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[[Category:Spirituality and Religion|*]]__NOTOC__ <!--Remove -->{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Jankel -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1999731506.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1999731506/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Spiritual Atheist by Nick Seneca Jankel]]=== [[image:2star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] ''Spiritual Atheist'' is a new 'bible' for the spiritual not the religious, according to the tagline. This is a taboo smashing book which solves the problem of modernity and explains how to be a 'spiritual technologist' who can live and love freely in 'spiritual fullness' without relying on a belief in god. Touching on everything from 'brain science' to AI, Jankel offers a 'path to meaning', allowing us to move beyond consumerism towards an ethical life. [[Spiritual Atheist by Nick Seneca Jankel|Full Review]] <!-- Hill -->Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Frederic Seager[[image:Hill_Atlas.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1783706961?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1783706961]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Atlas of Monsters by Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] There are monsters and mysterious characters, such as trolls, leprechauns, goblins and minotaurs. They're the stuff of far too many stories to remain mysterious, and every schoolchild should know all about them. There are monsters and mysterious charactersJesus, such as Gog and Magog, Scylla and Charybdis, and the bunyip. They are what you find if you take an interest in this kind of thing to the next level; even if you cannot place them all on a map you should have come across them. But there are monsters Man and mysterious characters, such as the dobhar-chu, the llambigyn y dwr, and the girtablili. To gain any knowledge of them you really need a book that knows its stuff. A book like this one… [[The Atlas of Monsters by Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence|Full Review]] <!-- Micheal -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Micheal_Revelation.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1524666866?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1524666866]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Revelation ChMyth:25 - A Letter To The Churches From The 24th Elder by Edward K Micheal]]=== [[image:1.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] Edward K Michael has taken the brave step Jewish Reading of laying out his spiritual journey for all to see. It is a deeply personal book and he's honest enough - genuine enough - to wonder if he would have taken a different path if he had known then what he knows now, but he's generous enough too to hope that people will find comfort in the supernatural manifestations he has seen. Before you begin reading you will need to accept that the book seems to have been written without editorial intervention: you are hearing the real man speak and what you will read is very close to stream of consciousness. [[Revelation Ch:25 - A Letter To The Churches From The 24th Elder by Edward K Micheal|Full Review]] <!-- Mahnke -->New Testament|-| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mahnke_Lore.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co4.uk/gp/product/1472251652?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1472251652]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The World of Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Reference|Reference]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] Every country, every town, every village has a folktale – a story passed down through generations that often focuses on the dark and unexplained. No matter how the modern world moves on, there's a still a part of everyone that is vulnerable to a good tale. From ghosts to werewolves, by way of wendigos and elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the reader legends from all over the world, whilst examining how they've become part of our collective imaginations, still striking fear into the hearts of many of us today. [[The World of Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke|Full Review]] <!-- Saxena -->|-| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Saxena_Jaya.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1594749779?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1594749779]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Basic Witches by J Saxena and J Zimmerman]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] Before I started this book I was expecting to be thrown into the world of magic and would know how to levitate by the end of the first chapter. Unsurprisingly, I was wrong. However, what I was met by was a book that explores the origins of witchcraft, teaches you how to dress and act like a witch and contains spells ranging from accepting compliments to conjuring brought up in a relaxing Netflix bingefamily where religion played little or no part. [[Basic Witches by J Saxena Culturally Irish Catholic on one side and J Zimmerman|Full Review]] <!-- Wright -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wright_Universe.