Praying with the Bible: An Ignatian guide by Nikolaas Sintobin (Messenger Publications, £12.95 (£11.65); 978-1-78812-692-2).

“The Ignatian way of praying with the Bible is simple and subtle at the same time. It is accessible to young and old alike. There are no prerequisites. You can pray with it for five minutes, you can pray with it for an hour or more. This easy to read book gives you fifty tips on all possible aspects of this way of praying with the Bible.”

A Pilgrimage of the Heart: Walter Hilton and the English mystical tradition by Kevin Goodrich (DLT, £16.99 (£15.29); 978-1-915412-13-3).

“Kevin Goodrich’s lively, devotional, and practical guide to the teachings of fourteenth- century mystic, Walter Hilton of Thurgarton, one of the great medieval figures of the English spiritual tradition is the most accessible full-length introduction to Hilton written.” 

The Theological Imagination: Perception and interpretation in life, art, and faith by Judith Wolfe (Cambridge University Press, £24.99 (£22.49); 978-1-009-51986-1).

“How can we live truthfully in a world riddled with ambiguity, contradiction, and clashing viewpoints? We make sense of the world imaginatively, resolving ambiguous and incomplete impressions into distinct forms and wholes. But the images, objects, words, and even lives of which we make sense in this way always have more or other possible meanings. Judith Wolfe argues that faith gives us courage both to shape our world creatively, and reverently to let things be more than we can imagine.” 

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