Summer Reading 2025 - Biographies

A true story about making the most of your one incredible life. On July 20, 2019, Stacey Morgan kissed her husband goodbye before he donned his spa...

Berti Dosti faced a terrible but intriguing dilemma. He was an Albanian army captain and his job as a radio specialist was to listen into the world...

One man's amazing story of how God protected and provided for him in the midst of the Burundian civil war and brought him to a place of grace, forg...

'I took a glass and carefully broke it. I ground it, then mixed it into some cooked rice. This lethal meal would be the end of my insufferable igno...

All three volumes of Helen Roseveare’s autobiography combined for the first time, with a foreword by John & Noël Piper, and an introduction and...

A rare, firsthand account of life as one of the select few entrusted with flying the legendary Concorde, the supersonic marvel that redefined air t...

Some memories are permanently seared into our childhood brains with a hot iron of adrenaline and fear. For five-year-old Greg, it was the memory of...

When Marcy Gregg awoke from a coma, 13 years had vanished from her memory. She was 30 years old; she thought she was still 17. She didn’t recognise...

Vice Cop to Vicar chronicles the extraordinary journey of one man through the darkest corridors of crime, trauma, and personal anguish to a profoun...

Inspired brings together the stories of eight very different individuals. Although their lives are unique, they all share the same thing: they are ...

Mud, Bullets and Open Roads is the story of an ordinary life lived in obedience to God with extraordinary consequences. Through testing and opposit...

It began with George Mueller—rebellious, absorbed in the world and its pleasures. It became George Mueller—miraculously transformed by the power ...

John Stott was one of the foremost Christian leaders of the 20th century. This is a unique collection of perspectives on John Stott's ministry. It ...

A vibrant, short resource to help you hold out the gospel this Olympics. One hundred years ago, all eyes were on Paris for the 1924 Olympic Games. ...

In 1957, newly-qualified nurse Lily Gaynor set sail for Guinea-Bissau to live among the Papel tribe. Tuberculosis, malaria and typhoid were rife. C...

Known primarily for his allegorical work, The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan was also a preacher, a gifted theologian and interpreter of Scripture...

The powerful autobiography of a gambler, drug addict and dealer who turned to God and found the freedom and hope to rebuild his life. Rod Williams...

With no mission board to support or guide her and less than ten dollars in her pocket, Gladys Aylward left her home in England to answer God’s call...

Faith Cook has been a lover of John Bunyan’s work for many years, first encountering him through The Pilgrim’s Progress in preschool years. Later s...

“I need help.” Those three words saved Grammy Award–winning singer Michelle Williams’s life. After decades of sweeping her anxiety and depression u...

The Cross and the Switchblade is rightly regarded as a modern classic. Telling the story of David Wilkerson’s work amongst the gangs in New York, i...

In the Presence of My Enemies, the gripping true story of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham’s year as hostages in the Philippine jung...

In December 2011, Lauren (LoLo) Scruggs, a 23-year-old fashion journalist, suffered a sudden injury that made headlines around the world. She had b...

This is a charming book, describing, in the words of Chris Wright, 'one of the greatest partnerships in church history.' It is a story which John S...

Rejecting his family and Christian upbringing, Andy Robinson wanted everything life had to offer to satisfy his every pleasure. God seemed so limit...

‘In the darkest part of my life, in the middle of the mess and suffering, Jesus was there, holding my hand and giving me the strength I needed to s...

In an exciting novel form, D. L. Moody: God’s Bold Messenger tells the incredible story of one of the greatest evangelists of the nineteenth centur...

What Are You Going to Do? tells the inspiring true story of Everett Swanson, a preacher whose world was turned upside down when he stumbled upon st...

Born into the Dinka Bor tribe in war-torn South Sudan, Michael was ten years old when he began to lose movement in his legs. He and his family soon...

An In-Depth Biography on the Life and Work of Missionary Elisabeth Elliot Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) is one of the most widely known Christians o...

This biography is as gritty a book as you will ever read about a religious figure. You will be inspired to practise the lessons God had pressed int...

Panic snuck up on Brian Johnson while he was out with his son, and it clung to him on his frenzied drive home. Feeling almost outside of himself, h...

Jeff Lucas often describes himself as a Mr Bean of the Christian faith. In his latest book, I Was Just Wandering, theres plenty to entertain and am...

The Diary and Journal of David Brainerd is of much more than merely historical interest. The first internationally recognized biography ever to be ...

This is the story of Jason Armstrong. From childhood he knew nothing but abuse, fighting and crime. He grew into an aggressive adult addicted to v...

Tony Collins started at Hodder & Stoughton in 1974, the first editor to come in ‘off the street’ in the company’s long history. He then trained...

Finalist for the best biography of the year with Christian Book Awards. The life, thought, and legacy of C. S. Lewis - a Prophet for our Times One ...

On the morning of 22nd December 1989, Cornel Lemnariu watched from a small hospital balcony overlooking Bucharest's Palace Square as it was filling...

He grabbed my throat with one hand and pushed the edge of a blade to my neck with the other. “One wrong move and I’ll cut your throat!” I felt the ...

David Bennett came out to his parents as gay when he was fourteen and entered Sydney's active gay community a few years later. In A War of Loves,...

This is the inspirational story of Amelia Jacob, one of the UK’s first female priests – and the very first from Pakistan. Born in Faisalabad, Amel...

No matter how far away we find ourselves from God’s purpose, there is always a second chance... Second Chance is the story of John Mark – the young...

Grow in your relationship with God and others as you follow the journey of two authentic believers who—through trials, trust, and a relentless love...

'What do you have in your hand?' When God asked Moses that question, he was carrying a staff. When God asked Dave Sumner that question, he was ho...

A hidden room, a secret resistance network – and a call to witness for Christ in the darkest of places Corrie ten Boom and her family were watchmak...

Does your knowledge of Martin Luther’s writings start and end with the hymn “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”? As we celebrate the 500th anniversary ...

Stories of faith, hope and thankfulness inspired by the worship anthem The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning; it's time to sing Your song again...