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524682012/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Universe and Life but Not Everything by Anthony Christian Wright]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] I often wonder - usually after a moment of shaking my fist at the news Welsh Methodist on TV - what my manifesto for life and society would look like were I to write it down. I have all sorts of thoughts about these things, from the metaphysics of who we are and where we come from, right down to detailed critiques of quite insignificant government policies. I've never done such an exercise - mostly because I lack the timeother, the patience nobody really discussed religion and the diligence required. It seems like an enormous task. [[The Universe and Life but Not Everything by Anthony Christian Wright|Full Review]] <!-- Santiago -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Santiago_Returning.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1504305272/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Returning Home by Stephan Santiago]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] [[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has experienced life in a way that's led him to believe we're all on a soul journey back home – that place we inhabited before we were born. This book is a guide as to how we can optimise this journey for ourselves, those adults around us and our children. [[Returning Home by Stephan Santiago|Full Review]] <!-- Moore -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Moore Buddha.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/9381182299/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakonda]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] I don't do religion, but still there was something that drew me ranged from lapsed to this comic book. For one, the whole Buddhist faith is still a little unknown agnostic to me, and this was certainly going to be educationalatheist. Yes, I knew some of Other than the terms it ends up using, but not others, such as bhikshu, and had never really come across odd church wedding or baptism or the man's life story. Yesschool nativity play, I knew he found enlightenment and taught a very pacifist kind of faith, but where did he come from? What failings did he have on his path, and who were the ones that joined him along the way? [[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakonda|Full Review]] <!-- Wilbourne -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wilbourne_Shepherd.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0283072709/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Shepherd of Another Flock by David Wilbourne]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] [[:Category:David Wilbourne|David Wilbournedidn's]] CV looks like a career path for people who are hard-of-humoured. Banker, teacher of Ancient Greek, vicar, bishop…none of these are jobs normally connected in our minds with a jovial twinkle. Yet in David's case we'd be totally wrong to assume. The current Bishop of Llandaff takes us by the hand to show us episodes from his life as vicar of the character-packed Yorkshire parish of Helmsley proving that tears of sorrow are equally shared with tears of laughter. [[Shepherd of Another Flock by David Wilbourne|Full Review]] <!-- Pigliucci -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Pigliucci_How.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/184604507X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[How to be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] ''Stoicism is t think too much about developing the tools to deal as effectively as humanly possible with the ensuing conflicts, does not demand perfection, and does not provide specific answers.'' For many readers, living in an age of rules to make us happy and the inevitable failure to stick to them, this is an intensely reassuring sentence. Pigliucci certainly makes Stoicism an appealing philosophy, one which can sit alongside religious faith but doesnor what people did or didn't have to, one which doesn't demand Aristotelian heights of intelligence, beauty or riches in order to truly succeed in life, and one which recognises life's messy difficulties. [[How to be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci|Full Review]] <!-- Pearce -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Pearce_Biblical.jpg|link=http://wwwbelieve.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524677280/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Biblical Theology Behind Music, Praise, and Worship by Dr Mark Pearce]]==isbn=B092BWWG9Y [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] Music used in religions and worship itself goes back to the beginning of humankind. In this book musician and theological academic [[:Category:Dr Mark Pearce|Dr Mark Pearce]] explores its Biblical history in a Christian context as well as providing tips and suggestions for those involved in worship in the present day. [[A Biblical Theology Behind Music, Praise, and Worship by Dr Mark Pearce|Full Review]] <!-- Iles -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Iles_Thoughts.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1524676691/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Thoughts and Inner Journey of Dr. John Dee by Clair Iles]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]] [[:Category:Clair Iles|Clair Iles]] is, in her own words, a normal person who was educated at a normal comprehensive school. However, she's a normal person who hears dead people. Yes, Clair is a spiritualist with ability to hear from those who have passed on. In the past they had generally been relatives or everyday folk. Imagine, then, her surprise when she felt she was hearing from Elizabethan court polymath John Dee. Over a period of time she could feel his dictated thoughts and ideas in her mind and this book of the channelled words is the result. [[The Thoughts and Inner Journey of Dr. John Dee by Clair Iles|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrice ChaplinPeter Owen Jones|title=The Stone Cradle Conversations with Nature

