Resisting the urge to instruct with a more polemical voice, the SCM Studyguide to Church Leadership will encourage ordinands and trainee church leaders to reassess modern pressures and priorities and to re-orient creatively around the callings, giftings, and approaches that are suitable to Christ and particular to the Church.

This Christmas, love is top of Florence Fairfax’s wish list'Like eating a box of chocolates where every one is a violet cream' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'My only complaint is I can't put Sophia Money-Coutts' books down!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Hugely enjoyable novel from a mistress of the genre' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘You want me to write a list? Like a shopping list?''Exactly. But for what you want from a man’

One first date. One not-so-little mistake. What happens now?'Completely hilarious' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Hugely funny, refreshingly honest, a total joy!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'You'll cry with laughter, but real tears too' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘No question about it, there are two little purple lines. I’m pregnant.’After eight years together, Lil Bailey thought she’d already found ‘the one’ – that is, until he dumped her for a bl...

The Plus One [n] informal a person who accompanies an invited person to a wedding or a reminder of being single, alone and absolutely plus none'Brilliant and bonkers in equal measure'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Had me laughing the whole way through' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'When Harry Met Sally meets The Devil Wears Prada' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Polly’s not looking for ‘the one’, just the plus one…Polly Spencer is fine. She’s single, turning thirty and ...

Stella is looking out for love. But will she find it where she least expects it?'The perfect touching beach read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Guaranteed to make you smile' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Delightfully warm and witty' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Stella Shakespeare isn’t having a good day, or month come to think of it. She’s been unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend,cut off from the bank of dad and at thirty-two years old, she doesn’t know what she’s doing with her life....

The one who got away is back with a BIG question'Utterly glorious' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Packed with great characters and a heroine I'd love to go for a bottle of wine with' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Sophia is the queen of rom-coms' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐You never forget the one that got away, do you?Nell Mason is extremely happy with her life – or at least, that’s what she tells herself. She’s lucky to have a high-powered job as a lawyer, even if i...

If Maggie is living her best life, why doesn’t it feel like she's in the right place?'Great fun, delicious food, beautiful setting: excellent summer reading' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Sophia's best book yet' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The perfect read for a bright summer's day' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐☀️☀️☀️From the outside, Maggie Lemon has a perfect life. But she and her husband have been trying for a baby for five years and she’s exhausted. She’s seen c...

Holly werkt in de lokale garage in het Canadese stadje Coutts als automonteur, maar wat niet iedereen weet is dat zij en haar nichtje Maggie heksen zijn... Sinds een tijdje weten ze dat hun oma hen een magische erfenis heeft nagelaten. Als ze door haar baas naar een gestrande auto op de grens van Canada en de VS wordt gestuurd, wordt ze daar geconfronteerd met een charmante, maar zeer sceptische man: Owen Saunderson, die samen met een vriend een podcast maakt om huizen waar het zogenaamd s...

For fans of Sheryl McCorry's Diamonds and Dust and Sara Henderson, this is the story of Toni Tapp Coutts's extraordinary childhood on the legendary Killarney cattle station in the Northern Territory as the eldest of ten children and daughter of cattle king Bill Tapp.Toni Tapp grew up on the massive Killarney Station, where her stepfather, Bill Tapp, was a cattle king. But there was no 'big house' here - Toni did not grow up in a large homestead. She lived in a shac...

"The best Canadian political diary that exists" – John English, author, The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.Jim Coutts, principal secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau from 1975 to 1981, was one of the most powerful men in Canada during those tumultuous years. Equally admired and attacked, respected and reviled, he was, in the words of one contemporary journalist, "a political phenomenon such as Canada has never known before: Machiavelli masque...

One first date. One not-so-little mistake. What happens now?'Completely hilarious' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Hugely funny, refreshingly honest, a total joy!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'You'll cry with laughter, but real tears too' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘No question about it, there are two little purple lines. I’m pregnant.’After eight years together, Lil Bailey thought she’d already found ‘the one’ – that is, until he dumped her for a bl...

"The work of an exceptional woman artist, writing from the inside about the things women have always done: nursing, nurturing, loving." — The GuardianWinner of the Wellcome Book Prize, and finalist for every major nonfiction award in the UK, including the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Biography Award, The Iceberg is artist and writer Marion Coutts' astonishing memoir; an "adventure of being and dying" and a compelling, poetic meditation on fa...