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The Use and Abuse of the Bible A brief history of biblical inerpretation by Henry Wansbrough OSB. Fr Henry brings a lifetime of love and study of the Bible to this work which looks at how different generatons have read the scriptures for their own time and purposes. He begins with how the apostolic church read the Hebrew scriptures to find Christ in them, and concludes with modern political uses, including the situation in modern Israel. Fr Henry is currently the Executive Secretary of the Commission which is preparing a new English Lectionary. Price: £13.70 / €16.44 Quantity:

John Paul II - Man of History Edward Stourton attempts to make sense of a remarkable life, and to rescue John Paul the man from the myths that have grown up around the cult of John Paul the Great. Neither the plaster saint, nor the wicked ultra conservative old man describe what is a genuinely complex and compelling story. The last pope was a bundle of paradoxes: a high intellectual who also believed in peasant cults, a moral conservative but a social radical, a champion of freedom who cracked down on dissent within the Church, the most modern of popes in the way he conveyed his messge but the most traditional in his ideas. History formed him and explains much about him, but it is also true that this man shaped history. Price: £8.99 / €10.79 Quantity:

Snobs For his first novel since winning the 2002 Academy Award for his script of Gosford Park, Julian Fellowes, has written a comedy of manners. Edith Lavery, a middle class telephonist, marries into the aristocracy and raises eyebrows when she arranges for a TV company to make a period drama in the family home, Broughton Hall. (paperback) For more detail, click here. Price: £8.99 / €10.79 Quantity:

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson. An account of how he survived a terrifying ordeal and injuries during a mountain-climbing expedition in the Andes. It has been made into an award winning film recently and a new epilogue has been added to the book. For a bigger picture, click here. Price: £7.99 / €9.59 Quantity:

White Mughals by William Dalrymple. James Kirkpatrick was the British representative at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he fell in love with a beautiful young Mughal princess, converted to Islam and married her. This romantic and ultimately tragic tale of love across boundaries took place in a world almost entirely unexplored by history. [Winner of the 2003 Wolfson History Prize.] Click here for a larger picture. Price: £8.99 / €10.79 Quantity:

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