|genre=Autobiography Spirituality and Religion|summary= One of the comments made when I was offered this beautiful book for review was that it'The Stone Cradle' is a remarkable book from the author Patrice Chaplins not very long. It is a biography, Having read the third in a series set in the Catalonian city of Girona. It is also an enduring love story and a journey into mystery and spirituality. The city has drawn artists, writers and philosophers for centuries. Rich in Kabbalistic thought through Azrielbook twice over, I'm brought back inescapably to the most famous student of Isaac the BlindSpanish proverb that Life may be short, but it has always been a home for mysticism and secretsis broad. The magnetism and resonance of In this case I'm brought to the city has had a hold on Patrice Chaplin since she first visited it in idea that the fifties. The series length of books detail her journey and her encounters with the esoteric society that have protected its mysteries since ancient times. 'The Stone Cradle' also gives a new life and direction to is not the mysteries of Rennes le Chateau, point; the small French village, made famous by the Da Vinci Code and the Holy Blood and The Holy Grailpoint is its depth. Linking the two places through sacred geometry to the mountain of Canigou Peter Owen Jones dives deep.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190557083X</amazonuk>1912992418

{{Frontpage|author=Richard Brook|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|isbn=1800461682}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Hill_Atlas|title=The Atlas of Monsters|author=Matt WoodcockStuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=There are monsters and mysterious characters, such as trolls, leprechauns, goblins and minotaurs. They're the stuff of far too many stories to remain mysterious, and every schoolchild should know all about them. There are monsters and mysterious characters, such as Gog and Magog, Scylla and Charybdis, and the bunyip. They are what you find if you take an interest in this kind of thing to the next level; even if you cannot place them all on a map you should have come across them. But there are monsters and mysterious characters, such as the dobhar-chu, the llambigyn y dwr, and the girtablili. To gain any knowledge of them you really need a book that knows its stuff. A book like this one…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1999731506|title=Becoming ReverendSpiritual Atheist|author=Nick Seneca Jankel|rating=2|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''Spiritual Atheist'' is a new 'bible' for the spiritual not the religious, according to the tagline. This is a taboo smashing book which solves the problem of modernity and explains how to be a 'spiritual technologist' who can live and love freely in 'spiritual fullness' without relying on a belief in god. Touching on everything from 'brain science' to AI, Jankel offers a 'path to meaning', allowing us to move beyond consumerism towards an ethical life.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789015200|title=Be Your Higher Self|author=Samesh Ramjattan|rating=4|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=There are a lot of self-help books about: A diaryit's one of the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but it's not always easy to find the book you need. Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', a book which allows us all to make sense of our place in the world, as most of us only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. Even with hard work and dedication, obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to understand why or how they can be overcome. Ramjattan offers us a guide to the spirit world, the chakras, karma and reincarnation as well as information about the age of Aquarius and the ego. It's a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Mahnke_Lore|title=The World of Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures|author=Aaron Mahnke

|genre=AutobiographySpirituality and Religion|summary=[[:Category:Matt WoodcockEvery country, every town, every village has a folktale – a story passed down through generations that often focuses on the dark and unexplained. No matter how the modern world moves on, there's a still a part of everyone that is vulnerable to a good tale. From ghosts to werewolves, by way of wendigos and elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the reader legends from all over the world, whilst examining how they've become part of our collective imaginations, still striking fear into the hearts of many of us today.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Saxena_Jaya|title=Basic Witches|author=J Saxena and J Zimmerman|rating=4|genre=Spirituality and Religion|Matt Woodcock]] is enjoying life: successful journalistsummary=Before I started this book I was expecting to be thrown into the world of magic and would know how to levitate by the end of the first chapter. Unsurprisingly, I was wrong. However, what I was met by was a book that explores the origins of witchcraft, happily married teaches you how to dress and act like a new dream home bought witch and heavily mortgagedcontains spells ranging from accepting compliments to conjuring up a relaxing Netflix binge. