ADRIAN LEAK’s hardback of more than 300 pages, Aspects of Glory and Other Reflections, includes many essays that previously appeared in the Church Times, while others have been adapted from sermons or pieces that this well-known former parish priest in Guildford wrote for parish magazines. The book is intended to be dipped into rather than read continuously, and is divided into four parts: reflections suggesting “glimpses of glory”; meditations on images associated with the life of Christ; the collects; and brief lives of worthies from church history, but mainly that of the Church of England — as varied as Alcuin, Wyclif, Bunyan, Baring-Gould, the Barnetts, and Óscar Romero (Book Guild, £12.99 (£11.69); 978-1-83574-184-9).
The fifth edition of Colin Chapman’s 1983 book Whose Promised Land? The continuing conflict over Israel and Palestine has been updated to cover the past ten years and the Gaza War (SPCK, £16.99 (£15.29); 978-0-281-09061-7).