Joseph Pearce

Tales from Wakken Wood

Children & Youth

“In the midst of the Irish Sea is a real-life enchanted island called the Isle of Man. Inspired by the folklore of this island, Tales from Wakken Wood takes us deep into the Celtic mists of legend and the deepest mysteries of life. Wandering into Wakken Wood is like walking through the wardrobe of our imagination into a land in which even the trees are awake. It is somewhere strange and yet somewhere strangely close to home, somewhere as weird and wonderful as Middle-earth or Narnia.”

The Art of Michael D. O'Brien

Arts & Literature

“Those of us who know Michael O'Brien's fiction will delight in this volume of his art. His work is quintessentially personal, in the sense that it incarnates the extraordinary vision of this marvelous man.”

The Death of a Pope

Fiction

“The Death of a Pope is a faith-driven theological thriller, narrated by a storyteller of the first order whose unassailable orthodoxy is as refreshing as it is rare among the bedraggled ranks of contemporary novelists.”

The Eighth Arrow

Fiction

“It takes a very gifted writer to do what Father Wetta has done. He takes two of civilization's greatest storytellers and melds and molds their works into something new and astonishingly fresh. At home with Homer and undaunted by Dante, he leads us through Dante's Hell in the company of Homer's heroes. He does so with an enchanting interweaving of gravitas and levitas, plumbing intellectual depths with a lighthearted and humorous touch. Never has a journey through Hell been this much fun!”

The Flying Inn

Fiction

“The Flying Inn is the most rambunctious of Chesterton's novels, a rollicking ramble through the heart of merry England, in which our intrepid heroes stay one step ahead of the enemies of civilization.”

The Fool of New York City

Fiction

“Michael O'Brien takes one's breath away, not only by the quality of his writing and his gift as a first-rate storyteller, but in his seemingly endless versatility. In The Fool of New York City we are at once rooted in the nitty-gritty grime of modern life and yet raised to a supernatural wonderland of hope.”

The Gaze of Jesus

Fiction

“This wonderful novel is as timely as it is timeless. Putting ourselves in the presence of its pages puts us into the presence of Christ.”

The Great Heresies

History & Biography

“The Great Heresies is a masterpiece of intellectual history which takes us on a journey across the landscape of the centuries. With the inimitable Belloc as our guide we follow the path of the Church Militant as she passes, sure-footed with the grace of orthodoxy, through the quagmire of errors which characterize the prideful wanderings of the human mind and heart.”

The Last Crusader

Fiction

“A page-turning thriller. Exhilarating!”

The Lighthouse

Fiction

“Can a man be an island? Can he be the captain of his soul? And what's the difference between solitude and loneliness? Such questions are at the courageous heart of this story of one man's quest to make sense of himself and the world in which he finds himself.”

The Lovely Sight of Ithaca

Arts & Literature

“Michael Williams’ muse teeters on the brink of the abyss, veering between all too rare ecstasies of bliss and the blistered extremities of recurring dejection. His consummately skillful pen masters form in the war with formlessness, extracting sense from senselessness like living blood from cold-hardened stone. From out of these depths, the sense of being cursed by life is checked by the kiss of beauty which is God’s presence in the darkest night of the soul.”

The Making of C. S. Lewis

History & Biography

“There are few more-erudite scholars of Lewis alive today than Harry Lee Poe. This being so, this long-expected second volume of Poe’s three-part intellectual life of Lewis is most welcome. Taking Lewis’s intellectual journey from his atheist youth to his work as a middle-aged Christian apologist, Poe serves as the perfect guide to his subject’s emergence as one of the most powerful voices in the English-speaking world.”

The Man Who Was Thursday

Fiction

“Gardner's annotating of Chesterton's famous novel is a delight. His notes bring Edwardian London to life, and he offers exciting new insights into thenovel's meaning.”

The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis

Arts & Literature

“As the author of A Beginner's Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy, Jason M. Baxter is uniquely qualified to guide us through the medieval mind of C. S. Lewis. Those wishing to delve deeper into the ancient roots of Lewis's inspiration and imagination need look no further. Professor Baxter, like Virgil, is a trustworthy guide.”

The Mystery of Joy

Christian Living

“Peter Kreeft writes so well! He is a master of profundity and succinctness, an author with an uncanny ability to plumb the philosophical depths without ever losing the clarity required to illumine those depths for the average reader.”

The Philosophy of Tolkien

Philosophy

“Peter Kreeft writes so well! He is a master of profundity and succinctness, an author with an uncanny ability to plumb the philosophical depths without ever losing the clarity required to illumine those depths to the average reader. What a joy to see his acrobatic mind capering with philosophical delight in the presence of elves, hobbits, men, dwarves and angels. This book is Kreeftcraft at its best.”

The Song of Ascents

History & Biography

“Tom Hiney understands that each of our lives is a story. In this cogent and courageously written book, we see how the lives of others interweaves with our own life, inviting us to see our own life story in the light of Christ and to see history as His Story. This is storytelling and truth-seeking at its best.”

The Story of the Family

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“G. K. Chesterton was not only a great defender of the faith but a great defender of the family also. This excellent collection of the best of Chesterton's writing on the family is more needed today than it was in Chesterton's own day.”

The Vanishing Woman

Fiction

“The cast of characters in the mystery stories of Fiorella De Maria are almost invariably civilized people, even if some of them are guilty of very uncivilized crimes. This is one of the reasons that her books are such a delight.”

There and Back Again

History & Biography

“Father Longenecker is such a fine writer that his story has the riveting pacing of a good novel. It is full of the good humor that is the fruit of true humility and shines forth in the spirit of irrepressible joy with which he takes the road to Rome. It is this indomitable joy, the mark of the true disciple, that makes the reading of this book such a joyride.”