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  • An Inconvenient Convent
    Simon Parke
    Is it Stormhaven’s best kept secret? The Community of the Holy Fire is a convent by the sea with a leader who has plans. Abbess Hildegard wishes to turn the community into a beacon of ’Greenness’ - a prophetic call to the world in the face of terrifying climate change.’Green is not a hobby for fanatics,’ she says. ’It is the warp and weft of all that is!’But time and tide wait ...
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    16,91 €

  • A Hearse at Midnight
    Simon Parke
    ’Daffodils freeze and shrubs cry in Stormhaven. They call it ’The Beast from the East’ and the temperature’s unholy; it crucifies all with cruel nails of ice; a Siberian chill piercing their bones. And there will be a further killing tonight - human, not plant; boy, not man.’ So begins another case for Abbot Peter and D.I. Tamsin Shah, with the discovery of a young man’s body a...
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    16,92 €

  • Gospel
    Simon Parke
    First century Palestine is a region glued together by hate. The Roman invaders rule, the Jewish authorities collude while the enraged and desperate plot violent revolt. Pilate lives with his nightmares, Herod makes guilty hay, the balance of power is delicate - and the last thing anyone needs is Yeshua, a man with a mind and heart of his own. He’s going to suggest a shocking al...
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    17,04 €

  • Another Bloody Retreat
    Simon Parke
    ‘What was it like in the desert, abbot?’ asks Rosemary.And, in a way, this book is his answer.In the first of the acclaimed Abbot Peter mysteries, Peter takes us to St James, a fragile community in the hot sands of Middle Egypt, peopled by those with nowhere else to take their creaking lives. There in the shadows of Mt Sinai Peter faces deception, delusion and death.The monaste...
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    17,87 €

  • The Soldier, the Gaoler, the Spy and her Lover
    Simon Parke
    For fans of Historical Fiction.Are you looking to escape back to a time when many people thought they knew exactly what God wanted them to do?Enjoy some satisfying research and a transformation of an historical turning-point to lively effect.In this brilliantly atmospheric novel called ’ The Soldier, the Gaoler, the Spy and her Lover’, Simon Parke explores one of the most gripp...
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    12,52 €

  • One Minute Meditation
    Simon Parke
    A book of short meditations for use wherever you find yourself - on the bus, at the doctors, in your bedroom or by the pool. The third in Simon’s One Minute trilogy, it’s an invitation, in your busy life, to Pause. Read. Live. For truth-seekers who value awareness in their life... but don’t have all day. ...
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    15,35 €

  • The Enneagram
    Simon Parke
    The Enneagram is a time-honoured way of understanding personality types and human behavior. It is both ancient and modern. Developed over 1500 years by Sufi and Christian mystics, it was revised and extensively expanded in the 20th century by the disciplines and insights of Western psychology.It identifies nine types of personality, nine ways of being, describes how they interr...
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    15,13 €

  • Forsaking the Family
    Simon Parke
    We all grow up somewhere. No two families are the same, but everyone experiences them in some way. What everyone doesn’t do, however, is consider the effect of these experiences on the person they become. This lack of awareness can have significant consequences in their future relationships in the world.Forsaking the family, full of story and illustration, starts by considering...
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    12,46 €

  • Solitude
    Simon Parke
    What does solitude mean to you? Albert Einstein once said: ’I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.’In his latest book Simon Parke, author of The Beautiful Life and One-Minute Mindfulness describes solitude as the active path to inner silence and takes us on an enthralling journey there. In a world of haste and distraction he c...
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    17,89 €

  • Revelations of Divine Love
    Julian of Norwich / Simon Parke
    ’Revelations of Divine Love’ by Julian of Norwich is the first book written in English by a woman. But the work is read now not for historical interest but for the God she describes and the optimism she exudes; an optimism all the more remarkable for the setting in which she wrote.Julian lived in Norwich from 1342 - 1416; but 14th century England was far from the Merry Old Engl...
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    14,23 €

  • Heaven and Hell
    Emanuel Swedenborg / Simon Parke
    Reader’s noteThis is an abridged version of Swedenborg’s original, which is about twice the length. When deciding what to omit, avoidance of repetition was usually the determining factor. Even in this edition he revisits his main themes frequently. The original numbering of the paragraphs has been maintained, however, to enable readers clearly to see which passages have been om...
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    15,04 €

  • Conversations with Mozart
    Simon Parke / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a child prodigy who became an adult genius, died in debt and was buried in an unmarked grave in his adopted home of Vienna. Mozart needed no formal lessons in composition. He’d been composing since the age of five, and possessed astonishing musical memory, able to re-create whatever he heard or saw. He could mimic different styles and his travels, which...
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    12,39 €

  • Conversations with Jesus of Nazareth
    Jesus of Nazareth / Simon Parke
    Who was Jesus of Nazareth? Many admire his spiritual teachings; some go further and claim him as the messiah, while a few deny he ever existed at all. But everyone has an opinion about this obscure preacher who lived his brief life in one of the less significant regions of the Roman Empire; and who, in being crucified, died the traditional death for criminals and trouble-makers...
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    13,34 €

  • Conversations with Meister Eckhart
    Meister Eckhart / Simon Parke
    In many ways, Meister Eckhart has had to wait seven centuries to be heard. Born in 13th century Germany, much of his life was spent in a monastery. ’Meister’ means ’Master’, and is an academic title from the University of Paris. An admired member of the Dominican Order, he was often sent to reform ailing priories. He was known as a spiritual counsellor; a safe haven for many wh...
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    19,76 €

  • Conversations with Van Gogh
    Simon Parke / Vincent Van Gogh
    ’Conversations with Van Gogh’ is an imagined conversation with this remarkable figure. But while the conversation is imagined, Van Gogh’s words are not; they are all authentically his. ’Vincent van Gogh is best known for two things - his sunflowers and his ear-cutting. But there are many other ways of knowing this remarkable son of a Dutch pastor, who left his chill homela...
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    20,70 €

  • Conversations with Van Gogh
    Simon Parke / Vinent Van Gogh
    ’Conversations with Van Gogh’ is an imagined conversation with this remarkable figure. But while the conversation is imagined, Van Gogh’s words are not; they are all authentically his. ’Vincent van Gogh is best known for two things - his sunflowers and his ear-cutting. But there are many other ways of knowing this remarkable son of a Dutch pastor, who left his chill homeland fo...
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    13,45 €

  • Conversations with Meister Eckhart
    Meister Eckhart / Simon Parke
    In many ways, Meister Eckhart has had to wait seven centuries to be heard. Born in 13th century Germany, much of his life was spent in a monastery. ’Meister’ means ’Master’, and is an academic title from the University of Paris. An admired member of the Dominican Order, he was often sent to reform ailing priories. He was known as a spiritual counsellor; a safe haven for many wh...
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    14,53 €

  • Conversations with Leo Tolstoy
    Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy / Simon Parke
    When most think of Tolstoy, they think of the great author. ’War and Peace’ and ’Anna Karenina’ brought him worldwide fame, and a good deal of money. Had he done nothing else in life, these two novels would have ensured him status and respect. Few others had written both a national epic and a great love story; and some might have been content with that. For his last thirty year...
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    12,47 €

  • Conversations with Arthur Conan Doyle
    Arthur Conan Doyle / Simon Parke
    At the end of the 19th century, perhaps every man wanted to be Arthur Conan Doyle. He had written historical novels, short stories of horror and the supernatural; and displayed huge energy and talent in a variety of fields. He was a fine cricketer (he once took the wicket of the great WC Grace); played football, rugby and golf. He practiced as a doctor; campaigned for underdogs...
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    12,45 €