Lion Books imprint: 168 books
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Making of a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Long before the successful The Lord of the Rings films, J.R.R. Tolkien's creations, imagination, and characters had captured the attention of millions of readers. But who was the man who dreamt up the intricate languages and perfectly crafted world of Middle-earth? Tolkien had a difficult life, for...
C S Lewis
A biography of friendships
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
An Oxford student of C.S. Lewis's said he found his new tutor interesting, and was told by J.R.R. Tolkien, 'Interesting? Yes, he's certainly that. You'll never get to the bottom of him.' You can learn a great deal about people by their friends and nowhere is this more true than in the case of C.S....
by Penny Rich
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
First Steps through Separation and Divorce' provides practical help, comfort and advice for anyone considering or experiencing separation or divorce. It provides an introduction to legal issues and where to seek legal help, useful tips on how to move on and build a new life, and words of comfort to...
How Can I Forgive?
Steps to forgiveness and healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Once in a while, we may experience a hurt which stops us in our tracks. We feel shocked, outraged. It is unforgivable. Yet bitterness, resentment, failure to forgive can destroy us from within. So how can we forgive? Is forgiveness always right? Is there a source outside ourselves which gives us the...
Sixty Minute Debt Buster
An hour to transform your finances
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Millions of consumers worldwide have become trapped in a vicious spiral of debt. In the UK alone, the average owed by adults is £29,747, a sum which grows at a painfully high rate. But what can be done about it? It so easily gets out of control and there comes a point when you just don't think you'll...
Shouting into the Silence
One man's fight for the world's forgotten
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Torture, sexual abuse, cruelty - children and adults are in danger all over the world, often because no-one is prepared to speak on their behalf. Occasional voices do cry out - and, for quarter of a century, one of the strongest has been that of Danny Smith. In 1981, he set out to free seven people,...
The A-Z of C.S. Lewis
An encyclopaedia of his life, thought, and writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This fascinating volume brings together all the aspects of C S Lewis's life and thought. It will delight anyone who is interested in C S Lewis and wants to learn more about him. Arranged in alphabetical order The A-Z of C S Lewis begins with The Abolition of Man a book written in 1943 and described...
The Oxford Inklings
Lewis, Tolkien and their circle
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
The Oxford Inklings tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings, the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Meeting in pubs or Lewis's college rooms, they included an influential array of literary figures. They were, claimed...
John Milton
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
John Milton has usually been regarded as 'the other great poet' in English literature, after Shakespeare. He is the only one of the world's great poets also to have been actively engaged in politics. A radical Protestant and staunch republican, he served as Latin secretary to Oliver Cromwell during...
Losing a Child
Finding a path through the pain
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
The loss of a child may happen in many different ways. But each lost child is precious. And behind each loss there is grief. How can we cope with the shock and the pain? Where can we turn for help? Who will answer the 'whys' and 'if onlys'? This is a helpful, positive book. It faces the pain but also offers encouragement and hope. It includes material on losing a baby during pregnancy.
Whose Promised Land
The Continuing Conflict Over Israel and Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has profoundly affected the Middle East for almost seventy years, and shows no sign of ending. With two peoples claiming the same piece of land for different reasons, it remains a huge political and humanitarian problem. Can it ever be resolved? If...
The Queen and the Heretic
How two women changed the religion of England
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
The dual biography of two remarkable women - Catherine Parr and Anne Askew. One was the last queen of a powerful monarch, the second a countrywoman from Lincolnshire. But they were joined together in their love for the new learning - and their adherence to Protestantism threatened both their lives....
1536
The Year that Changed Henry VIII
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
One of the best-known figures of British history, collective memory of Henry VIII presents us with the image of a corpulent, covetous, and cunning king whose appetite for worldly goods met few parallels, whose wives met infamously premature ends, and whose religion was ever political in intent. 1536...
And Man Created God
Is God a human invention?
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
This book addresses one of the oldest questions posed to religious believers: if God made everything, who made God? Most recently levelled by the New Atheists, the question was asked in ancient Greece and has preoccupied religious believers in the centuries since. Here, renowned scholar Robert Banks...