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NEW NOVEL: Isabella's Voyage

Pioneering Victorian woman inspires novelist’s own journey and that of her heroine ‘Takes the reader on an exotic adventure and into a love story like no other.’ Wendy Griffith, CBN News Anchor; author of You Are a Prize to be Won Passionate Isabella Buckley feels like life is passing her by. In her late thirties and yearning for adventure, she is constrained by Victorian England’s gender roles and suffocated by the quiet life she leads with her parents. But when the chance for adventure comes her way...

Isabella's Voyage

Passionate Isabella Buckley feels like life is passing her by. In her late thirties and yearning for adventure, she is constrained by Victorian England’s gender roles and suffocated by the quiet life she leads with her parents. But when tragedy strikes on the other side of the world...

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Isabella's Voyage
Jemimah Wright
Passionate Isabella Buckley feels like life is passing her by. In her late thirties and yearning for adventure, she is constrained by Victorian England’s gender roles and suffocated by the quiet life she leads with her parents. But when tragedy strikes on the other side of the world...
Isabella's Voyage
The Continued Times of Isabella M Smugge
Ruth Leigh
Now in her third year of living the rural dream, starry Instamum Issy Smugge is up against it. A single parent of four with an award-winning brand, a gin-swigging mother convalescing upstairs and a distraught relative craving a shoulder to cry on...
The Continued Times of Isabella M Smugge
My Big Father
Dr Bruce Farnham
Kenan Araz knew that coming to Christ would carry a cost. Belonging to a culturally Christian minority in Turkey, the faithful witness of persecuted believers had been part of the very foundation stones of his childhood home. But when he discovered the infinitely kind and compassionate God of the Bible – his ‘Big Father’ – nothing could stop him from sharing the wonderful news...
My Big Father
Island Treasure
Helen Parker
Chris Miller has just settled into an Edinburgh secondary school when his family unexpectantly moves to a remote Scottish island – Sunnaig. Forced to leave all he knows behind, even rumours of hidden treasure that thrill his half-sister, Tonia, can’t help. But when he and Tonia encounter two child refugees on a Sunnaig beach...
Island Treasure
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Isabella's Voyage
Jemimah Wright
Passionate Isabella Buckley feels like life is passing her by. In her late thirties and yearning for adventure, she is constrained by Victorian England’s gender roles and suffocated by the quiet life she leads with her parents. But when tragedy strikes on the other side of the world...
Isabella's Voyage
The Continued Times of Isabella M Smugge
Ruth Leigh
Now in her third year of living the rural dream, starry Instamum Issy Smugge is up against it. A single parent of four with an award-winning brand, a gin-swigging mother convalescing upstairs and a distraught relative craving a shoulder to cry on...
The Continued Times of Isabella M Smugge
Seraph of the Sallow Grove
Ben Mears
When the fearsome Lord Draker approaches Banyard and Mingle for help, they are immediately on their guard. Two high-profile silkers have been murdered with chilling precision, their bodies unearthed in a snowbound, sallow grove – but why would the chief of police come to them?
Seraph of the Sallow Grove
The Pilgrim
Joy Margetts
Driven by ambition and family expectation, young Henry de Brampton is determined to make his mark. Destined for a prestigious career in the Church, he readily embraces the chance to experience the world before taking his vows. But fuelled by selfish desire, he recklessly betrays those he loves...
The Pilgrim
Talking to Calippa Cumberland
Chick Yuill
It’s half past four on Christmas Eve, 1976. Lori Bloom, aged three and three-quarters, is leaving a busy department store with her mother when the tannoy announces that a child in reception is lost and crying for her parents...
Talking to Calippa Cumberland
The Trials of Isabella M Smugge
Ruth Leigh
Life in the country isn’t going as Issy Smugge planned it. However, the woman Gorgeous Home magazine once called ‘Britain’s Most Relatable Mum Designer’ is nothing if not resilient...
The Trials of Isabella M Smugge
The Shadow of Grayrton Mire
Ben Mears
Shadowy deaths have long made Grayrton Mire a place of gruesome legend. But when a vulnerable boy is charged with the latest killing, Banyard and Mingle brave the treacherous marshes to defend him...
The Shadow of Grayrton Mire
The Healing
Joy Margetts
Driven to despair by heart-breaking betrayal, nobleman Philip de Braose has lost faith in God and man. Working as a soldier for hire, he recklessly seeks death and is brutally injured, only for rescue to come in the unlikely form of a Cistercian monk...
The Healing
Christian Life

