CANTERBURY PRESS

The Quiet Path is a book for the walker, or the armchair traveller, the clear-sighted tourist, or the bewildered wanderer. Blending reflection and poetry, it shows how the simple practice of walking can become a quiet path of wonder, and how a brief pause in a busy day can turn into contemplation.

Taking on a leadership role does not always come naturally. Lack of confidence, self-doubt, apprehension and fear of failure all hold many gifted people back. In The Reluctant Leader, coaching experts Peter Shaw and Hillary Douglas will help you turn your natural hesitation into a confident use of your leadership gifts.

A major revision designed for the liturgical needs of worship today. Includes general hymns; hymns for feasts, seasons and saints' days; office hymns for the liturgical year; an enlarged eucharistic section; responsorial psalms; new mass settings, Welsh hymns translated by Rowan Williams and hymns from the world church.

Includes general hymns; hymns for feasts, seasons and saints' days: office hymns for the liturgical year; an enlarged eucharistic section; responsorial psalms; and a new English folk mass setting

The Rule of St Benedict is the foundation of monasticism, one of the oldest continuing institutions in all of Western civilization. This first ever gender-neutral translation is true to the original text but provides an alternative to the masculine language of the original.

Reflecting on Matthew's Gospel, renowned preacher Barbara Brown Taylor takes timeless stories of seeds, weeds, doubt, risk, family fights, shame and glory, and explores how they resonate with the hopes, fears and questions of contemporary readers, enabling them to discover God's truth in their own lives.

Malcolm Guite's eagerly awaited second poetry collection offers poems that seek beauty and transfiguration in contemporary life; sonnets inspired by Francis and other outstanding saints; poems centred on love, parting and mortality; and poems searching for the life of the spirit in the midst of the modern era.

In The Vanishing Song, trans Christian poet Jay Hulme goes in search of what is all but lost in contemporary faith, the 'beautiful and holy and wild' way of the saints, and the alluring, perplexing mystery of the places they chose for themselves - forests, caves, rocky outcrops in the sea.