Advent 2024
These Advent books are hot off the press!
See our highlights from 2024's crop of Advent books below, together with some past favourites.
Read the reviews of the latest Advent books in the Church Times here
See also:
The Love That Moves the Sun
Advent hope in a time of crisis
The season of Advent traditionally involved meditation upon the ‘Four Last Things’: heaven, hell, death, and judgement. The Love That Moves the Sun revives this ancient practice and marries it with contemporary concerns, recovering the...
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£12.99
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£12.99
Women of the Nativity
An Advent and Christmas Journey in Nine Stories
Following on from her bestselling Women of Holy Week, Paula Gooder uses her extensive biblical expertise and storytelling skills to recreate the events of the nativity, from the promise of a future people to Sarah, to the presentation in the temple...
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£10.99
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£10.99
The Moment of Truth
Reflections on Incarnation and Resurrection
Christmas and Easter, Advent and Lent, each focus on the central beliefs of Christian faith - Incarnation and Resurrection. In this collection of seasonal reflections, Samuel Wells unpacks the substance of these key Christian doctrines, and explores...
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£12.99
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£12.99
News of Great Joy
The Church Times Book of Christmas
Each year, the Christmas double issue of the Church Times offers a feast of seasonal reading. News of Great Joy draws together the best Christmas writing by outstanding authors and poets over twenty years to create an ideal Christmas gift and a...
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£18.99
£15.19
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£15.19
Let It Slow
An Advent Calendar with a Difference
Christmas is one of the most joyful times of year, and it can also be one of the most stressful. This understanding and uplifting book offers another way to approach December and to discover how its joys and promises can restore our lives, not add...
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£6.99
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£6.99
Frequencies of God
Walking through Advent with R S Thomas
This collection of 28 reflections on R. S. Thomas's poetry travels through the season, and follows one of the traditional patterns of themes explored in each Sunday of Advent: a Carmelite pattern of waiting, accepting, journeying and birthing.
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£12.99
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£12.99
An Advent Book of Days
Meeting the characters of Christmas
An Advent Book of Days tells the stories of all the characters and creatures that make up the Christmas story, with daily prayers and reflections based on their experiences. Fully illustrated in colour, this rich seasonal companion combines the...
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£9.99
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£9.99
Bethlehem Bound
Journeying with the Characters of Christmas
It was not only Mary and Joseph who journeyed to Bethlehem – all the characters and creatures we meet in the nativity stories found their way to the manger, summoned by stars, angels or political circumstance. Each time we celebrate Christmas, we...
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£12.99
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£12.99
In the Bleak Midwinter
Advent and Christmas with Christina Rossetti
Framed by her most famous poems 'In the Bleak Midwinter' and 'Love Came Down at Christmas', this daily devotional explores Advent and Christmas through the poetry of Christina Rossetti. For each day there is a poem with a reflection that draws on...
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£12.99
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£12.99
