Andrew White’s new book – Father, Forgive – is available at just £6.99 in Books Plus Gloucester (RRP is £8.99).

For most of his ministry Canon Andrew White has been involved in reconciliation. In The Vicar of Baghdad he wrote, ‘The kind of people I spend my time engaging with are not usually very nice. On the whole, nice people do not cause wars.’ Until he left for Baghdad in 2005 Andrew was Director of the International Centre for Reconciliation in Coventry. The ICR is the centre of a network of over 250 ‘Cross of Nails’ centres around the world, particularly in the USA and Germany, which serve the cause of reconciliation. Andrew bases his chapters around the Coventry Litany of Reconciliation. Following the bombing of the mediaeval cathedral in 1940, the words ‘Father Forgive’ were inscribed behind the altar of the ruined building. The Litany concludes: ‘Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ.’

DOWNTURN by Mike Burke

If you enjoyed Daydream Believer by Mike Burke perhaps you might want to try his recently published second novel – Downturn.

Set in modern times its based on the Book of Job and explores what happens when bad things happen to good people.

Mike is a cleryman in the Church of England having previously worked in parishes in Sheffield and Gloucester.  He is married to Jacky and has two grown up children.

If you liked The Shack why not try the latest novel by its author William Paul Young.

There’s £5 off the RRP in Books Plus Gloucester at just £12.99 a copy (RRP £17.99).

Multi-millionaire Anthony Spencer is trapped in a coma and finds himself in a surreal world that reflects the skewed priorities of the life he’s lived on earth where he meets a stranger who turns out to be Jesus and a grandmother who is the Holy Spirit.

Pleading for a second chance, he is sent back to earth to redeem himself. There he must fight to put right the mess he’s created, experiencing events through others’ eyes before deciding how to use the miraculous gift he’s been given. Before his illness he had set events in motion that he now needs to undo – but will he have the courage to make the right choice?