Biography

A humorous, heartfelt self-help book exploring life's big questions with a side of even bigger laughs.

Stour Seasons is the tenth collection of Word From Wormingford columns. Britain's greatest living rural writer observes in rich detail the gifts that each season of the year brings and in doing so, evokes a world of beauty, friendship and wonder at the simple pleasures that make everyday life the miracle that it is.

John Henry Newman, one of the towering figures of the early Victorian Church of England, caused shock and outrage in equal measure when he announced his espousal of Roman Catholicism in 1845. This autobiography traces his spiritual development since boyhood and his close involvement in the high church Tractarian Movement.

In the tense stand-off between the Christian south and the Muslim north in Nigeria, Archbishop Ben is on the front line.

The life-changing near-death experience of a respected neurosurgeon.