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Understanding the Bible: 10 Essential Books to Deepen Your Christian Faith

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:41:00 +0000

Discover 10 essential SPCK books that make understanding the Bible easier, deepen your Christian faith, and help you connect with the teachings of the Bible in a meaningful way.

Discover Our CRT 2024 Award-Winning Books!

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:29:00 +0000

We're delighted that two of our books have been awarded CRT awards - Brighter Days by Patrick Regan for Christian Life Book of the Year and Tom Wright's My Big Story Bible for Children's Book of the Year.

Easter Reading For All The Family

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:59:00 +0000

Celebrate Easter this weekend with a selection of reflections, meditations, and Bible story books that the whole family can enjoy!

Rage and Hope - two very different and complicated emotions

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 11:59:00 +0000

With the upcoming release of Rage and Hope: 75 prayers for a better world, we asked SPCK staff members what they thought of the book. In this blog post, Business Development Assistant Siân tells us her thoughts.

'Not just a travelogue...' - Nick Owen reviews Utterly Brilliant! by Timmy Mallett

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:58:00 +0000

With lockdown measures gradually easing, there are many changes as to what we are now allowed to do. Changes to places where we can now visit are not the only changes that are occurring, our reading habits have also changed!

At the start of lockdown many readers’ preferences were either books that they could escape to or books that could distract them, such as cookery or craft books. In a recent webinar led by Nielsen Book Data they reported that the latest trends were people wanting books that were either entertaining, comforting or bought a sense of nostalgia to them.

Timmy Mallett’s book Utterly Brilliant! does all three! With an entertaining commentary of his Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, a heartfelt reminder of making the most of every day, and nostalgic mentions of 80s and 90s television, you will find here in this book everything you could have asked for. In this blog post Nick Owen explains why Timmy’s book is more than just a travelogue.

Part 2 of our Q&A with David Wilbourne, Author of Just John

Fri, 08 May 2020 09:36:00 +0000

Here's part 2 of our Q&A with David Wilbourne, author of Just John: The Authorized Biography of John Habgood. Find out in this second part what we can learn from John's life and work, and whether there were any parallels between his life then and the world today.

Publishing in a Pandemic - How is Ready to Rise helping to empower readers during this time

Thu, 07 May 2020 12:32:00 +0000

Jo Saxton's book Ready to Rise is hitting the shelves and virtual shelves at an unprecedented time of global crisis. Naturally, Jo didn't have a global pandemic in mind when she put pen to paper, but readers have told her that they feel this book is empowering them for this moment. We catch up with Jo in this Q&A and find out her inspiration behind this powerful book.

You are not alone, an extract from Baby Change

Tue, 05 May 2020 10:47:00 +0000

Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week is a week-long campaign dedicated to talking about mental illness during and after pregnancy. In the introduction to Baby Change, Anne Calver writes that she '...did not find anything to help parents emotionally, mentally or spiritually as they prepared for and transitioned into life as mums and dads'.

In this extract from the book you will find Anne's personal account of the emotions she experienced after taking her tiny human home. Would she do it all over again? Yes, but with the right tools to navigate pregnancy, which is why she has taken pen to paper.

Q&A with David Wilbourne, Author of Just John

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:03:00 +0000

David Wilbourne has been a 'John Habgood observer' for 37 years. Just John: The Authorized Biography of John Habgood has been a long time in the making, as we learn in this Q&A with David it took four years to complete just one chapter. Find out in this first part of our Q&A what it was like to write this biography and whether David, who knew John well discovered anything surprising about him.

SPCK Authors at Spring Harvest Home

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 11:22:00 +0000

From 13th to 17th April Spring Harvest will be delivered direct to your living room via a free online conference on YouTube. Many SPCK authors are taking part in Spring Harvest Home and you will be able to find out more about them in this blog post. You will also find here the latest edition of SPCK Today which is a special Spring Harvest edition. It's full of extracts and interviews with the Spring Harvest speakers as well as news on our charitable programmes.