Bloomsbury Continuum imprint: 108 books
Notes from the Cévennes
Half a Lifetime in Provincial France
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cévenol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker Prize-nominated Ulverton, now a Vintage Classic.
In...
Last Testament
In His Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Pope Benedict XVI, the only modern-day Pope to retire whilst in office, now finally breaks his silence.
Since retiring from the papacy in 2013, the first Pope in over 700 years to do so, Pope Benedict has lived quietly in a convent in the Vatican gardens in Rome. He has devoted himself to a...
by Sir Roger Scruton
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society. In this thought-provoking book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms,...
Britten's Century
Celebrating 100 Years of Britten
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Britten's Century considers various aspects of Britten's life and work. The book is written by biographers, performers and music critics. Here is a wealth of subject matter - Britten's operatic output, his orchestral works, his contribution to the revival of English song. Biographically, this book...
Vera Brittain and the First World War
The Story of Testament of Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth whilst charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak.
In...
by Dr Tim Cole
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The theme of Tim Cole's Holocaust Landscapes concerns the geography of the Holocaust; the Holocaust as a place-making event for both perpetrators and victims.
Through concepts such as distance and proximity, Professor Cole tells the story of the Holocaust through a number of landscapes where...
Like a Tramp, Like A Pilgrim
On Foot, Across Europe to Rome
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Watching in disbelief as his computer was struck by lightning in 2007, Harry Bucknall had no idea that the subsequent trail of events would lead him to Rome – five years later, on foot.
Following the Via Francigena, the ancient pilgrim path that dates back nearly two thousand years, Harry...
by (The Revd Canon) Patrick Woodhouse
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
On 8 March 1941, a 27-year-old Jewish Dutch student living in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam made the first entry in a diary that was to become one of the most remarkable documents to emerge from the Nazi Holocaust. Over the course of the next two and a half years, an insecure, chaotic and troubled young...
Harry Mount's Odyssey
Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Architecture, art, sculpture, economics, mathematics, science, metaphysics, comedy, tragedy, drama and epic poetry were all devised and perfected by the Greeks. Of the four classical orders of architecture, three were invented by the Greeks and the fourth, the only one the Romans could come up with,...
Royal Books and Holy Bones
Essays in Medieval Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
In these vivid and approachable essays Eamon Duffy engages with some of the central aspects of Western religion in the thousand years between the decline of pagan Rome and the rise of the Protestant Reformation. In the process he opens windows on the vibrant and multifaceted beliefs and practices...
Reformation Divided
Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the events of 1517, Reformation Divided explores the impact in England of the cataclysmic transformations of European Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The religious revolution initiated by Martin Luther is usually referred to as 'The...
Gentle Regrets
Thoughts from a Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Roger Scruton is Britain's best known intellectual dissident, who has defended English traditions and English identity against an official culture of denigration. Although his writings on philosophical aesthetics have shown him to be a leading authority in the field, his defence of political conservatism...
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands
Thinkers of the New Left
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
The thinkers who have been most influential on the attitudes of the New Left are examined in this study by one of the leading critics of leftist orientations in modern Western civilization. Scruton begins with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concludes with a critique of the key strands in its...
by The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Lord Williams of Oystermouth Rowan Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge) Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new book he turns his attention to St Augustine.
St Augustine not only shaped the development...