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Wright_Universe|title=The only cloud Universe and Life but Not Everything|author=Anthony Christian Wright|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=I often wonder - usually after a moment of shaking my fist at the news on the horizon is their struggle TV - what my manifesto for life and society would look like were I to write it down. I have children but they have faith in all sorts of thoughts about these things, from the IVF treatment as itmetaphysics of who we are and where we come from, right down to detailed critiques of quite insignificant government policies. I's early days yetve never done such an exercise - mostly because I lack the time, the patience and the diligence required. It seems like an enormous task.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1850788332|title=Rosie: Note to Self |author=Claire Connor and G P Taylor|rating=3. Then comes 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In the funny turn Matt has first of a five book deal Claire Connor, writing in partnership with GP Taylor, brings us a modern romance based loosely on the way to a story one dayof Ruth from the Bible. This takes him by surprise but is total chick-lit, and from the resulting clergy collar comes as first few pages I thought it was just going to be a total shockvery light, funny romance story. He's However, the story quickly takes a normal bloke who always thought depressing turn and the rest of the book is as much an exploration of himself grief as more pint than piety believing it is a romance novel.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Santiago_Returning|title=Returning Home|author=Stephan Santiago|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=[[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has experienced life in a God whoway that's happy for led him to remain in the pewsbelieve we're all on a soul journey back home – that place we inhabited before we were born. Errrrm… whoops!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781400105</amazonuk>This book is a guide as to how we can optimise this journey for ourselves, those around us and our children.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kurt Vonnegut and Ivan ChermayeffWilbourne_Shepherd|title= Sun Moon StarShepherd of Another Flock|author=David Wilbourne|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingSpirituality and Religion|summary= In his own delightfully imaginative way Kurt Vonnegut tells the story [[:Category:David Wilbourne|David Wilbourne's]] CV looks like a career path for people who are hard-of-humoured. Banker, teacher of the birth Ancient Greek, vicar, bishop…none of Christ these are jobs normally connected in this unique and long out of print childrenour minds with a jovial twinkle. Yet in David's bookcase, we'd be totally wrong to assume. Told from the perspective The current Bishop of Llandaff takes us by the new born infant in hand to show us episodes from his first hours life as vicar of birth, this charming little story feels different to other children's Christmas books whilst at the same time goes back to the basics in exploring the true nature character-packed Yorkshire parish of Helmsley proving that tears of sorrow are equally shared with tears of Christmaslaughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609807243</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jabulani MidziPigliucci_How|title=The Forbidden Tree: History or Folklore?How to be a Stoic|author=Massimo Pigliucci

|summary=This ''Stoicism is indeed a good question that not even Christians can agree on. The spectrum goes from about developing the right wing Evangelical literalists who believe right down tools to deal as effectively as humanly possible with the creationensuing conflicts, does not demand perfection, and does not provide specific answers.'s 7 days being just that' For many readers, all living in an age of rules to make us happy and the way over inevitable failure to the left wing Anglo Catholic liberalsstick to them, some of whom take issue with the virgin birth and the crucifixionthis is an intensely reassuring sentence. Staking my colours Pigliucci certainly makes Stoicism an appealing philosophy, one which can sit alongside religious faith but doesn't have to the mast, Ione which doesn'm t demand Aristotelian heights of intelligence, beauty or riches in the middle, believing that the Bible should be taken order to truly succeed in historical contextlife, that it does contain Old Testament myths and some accounts clearly written in a one-sided way but I firmly believe in Jesus, the miracles etcwhich recognises life's messy difficulties.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524661910</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bhakti MathurPearce_Biblical|title=AmmaA Biblical Theology Behind Music, Tell Me About Diwali!Praise, and Worship|author=Dr Mark Pearce

