The Catholic books list

A few emails a year. Only about these books

Sloanes Media publishes two things. This list is about the second one.

It exists so that people who want to hear about the Catholic titles can, without the road trip list getting emails it never signed up for. If you end up on both, they don't overlap — you'd just get each one when it's relevant.

What you'll get

A short email when a book is ready, and occasionally one when there's something worth saying about a book being made. Realistically a few a year, sometimes fewer.

What you won't get

Anything weekly. Anything about road trips, unless you're already on that list. Anything I wouldn't want to receive myself.

What's coming

  • The Imitation of Christ — a new modern English translation from the Latin, in a pocket edition. Available now.

  • The Rosary Companion — scripture, sacred art, a reflection and a daily resolution for every mystery. Available now.

  • From Chore to Christ: 30 Days to Love the Rosary — printing in December.

  • Medjugorje: A Pilgrim's Doubt — printing in January.

They're written for people who find prayer harder than they expected to. If that isn't you, they'll still make sense. If it is, they'll make more.

Printing this winter

Two new titles are at the printer. Put your name against either and you'll get one email when it's ready — nothing else.

From Chore to Christ:
30 Days to Love the Rosary

A thirty-day journey for anyone who finds the Rosary repetitive, hard to concentrate on, or — the author's own word for it — a chore.

Each day sets you inside one of the mysteries: the chill in the morning air, the creak of the rope pulled firm, the crowd going quiet. Then it asks for one decade, prayed properly. By day thirty you'll have prayed the whole Rosary and understood why each part of it is there.

Foreword by Fr Martin Francis Morris.

178 pages · paperback

Medjugorje: A Pilgrim's Doubt

A pilgrimage written the way this publisher writes road trips — the 3am alarm, the card-only tills, the queue in the heat, the table of smokers downwind at dinner. And underneath all of it, the question the title admits to.

Fourteen chapters, among them This Looks Like Absolute Hell, A Complete and Utter Farce and What If It Is All a Lie. It ends where its epigraph begins: Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.

Not an argument for Medjugorje. Not an argument against it. An account of going there unsure.

220 pages · fabric hardback with foil and dust jacket