Church Beyond Walls: Creative church in public spaces by Martin Poole (Canterbury Press, £16.99 (Church Times Special Price £13.59); 978-1-78622-482-8).

“Church Beyond Walls tells inspiring, informative, and occasionally funny stories of how a group of people took Christian spirituality outside of church buildings to engage a world increasingly uninterested in religion, God, and faith.”

Etheldreda’s World: Princess, Abbess, Saint by Charles Moseley (Merlin Unwin Books, £12.99 (£11.69); 978-1-913159-66-5).

“Dr Charles Moseley’s lively account puts Etheldreda in context, painting a vivid picture which reveals what it was like to be a nun in those days, how marriage was viewed, what the countryside which these intrepid people crisscrossed looked like.”

Augustine in Context, edited by Tarmo Toom (Cambridge University Press, £22.99 (£20.69); 978-1-316-50228-0). New in paperback.

“Augustine in Context assesses the various contexts - historical, literary, cultural, spiritual - in which Augustine lived and worked. The essays, written by an international team of scholars especially for this volume, provide the background against which Augustine’s treatises should be read and interpreted.”

Selected by Frank Nugent, of the Church House Bookshop, which operates the Church Times Bookshop.