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Top ten christian titles

by
02 August 2019

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(previous month’s position in brackets)

  1. Anglican Women Novelists, edited by Judith Maltby and Alison Shell (Bloomsbury, £27.99) (-)
  2. The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr (SPCK, £9.99) (1)
  3. A History of the Bible by John Barton (Allen Lane, £25) (9)
  4. Walk Humbly by Samuel Wells (Canterbury Press, £12.99) (7)
  5. A Year of Grace by David Hoyle (Canterbury Press, £14.99) (-)
  6. Antisemitism by Julia Neuberger (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £8.99) (4)
  7. We Need One Another by Jean Vanier (SPCK, £9.99) (5)
  8. Richard Dawkins, C. S. Lewis and the Meaning of Life by Alister McGrath (SPCK, £7.99) (10)
  9. Jane Haining by Mary Miller (Birlinn, £14.99) (-)
  10.     The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong (Bodley Head, £25) (-)

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