Quaker history and biography

Sarah Biller spent a turbulent childhood as the daughter of Alexander Kilham, Methodist rebel and founder of a breakaway church.

This book outlines the long and at times surprisingly turbulent and moving story of the Reading Quaker Meeting.

Though there have never been many Quakers, these small numbers belie the sect's tremendous impact, both historical and contemporary.

Quaker views on women have always been considered progressive in their own time (beginning in the 17th century), and in the late 19th century this tendency bore fruit in the prominence of Quaker women in the American women's rights movement.

The iron curtain was giving way or at least becoming permeable in the age of perestroika.

Sheila Hancock sat down to write a book about a serene and fulfilled old age. This is not that book. In Old Rage, one of Britain's best-loved actors opens up about her tenth decade.

English cowboy, tramp, author, adulterer, social reformer, preacher. This lovingly written, but brutally honest, biography by the subject's grandson belongs to an unusual genre - the spiritual thriller.