|genre=For SharingSpirituality and Religion|summary=Klaka had celebrated Diwali Music used in religions and it had been great fun - a wonderful, beautiful day and tonight worship itself goes back to the city is lit up by thousands and thousands beginning of lightshumankind. Amma In this book musician and daddy had given many gifts to their boy and Klaka and his brother had lit the earthen oil lamps known theological academic [[:Category:Dr Mark Pearce|Dr Mark Pearce]] explores its Biblical history in a Christian context as well as diyas. They didn't just eat providing tips and have a good time - they also offered their prayers suggestions for good fortune, prosperity and health to Ganesha, those involved in worship in the God of new beginnings and to Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth. But Klaka was curious: ''Amma'' he said, ''tell me about Diwali''present day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881502888</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Iles_Thoughts|title= Cees Nooteboom The Thoughts and Laura Watkinson (Translator)Inner Journey of Dr. John Dee|titleauthor= Letters to PoseidonClair Iles|rating= 43.5|genre= TravelSpirituality and Religion|summary= A serviette[[:Category:Clair Iles|Clair Iles]] is, in her own words, a glass of champagne taken outside normal person who was educated at a fish restaurant in the open-air Viktualienmarkt in Munichnormal comprehensive school. However, all taken to celebrate the first day of springshe's a normal person who hears dead people. Yes, prompt Cees Nooteboom into Proustian reverie. Upon the paper napkin Clair is written in blue capitals the word POSEIDON, the Greek god a spiritualist with ability to hear from those who has preoccupied Nooteboom's thoughts for several summershave passed on. The blue colour reminds him of In the sea viewed past they had generally been relatives or everyday folk. Imagine, then, her surprise when she felt she was hearing from Mediterranean garden of his villa in MenorcaElizabethan court polymath John Dee. Taking this prompting as a moment of benign synchronicity, he later begins Over a correspondence with this sea-deity. He seeks to inquire how this somewhat unreliable ancient Greek Olympian sees aeons period of time she could feel his dictated thoughts and sends him letters ideas in her mind and legenda; meditations and stories to be read, both poetic and tragic, from this book of the arts and channelled words is the contemporary world. He is not expecting a replyresult.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782066209</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison PickWoodcock_Becoming|title=Between GodsBecoming Reverend: A diary|author=Matt Woodcock|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographySpirituality and Religion|summary= Alison Pick[[:Category:Matt Woodcock|Matt Woodcock]] is enjoying life: successful journalist, happily married and a new dream home bought and heavily mortgaged. The only cloud on the horizon is their struggle to have children but they have faith in the IVF treatment as it's paternal grandparents escaped Czechoslovakia just before early days yet. Then comes the Holocaust funny turn Matt has on the way to a story one day. This takes him by bribing surprise but the Nazis resulting clergy collar comes as a total shock. He's a normal bloke who always thought of himself as more pint than piety believing in a God who's happy for visas him to Canada; remain in the rest of pews. Errrrm… whoops!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Chaplin_Stone|title=The Stone Cradle|author=Patrice Chaplin|rating=5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=''The Stone Cradle'' is a remarkable book from the author Patrice Chaplin. It is a biography, the family died third in a series set in Auschwitzthe Catalonian city of Girona. They spent their whole lives trying to pass as ChristiansIt is also an enduring love story and a journey into mystery and spirituality. The city has drawn artists, writers and Pick's fatherphilosophers for centuries. Rich in Kabbalistic thought through Azriel, toothe most famous student of Isaac the Blind, was reluctant to it has always been a home for mysticism and secrets. The magnetism and resonance of the city has had a hold on Patrice Chaplin since she first visited it in the fifties. The series of books detail her journey and her encounters with the esoteric society that have anything protected its mysteries since ancient times. 'The Stone Cradle' also gives a new life and direction to do with Judaismthe mysteries of Rennes le Chateau, the small French village, made famous by the Da Vinci Code and the Holy Blood and The Holy Grail. Pick only learned he was Jewish Linking the two places through a conversation overheard when she was 11sacred geometry to the mountain of Canigou.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472225090</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher DellVonnegut_Sun|title=Mythology: An Illustrated Journey Into Our Imagined WorldsSun Moon Star|author=Kurt Vonnegut and Ivan Chermayeff

|summary=What does a rainbow mean to you? How would you explain In his own delightfully imaginative way, Kurt Vonnegut tells the creation story of the world if you had no science as such, or birth of Christ in this unique and long out of print children's book. Told from the changing perspective of the seasons? What other kinds new born infant in his first hours of natures – chaotic trickerybirth, evil personae or even this charming little story feels different to other children's Christmas books whilst at the characteristics of goats – people your world? And why is it that the answers man and woman have collectively formed same time goes back to such questions have been so similar across the oceans and across the centuries? This highly pictorial volume looks at basics in exploring the mythologies that formed those answers, and locks on to a multitude true nature of subjects – blood, music, godly activity – to show us what has followedChristmas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500291519</amazonuk>