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'Lyrical, compelling and full of insight. I found this very hard to put down.' KATIE FFORDE, THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Catherine Fox writes with immense compassion, unsentimental faith and an impressively undisciplined humour.' ROWAN WILLIAMS, FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY January 2020. Freddie, Father Dominic, Jane and all the other residents of Lindfordshire are celebrating the New Year with parties and resolutions. None of them is aware of the trials and tribulations the coming months will bring - not least the horseman of the apocalypse who has set out quietly, with barely a jingle of harness, in a distance province of China . . . Return to Lindchester once more with Tales from Lindford, the fourth in the beloved series of novels from Catherine Fox. Valiantly written in real time in the midst of the pandemic, this entertaining book captures the difficulties of 2020 with heart, humour and insight. Perfect for Lindchester fans, it's also the ideal novel for anyone seeking comfort and a way of understanding all that has been happening. A twenty-first century Barchester that fans of Barbara Pym and the BBC's Rev will love, this new volume in the Lindchester Chronicles is contemporary Christian fiction at its finest. Tales from Lindford will make you laugh, cry and leave you with hope that grace can be found even in the darkest times.
Tales from Lindford, the (unexpected) fourth novel in the Lindchester Chronicles by Catherine Fox, finds the residents of Lindchester facing challenging times as 2020 unfolds . . .
About the Author
Catherine Fox was educated at Durham and London Universities and has a degree in English and a PhD in Theology. She is the author of four adult novels, Angels and Men, The Benefits of Passion, Love for the Lost and Unseen Things Above, which explore the themes of the spiritual and the physical with insight and humour. In 2007, Yellow Jersey Press published Fight the Good Fight: From Vicar's Wife to Killing Machine in which Catherine relates her quest to achieve a black belt in Judo. Her first teen fantasy novel, WolfTide, came out in 2013. She teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University and lives in Liverpool, where her husband is dean of the cathedral.
Reviews
Lyrical, compelling and full of insight. I found this very hard to put down. -- Katie Fforde, The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestselling Author [on Tales from Lindford]
I hope Catherine Fox will forgive me if I say she doesn't write like an angel; she writes like a human being, with immense compassion, unsentimental faith and an impressively undisciplined humour. Not many writers give such a vivid sense of what it is actually like to try and live in the light of absolute mercy. Very few indeed do it with such brilliance and freshness of language. -- Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury [on Tales from Lindford]
Bitter-sweet . . . but all the usual qualities of empathy, wit and unflaunted piety -- Diarmaid MacCulloch, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford (on Tales from Lindford)
True, kind, sharp and so beautifully written. Brings it all back, the dull ache of lockdown, but lightened by a shimmering veil of wit, compassion and just - precisely - the right words. -- Maggie Gee, novelist and Professor of Creative Writing, Bath Spa University (on Tales from Lindford)
What makes Realms of Glory such a delight is the humour, humanity and the strong characters . . . that come off the page and hang around in your head . . . This is not safe Christian fiction, because we don't live in a safe Christian world. * Christianity [on Realms of Glory] *
What a treat it is to have some Fresh Expressions from the diocese of Lindchester. Catherine Fox's second helping of bad language, sex and Evensong is Anglicanism at its best; her wit, compassion and rueful optimism are irresistible. -- Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford [on Unseen Things Above]
Catherine Fox's glorious Lindchester series is the twenty-first-century answer to Trollope's Barchester - but Trollope was never so funny, so fundamentally kind, or so mischievously attentive to grace. -- Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill [on Unseen Things Above]
Unsure what to buy the Trollope devotee in your life for Christmas? Look no further than Catherine Fox's Acts and Omissions and Unseen Things Above for a refresher course not only in cathedral politics, but also a set of profound, although lightly drawn, insights into the contemporary Anglican communion. -- Janet Beer * The Times Higher Education [on the first two volumes in The Lindchester Chronicles] *
These books are utterly unputdownable, gossipy, subtle and wise. What's astonishing is that despite Catherine Fox's sharp awareness of the feet of clay under surplices, she somehow makes you believe several cheering things that most modern fiction doesn't: that the natural world is endlessly beautiful, that most people aspire to goodness even if they fall flat on their faces, and that the attempt to live a good life is worthwhile. -- Maggie Gee, novelist & Professor of Creative Writing, Bath Spa University [on the first two volumes in The Lindchester Chronicles]
Book Information
ISBN 9781910674659
Author Catherine Fox
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Marylebone House
Publisher SPCK Publishing
Weight(grams) 298g
Tales from Lindford, the (unexpected) fourth novel in the Lindchester Chronicles by Catherine Fox, finds the residents of Lindchester facing challenging times as 2020 unfolds . . .
