Saints and Sailors
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Three groups of people come together for a more-or-less godly cruise around the British Isles: to Lindisfarne, the Loch Ness Monster Museum, Iona and Mull, Dublin and the Scilly Isles. There are familiar faces from St Stephens, Dunbridge; some new folk from Neil’s new parish in Derbyshire; and the slightly long-suffering crew, not least her skipper.
A cruise is a great place to make new friends, with leisure for decent conversations. It can also be an awkward, confined space with those you would really rather avoid. Some of the party are facing tough decisions – not least of which, whether to say ‘yes’ – and some tensions just cannot be left on land.
This book is a delight: full of compassion, humour, and Pam’s acute observations.
Meet the author: Pam Rhodes
Pam Rhodes is known around the world as the presenter of BBC Television’s Songs of Praise and her popular Hearts and Hymns programme on Premier Christian Radio. She describes herself as an ‘anorak’ in her fascination for hymns old and new, and her books on hymn-writers, like Love So Amazing, Then Sings My Soul and Hear My Song are essentials in many a church vestry! A natural storyteller with 25 varied books under her belt, Pam is perhaps best known for her novels packed with down-to-earth characters and situations that inspire and entertain.
More books by Pam Rhodes
Christmas at Hope Hall
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The march towards the end of the year sees Hope Hall once again buzzing with activity.The lead up to the Harvest Festival sees a stray dog causing a nuisance, and tensions rise between two old schoolm…
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Summer’s out at Hope Hall
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Springtime at Hope Hall
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Songs of Praise presenter is back with another thrilling read and an unputdownable series centered on a Victorian church hall and Kath, its brash and inexperienced administrator. There’s never a dull…
Publication date: February 21, 2020
With Hearts and Hymns and Voices
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A sparkling novel about the BBC ‘Songs of Praise’ team recording a Palm Sunday broadcast from a small idyllic Suffolk village. As the outside broadcast vehicles roll in, ambitions and emotions run hig…
Publication date: October 15, 2015
If You Follow Me
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In the parish of Dunbridge, hard choices face not only Neil, but also Claire and Wendy. Ben, Claire’s former lover and Sam’s father, arrives back from Australia keen to pick up where they left off. Ne…
Publication date: September 19, 2014
Casting the Net
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Neil returns from ordination inspired by his sense of ministry, but determined to distance himself from the two ladies in his life. This is not altogether well received, and a wide segment of the cong…
Publication date: February 21, 2014
Fisher of Men
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Neil Fisher’s first trip to Dunbridge was not a success. Having inadvertently locked himself in St Stephen’s Church for hours (and succumbing to the communion wine and wafers for dinner) it seemed mir…
Publication date: March 22, 2013
Love So Amazing
Paperback
Pam Rhodes
"Hymns are prayers in our pockets", writes Pam Rhodes, expressing how hymns help us to respond to God. Pam brings together reflections on some of her favourite hymns. Drawing on her experien…
Publication date: January 19, 2018
Then Sings My Soul
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Pam Rhodes is a passionate advocate for our heritage of splendid hymns. Hymns, she explains, help us respond to God: they are "prayers in our pockets". With her warm personal touch she descr…
Publication date: January 19, 2018
Then Sings My Soul
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Pam Rhodes is a passionate advocate for our heritage of splendid hymns. Hymns, she explains, help us respond to God: they are ‘prayers in our pockets’. With her warm personal touch she describes how t…
Publication date: January 15, 2016
Arthur’s Garden
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Pam Rhodes
"As I stand at my kitchen sink and look across at what we optimistically call our herb garden, to one side I see an old wooden sign on which are carved the words ‘Arthur’s Garden’. Arthur doesn’t…
Publication date: April 19, 2019
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