Favourite Heroes and Holy People - Softcover

"This is one of those anthologies which you pick up just for a moment and discover that you're totally hooked. You start reading one entry and then another and another." News Letter (Northern Ireland) "Inspiring and informative ... [The extracts] are equally interesting, and with their own tale to tell ... The breadth of choice by contributors for their heroes is amazing in itself." - Tyrone Constitution "One of those books to dip into at leisure ... A great gift for loved ones or even for yourself, this book is full of unexpected delights." - Catholic Herald Reviewed in The Sign, April 2009 Title mention in Bath Chronicle. 'Life-changing words and stories ... it is not merely the good and the great telling us what has inspired them [...] but here, too, are contributions from 'ordinary' people.' The Sign, April 2009 Title mention in Western Daily Press. "Beautifully presented this is a book to dip into with a wealth of wisdom in its pages" - Methodist Recorder "A great gift for loved ones or even for yourself, this book is full of unexpected delights." Catholic Herald, January 2009 "Lady Cassidi...is giving proceeds from the book to the Thresold Prize, which encourages children to write creatively." Church Times, 24 October 2008--Sanford Lakoff "Church Times "

In her previous two books for Continuum, Lady Cassidi showed that she was well tuned to a large market. In this inspiring new book, the author has approached an extraordinary range of people - men, women and children - and asked them to select just one person who is either a hero or heroine of theirs or an inspiring holy person. Each contribution consists of a quotation from the hero or holy person, a personal passage about what the person means to the author of the contribution and a potted biography. The book is full of unexpected treasures which will come as a source of inspiration and encouragement to people today, when we are sorely in need of both. Rowan Williams chooses St Augustine, General Sir Mike Jackson The Duke of Wellington. Other contributors include The Chief Rabbi, Sir Roy Calne, Prince Charles and Vanessa Redgrave.