Bringing in the Sheaves: Wheat and Chaff from My Years as a Priest - Hardcover

Others mapping the daily clerical grind might hold forth on divine transcendence and immanence, on our fallen natures and need of grace. Not so Richard Coles ... Bringing in the Sheaves is an invitation to see the world as he does: the ultimate in the intimate - after all, what other way is there? (Christopher Harding SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

Bringing in the Sheaves is another lively and perceptive collection of anecdotes and insights derived from his recent experience of juggling daily life as a parish priest with his curious hinterland of burgeoning celebrity. Coles is a witty and likable raconteur (Phil Harrison GUARDIAN)

Coles draws on his 11 years in the clergy, with all the humour, quirky characters and incidents that life - and death - serve up (MAIL ON SUNDAY EVENT MAGAZINE)

There is much to teach us and inspire us as well as to entertain and make us laugh (Paul Richardson THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND NEWSPAPER)

His life story is intriguing - pop star to Anglican vicar - but it is his insights into the church's present situation, Christian belief and above all human encounters that are honest, sometimes funny and occasionally revelatory (Susan Hill THE SPECTATOR Books of the Year)

An entertaining mix of the sacred and the secular, the gossipy and ritualistic grandeur that attempts to give the reader a feel of the texture of the life of a vicar (Teddy Jamieson THE HERALD MAGAZINE)

It's a vision of contemporary Anglicanism as seen through a particular, perhaps slightly glitterballed perspective. I enjoyed it even though I'm an atheist (THE HERALD MAGAZINE)

Richly associative and absorbing (Nick Curtis RADIO TIMES)

A series of often hilarious vignettes (SAGA)

It is a delightful compilation of thoughts, memories and incidents, all told with his signature humanity and humour (CHOICE)