About the Author
Catherine Fox was educated at Durham and London Universities and has a degree in English and a PhD in Theology. She is the author of four adult novels, Angels and Men, The Benefits of Passion, Love for the Lost and Unseen Things Above, which explore the themes of the spiritual and the physical with insight and humour. In 2007, Yellow Jersey Press published Fight the Good Fight: From Vicar's Wife to Killing Machine in which Catherine relates her quest to achieve a black belt in Judo. Her first teen fantasy novel, WolfTide, came out in 2013. She teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University and lives in Liverpool, where her husband is dean of the cathedral.
Reviews
Lyrical, compelling and full of insight. I found this very hard to put down. -- Katie Fforde, The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestselling Author [on Tales from Lindford]
I hope Catherine Fox will forgive me if I say she doesn't write like an angel; she writes like a human being, with immense compassion, unsentimental faith and an impressively undisciplined humour. Not many writers give such a vivid sense of what it is actually like to try and live in the light of absolute mercy. Very few indeed do it with such brilliance and freshness of language. -- Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury [on Tales from Lindford]
Bitter-sweet . . . but all the usual qualities of empathy, wit and unflaunted piety -- Diarmaid MacCulloch, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford (on Tales from Lindford)
True, kind, sharp and so beautifully written. Brings it all back, the dull ache of lockdown, but lightened by a shimmering veil of wit, compassion and just - precisely - the right words. -- Maggie Gee, novelist and Professor of Creative Writing, Bath Spa University (on Tales from Lindford)
What makes Realms of Glory such a delight is the humour, humanity and the strong characters . . . that come off the page and hang around in your head . . . This is not safe Christian fiction, because we don't live in a safe Christian world. * Christianity [on Realms of Glory] *
What a treat it is to have some Fresh Expressions from the diocese of Lindchester. Catherine Fox's second helping of bad language, sex and Evensong is Anglicanism at its best; her wit, compassion and rueful optimism are irresistible. -- Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford [on Unseen Things Above]
Catherine Fox's glorious Lindchester series is the twenty-first-century answer to Trollope's Barchester - but Trollope was never so funny, so fundamentally kind, or so mischievously attentive to grace. -- Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill [on Unseen Things Above]
Unsure what to buy the Trollope devotee in your life for Christmas? Look no further than Catherine Fox's Acts and Omissions and Unseen Things Above for a refresher course not only in cathedral politics, but also a set of profound, although lightly drawn, insights into the contemporary Anglican communion. -- Janet Beer * The Times Higher Education [on the first two volumes in The Lindchester Chronicles] *
These books are utterly unputdownable, gossipy, subtle and wise. What's astonishing is that despite Catherine Fox's sharp awareness of the feet of clay under surplices, she somehow makes you believe several cheering things that most modern fiction doesn't: that the natural world is endlessly beautiful, that most people aspire to goodness even if they fall flat on their faces, and that the attempt to live a good life is worthwhile. -- Maggie Gee, novelist & Professor of Creative Writing, Bath Spa University [on the first two volumes in The Lindchester Chronicles]
Book Information
ISBN 9781910674659
Author Catherine Fox
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Marylebone House
Publisher SPCK Publishing
Weight(grams) 298g
