Langley Press

Quaker author and incorrigible bookworm Simon Webb relates his own experience of depression, drawing on insights from the New Testament, the Quaker tradition and the depiction of melancholy in some of the world's great books.

Based on the Advices and Queries of Britain Yearly Meeting, Simon Webb's sequence of forty-two Quaker sonnets tries to distil the essence of Quakerism as he understands it.

A humble tailor and apple-grower from New Jersey, John Woolman became one of the leading voices against the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century.