Books
To the Eel Island: An Evening Journey
Ludlow: Merlin Unwin, 2025
On one level, a story about moving, in old age, from a village to a nearby town, in this case the city of Ely. But also a moving exploration of ‘belonging’ and of moving on, of the layers of past generations of the local people who have shaped the new place, and the changes over the years wrought by nature and the shifting Fenland landscape.
A Joyful Noise: Some Hymnwriters, their Times and their hymns
London: Darton Longman and Todd, 2024
‘A Joyful Noise is a marvellous volume, to be commended to clergy, musicians and congregation alike. Hymns remain a lynchpin of our faith and this book helps us think about them in new and insightful way.’ – Fergus Butler-Gallie
Etheldreda’s World: Princess Abbess Saint
Ludlow: Merlin Unwin, 2023
By any standards, Etheldreda was a remarkable woman in a time of remarkable women. Far from being the wishy washy figure of so much stained glass, she was – had to be – a tough operator. Great saints are not pushovers. She got her way. She changed the map in the Not-Yet-England of her time (c. 636 AD-679 AD).
What was it like to be a Princess then, an Abbess in a land where the old gods were still honoured by many? What power did women in her position wield? What did it mean to be revered as a Saint? More..
To Everything a Season: the View from the FenMerlin Unwin Books, 2022
To Everything a Season is a beautifully crafted personal and reflective account of many years of the changing seasons, from autumn to autumn, in and around a village on the edge of the Cambridge Fenland. It is an uplifting reflection about change: what was, what is, what will be. More..
Crossroad: A Pilgrimage of Unknowing
Darton, Longman & Todd, 2022
Charles Moseley invites you to share with him many journeys, each in their way a kind of pilgrim quest. You can read them as a guide for you to follow, literally, in his footsteps – to Iona, Lindisfarne, Walsingham, Aran. Or you can walk alongside him in the spirit of faltering honesty, wry humour, spiritual questing, and the ever-present appreciation of landscape, ancient resonances, a tasty sandwich, a pair of good boots and a trusty stick. More..
Hungry Heart Roaming – An Odyssey of Sorts
Eyewear Books, 2021
The men running the little Calmac ferry from Fionnphort to Iona must have one of the most boring jobs in one of the most beautiful places in west Scotland – though the fast currents and rips in the sound can be tricky. Ten minutes to the holy place, with a whiff of diesel and hot engine. And back again. More..
Coming to Terms: Cambridge In and Out
London: IndieBooks, 2017
An undergraduate prank, of some finesse. Two young council workmen, way back in the 60s, were digging up a patch of King’s Parade, just where it was causing maximum inconvenience to a road then still open to through traffic. More..
Latitude North
London: IndieBooks, 2015
As the ebb gathered speed, the Saltstraum, which we had crossed at dead slack water, began to fret itself into little eddies, and then whirlpools, and then overfalls, and then massive standing waves in which no small boat could have lived. More..
Between the Tides: A Lancashire Youth
Ormskirk: Beaten Track Publishing, 2014
The sea and the beach were never far from the mind of anyone I knew. It was amenity — it was why the town was there. At Fleetwood, it was employment, for the fishing dominated the town. More..