in Battle: Catholic Chaplains in the British Military

  by James Hagerty and Barry Hudd

  Paperback £25.00 £20.00
  

  An insight into the ministry of priests who over the centuries and across the world have voluntarily provided Catholic service personnel with the solace of religion far away from home and frequently in danger.

  

• Breathers of an Ampler Day: Victorian Views of Heaven

  by Ian Bradley ★★★★★

  Paperback £14.99
  

  As death comes out of the closet in contemporary society, this book presents the views on heaven and the afterlife of a number of well-known Victorians, and others not so well known, in the belief that they may help us today.

  

• Preaching for the Planet: Sermons on Creation and Climate

  by Jenny Wilson and Graham Usher (foreword)

  Paperback £14.99
  

  Sermons preached by Jenny Wilson, Canon Precentor of St Peter’s Cathedral in Adelaide. The introductory chapter explores ideas about preaching with a particular focus on preaching for the planet at this time of climate crisis.

  

• Preaching the Passion: Interpreting the Evangelists

  by Gregory Dunstan

  Paperback £14.99
  

  Sermons for Holy Week and Easter, written for a parish congregation, exploring the events of Jesus’ death and resurrection as told by the four Evangelists each with his distinctive perspective and interpretation.

  

• Cuthbert of Farne: A novel of Northumbria’s warrior saint

  by Katharine Tiernan ★★★★

  Paperback £12.99
  

  The first historical novel about Cuthbert, much-loved saint of the North, a one-time warrior whose destiny it was to reconcile the warring parties in the early English Church.

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• The Song of Hild

  by Vibeke Vasbo and Gaye Kynoch (translator) ★★★★

  Paperback £16.99
  

  Translated from the #1 Danish Bestseller, this is a gritty, powerful story about the prominent role women played in the spread of Christianity in seventh-century Britain. We are drawn into a world of dark dealings, powerful patriarchy and religious wrangling...

  

• A Similar Devotion

  by Susan Bell ★★★★

  Paperback £14.99
  

  A dual narrative set at the dawn of the twenty-first century and in the compelling political landscape of the Jacobite Uprising, this tale shows that while the world may change, love stays just the same.

  

• All Christians Are Monks: The Monastery, the Parish and the Renewal of the Church

  by George Guiver ★★★★

  Paperback £14.99
  

  A lively and challenging exploration of things the contemporary Church needs to learn from monastic communities, things it has lost and needs to rediscover.

  

• Go . . . Make Disciples

  by John Marsh ★★★★★

  Paperback £14.99
  

  A book for all who want to respond to Jesus’ challenge to “Go and make disciples”.

  

• Hidden in Plain Sight: Unearthing and Earthing the Psalms

  by John Holdsworth ★★★★

  Paperback £12.99
  

  The Psalms are songs of defiance against the odds in which the voice of ordinary worshippers can be heard. This book listens to that voice and relates the Psalms contemporary experience.

  

• The Big Bang and the Holy Trinity

  by Paul Cobb

  Paperback £9.99
  

  How do science and Christianity together provide an explanation of the story of humankind and a vision for our future?

  

• iJesus: The Culture of God in a Digital World

  by Nadim Nassar ★★★

  Paperback £12.99
  

  iJesus explores the relationship between the culture of God as Trinity in relation to our highly complex digital cultures and reflects on how followers and disciples of Jesus Christ can live in a world shaped by digital communication, connectivity and artificial intelligence.

  

• Praying for the Earth: Remembering the Environment in our Prayers of Intercession

  by Rob Kelsey and Nicholas Holtam (foreword)

  Paperback £9.99
  

  A resource for congregations and for individual Christians who believe that environmental concerns should be an integral part of the public and private prayers of all Christian people.

  

• Prayers for Living: 500 Prayers for Public and Private Worship

  by Rosalind Brown ★★★★★

  Paperback £19.99
  

  Prayers for Living offers 500 new accessible, contemporary and wide-ranging intercessory prayers suitable for public worship or private devotion.

  

• Peace is a Doing Word: Prayer Patterns for Peacemakers

  by ​Barbara Glasson

  Paperback £16.99
  

  Peace is a Doing Word, uses poetry, story and prayers to reflect on what practicing peace means in every moment of our daily lives. The book offers insights throughout the course of the day, from ‘waking’ to ‘resting’ and concludes each section with a blessing.

  

• Waking Up to God: Rediscovering Faith in Post-pandemic Times

  by Neil Richardson

  Paperback £14.99
  

  Neil Richardson offers a “new look” Christian faith, drawing from the Bible and from Christian tradition, but showing how much we have missed in the Bible, and how much some traditional beliefs have been misunderstood.

  

• With Bridget in the Holy Land

  by Luca Cesarini

  Paperback £16.99
  

  Discover the dramatic and eventful pilgrimage of a medieval women – St Bridge of Sweden – from Rome to Jerusalem in 1371-73.

  

• Gospel of Fulfilment: Exploring the Gospel of Matthew

  by Patrick Whitworth

  Paperback £12.99
  

  A short, handy guide to the Gospel of Matthew for all who want to explore the first book of the New Testament in group study or on their own.

  

• Honest Sadness: Lament in a Pandemic Age

  by John Holdsworth ★★★★

  Paperback £14.99
  

  A book examining lament as a means of articulating faithful incomprehension, and as a resource for what have been called communities of honest sadness.

  

• From Over the Edge: A Christian’s guide to surviving Breakdown & Depression

  by Jon Grogan ★★★

  Paperback £12.99
  

  An intimate account of struggling with depression and breakdown as a Christian. Jon Grogan shares what helped him to understand and recover from depressive illness.