I've just finished reading Phil Rickman's novel The cure of souls, and think it is one of his best.

I recently commented on Phil Rickman's novels more generally on my other blog Notes from underground and in MySpace and especially on the light they throw on the relationship between religion and psychotherapy, but this time I want to comment more ( Read more... )

I've just finished reading a couple of novels I picked up in the cheap books tray in a supermarket. They were "Midwinter of the Spirit" and "A crown of lights" by Phil Rickman. I bought them because they seemed suitable light reading to fill in odd moments -- on Tuesdays I travel to Johannesburg to give a one hour lecture on church history, but I ( Read more... )