A gift for Easter?

For your parish priest or a priest blogger?

There is a cornucopia of Catholic books, some very old, in John Bevan's latest catalogue.

John has been the leading British Catholic bookseller of old and antiquarian books for at least forty years and many of his works go overseas to the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

For a very modest outlay of £10 you could buy the spirit of St Therese of the Infant Jesus as shown forth by her writings and the testimony of eye witnesses (published 1925) or for a slightly less modest £75 you could order Ribadeneira's Illustrium Scriptorum Religionis Societas Iesu Catalogue of 1609.

I believe that the catalogue is online at www.catholic-books.co.uk - it does make fascinating reading.

If you want a good read...look no further!

My old friend, John Bevan of Catholic Books has sent me his latest catalogue of treasures (of course, online is good but a catalogue that you may hold in your hand and drool over is quite another matter).

John will be well known to many of you. He is the eldest of the legendary Bevan family (Bevan Family Choir) and has 14 siblings. He specialises in rare and unusual Catholic literature.
He once told me that, so very often, when he is invited to view a Convent or religious house that is selling off  its books, there would be gaps in the bookshelves and, upon enquiry he would be told: "Those were the old traditional volumes, we've burnt those". Shame on anyone who would burn a Catholic book!

Many of John's customers come from the USA and, whilst it is sad to see rare books disappearing overseas, we only have ourselves to blame; at least they will be well cared for.

So, if a copy of what is intriguingly titled  "What Jesus saw from the Cross" appeals to you at a mere £8.50 or, if you are feeling a little more flush and would like a copy of Fr Guy Tachard's account of travels in Siam (Thailand) at a trifling £1800 - pay John a visit (by appointment only) or, request  a catalogue :
orders@catholicbooks.co.uk