Summer Reading: Biographies

'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...

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

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...

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...

A teenage trip to the beach, a diving accident, and a life of disability testifies to the goodness of God. Joni Eareckson Tada is a Christian autho...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This compelling reconstruction of the life and thought of St Paul paints a vivid picture of the Roman world in which he preached his revolutionary ...

How do you keep going when everything seems to be falling apart? Not Forgotten begins at a moment of chaos and despair for Chris Lane and Salford’...

There is a moving story of a dog who hears the word ‘no’ said to him so many times that he starts to answer to it as if it were his name. What we a...

Judy Moore is back following the success of The Dog Who Thought His Name Was No with more anecdotes that will make you laugh and make you think. Go...

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...

‘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...

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 ...

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

An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by f...

For most people, parenting a longed-for child is an awesome privilege and joy. However that doesn’t mean there aren’t daily challenges. With honest...

The wait… There she was again, in the corner of the room, rocking backwards and forwards, hugging her knees tightly to her chest. She wouldn’t move...

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...

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...

One man’s journey from guns and gangs to a God of grace. Abused as a child, Tommy had the hardest of starts. And it didn’t get any better. Guns, ga...

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 ...

Protection. Prayer. Providence. People. People throughout history have shared stories to entertain, to inform, to inspire. Christ’s people do this...

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...

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...

A young man on the hippy trail finds more than he expected as he encounters God on his journey to find spiritual truth. Geoff Walvin's life becomes...

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...

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...

Born in the northeast of Scotland, John Ross arrived in Manchuria in 1870 and spent 40 years of his life there. He left behind an amazing legacy of...

Have you heard of Spurgeon? Preacher, evangelist and stalwart patriarch of the Modern Western Church today. If the cliché ‘behind every great man ...

Dementia is experienced in different forms, in different ways and is coped with differently by different people, but with nearly 10 million new cas...

Get to know the man, Gary Chapman. You just might discover yourself along the way. Most of us have heard of Gary Chapman, the man who helped the wo...

Learn how to work your way through life's unexpected challenges with grace and find a deeper faith while on your journey. In this biblical and conv...

It’s easy to imagine that Christian women of the past were shrinking violets who were side-lined and excluded from making a difference in the churc...

The CIA is looking for walking contradictions. Recruiters seek out potential agents who can keep a secret yet pull classified information out of ot...

Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe savagely speared her husband Jim and his four colleagu...

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,...

Premier league footballer turned pastor Gavin Peacock tells the story of his career and his faith in this fascinating, thought–provoking and person...