Seize the Day: How the dying teach us to live by Marie de Hennezel (Macmillan, £12.99 (£11.70); 978-1-4472-0577-7).
Personhood and Presence: Self as a resource for spiritual and pastoral care by Ewan Kelly (T. & T. Clark, £16.99 (£15.30); 978-0-567-28328-3).
A Sociology of Spirituality, edited by Kieran Flanagan and Peter C. Jupp (Ashgate, £19.99 (£18); 978-1-4094-0259-6).
The Picador Book of Funeral Poems, edited by Don Paterson (Picador, £9.99 (£9); 978-0-330-45687-6).
The Picador Book of Birth Poems, edited by Kate Clanchy (Picador, £9.99 (£9); 978-0-330-45685-2).
Selected by Aude Pasquier, of the Church House Bookshop, which operates the Church Times Bookshop.