Spirituality & Religion – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

The Saint and the Drunk

Max — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:03:01 +0000

What if you had an internal compass that could provide direction at every turning point in your life? The Saint and the Drunk – A Guide to Making the Big Decisions in Your Life shows people how to build a practice of intentional decision making. Everyone has access to reconnect to their authentic calling. But for many that access has been obscured by cultural or familial narratives…

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There’s No More Dying Then

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 09:03:28 +0000

In this book Stephanie Wilson shares her discoveries about the mystery that is death. This is a book for the living and the younger the better. In spite of her profession as a pathologist, the author had given little thought to the mystery that is death until challenged by a lecture. In this book she shares her discoveries, which she describes as “a personal revelation”. The challenge raised a…

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The Eternal One

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:56:48 +0000

A little-known creation myth from India that offers rich descriptions, complex language, and bewitching truth is transcribed with calligraphy and adorned with watercolor illustrations in this meditation on the origins of the world. The account parallels stories of creation from Genesis and the Upanishads, but the distinctive details and ancient wisdom offer a unique perspective on the vibrating…

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Springs of Joy: A Biblical Treasury

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:50:02 +0000

Over a period of years Evelyn Scaramanga, a clergyman’s widow, collected some of the best loved and most uplifting passages from the Bible, both Old and New Testaments. Each page is written out in calligraphy, in a modern style, but reminiscent of medieval illuminated manuscripts such as the Book of Kells or Lindisfarne Gospels. The originals are in five colours, the fifth, gold…

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Shakespeare and the Fire of Love

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:35:45 +0000

‘From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: They are the ground, the books, the academes, From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire’ These lines, spoken by Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost, embody all the passions of the early stages of love but, as so often with Shakespeare, he seems to be hinting at something more. What is the doctrine he derives from women’s eyes? What is it women’s…

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Ultimate Reality

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:07 +0000

Tapping the table at which they were sitting, the author asked his companions whether they had any idea of the ceaseless activity going on below the apparently solid surface. To his sceptical audience he explained that it was mainly empty space, the hardness being an illusion created by the rapid motion of the subatomic particles. This led to a lively discussion about the nature of reality and…

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The Spirit of Self-Help

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:04 +0000

Chosen for Spring 2017 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction When Dominic Sandbrook quoted Samuel Smiles extensively in his TV series on nineteenth-century work and leisure; when Ian Hislop flourished a copy of Smiles’s Self-Help (“the book that launched the genre”) in his programme on ‘Workers or Shirkers?’; when Andy Burnham reflected publicly on “lack of aspiration” as a…

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Promoting the Common Good

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:00 +0000

Modern economics has deliberately divorced itself from all moral and ethical considerations in the belief that it needs to be a value-free science. In schools and universities students are taught that what matters is maximising profits and cutting costs – any other considerations are irrelevant to them as economists. This is the philosophy which guides multinationals…

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The Golden Thread

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:58 +0000

This book is a gentle reminder that behind all the business of life, the unpredictable changes and stress, there is that which is eternal, unchanging and ever the same with which we are linked, as it were, by a golden thread. In gathering together this anthology, written in calligraphy and delightfully illustrated with watercolour paintings, Dorothy Boux has drawn on the teachings of many…

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The Hidden Girl

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:55 +0000

Finalist in the PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE SUMMER COLLECTION 2019 for Non-fiction and First Time Author. This book charts the author’s long journey of healing from the trauma caused by having to go into hiding as a child and having to deny that she was Jewish. It is not intended as an autobiography or a clinical paper on the healing process but as an account of a very personal inner journey.

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