Standing in the Storm
Matt McChlery
‘In the darkest part of my life, in the middle of the mess and suffering, Jesus was there, holding my hand and giving me the strength I needed to simply stand in the storm’ In 2016, Matt McChlery and his wife experienced the loss of an unborn child and the discovery that he had life-threatening cancer – Stage Four non-Hodgkin lymphoma...
Standing in the Storm
Dying to Get There
Michael Williams
Heaven. Do you look forward to it? Or do you secretly worry that somehow life there might not be quite as good as life here? It was not this way for the early Church, and it need not be for us. If we understand the meaning of Jesus’ physical resurrection...
Dying to Get There
The Road to the Father's House
Alistair Forman
We all know the story of the prodigal son – but was the welcome-home party the end of the journey? This beautiful and deeply personal book imaginatively considers the journey the prodigal son still had to walk once he had got home and insightfully applies it to our own lives...
The Road to the Father's House
Write Well
Association of Christian Writers
Everything you could ever want to know about the craft, trade and experience of Christian writing can be found in this book! A celebratory Jubilee Compendium marking fifty years of the Association of Christian Writers (ACW), Write Well commemorates and continues its incredible work...
Write Well
Wholehearted
Duncan Clark
How are you living your life? Are you half-hearted or WHOLEHEARTED? In this dynamic and accessible book, Duncan Clark casts an inspirational vision of what life is like when we fully commit to God and all He has for the one life we have been given...
Wholehearted
Walking Through Winter
Katherine Gantlett
When faced with winter seasons of loss, it can be easy to doubt God and ourselves. So how can we walk through these times with authenticity and faith? After losing five children to miscarriage and a daughter, Libby...
Walking Through Winter
Not Knowing but Still Going
Jocelyn-Anne Harvey
Uncertainty, change and the unexpected – we all struggle with unknowns. So what can we learn from Noah’s Ark and the women who entered it? In this inspiring, honest and compelling book...
Not Knowing but Still Going
Jennifer
Karen Palmer
When Karen and Gordon are asked how many children they have, they tell people two – it’s just easier that way. But the truth is that there will always be three...
Jennifer
News

NEW NOVEL: Isabella's Voyage
Pioneering Victorian woman inspires novelist’s own journey and that of her heroine

‘Takes the reader on an exotic adventure and into a love story like no other.’
Wendy Griffith, CBN News Anchor; author of You Are a Prize to be Won

Passionate Isabella Buckley feels like life is passing her by. In her late thirties and yearning for adventure, she is constrained by Victorian England’s gender roles and suffocated by the quiet life she leads with her parents. But when the chance for adventure comes her way...

17 Nov 2022
Sample Chapters: Isabella's Voyage
Chapter One
North Norfolk coast, England, September 1880

The thing about a long brisk walk, thought Isabella as she got dressed, is that it can be a marvellous antidote to hopelessness. It is action, and that is something.

She set out as soon as dawn’s orange light brightened the sky and before anyone else was awake...

11 Nov 2022
How prayer unlocked my writer’s block - Ruth Leigh with Premier Christian Radio
Ruth Leigh shares insights into her writing journey, how she found inspiration for her protagonist Isabella's journey, and how she overcame unexpected writer's block...

10 Nov 2022
Why write fiction instead of biography? - Joy Margetts with TWR
Novelist, Joy Margetts, shares about the powerful themes her stories address, and tells why she chose to use fiction rather than biography to share her journey of faith...

26 Oct 2022
Reviews

'Love this story and the way Jemimah wove things together. I read it in four days because I couldn't put it down and cried in more than one part of the story. Waiting for the next one!'

Isabella's Voyage by Jemimah Wright
1 Dec 2022
As a British pastor in Albania, Paul Alkazraji has heard many migration stories. In the light of a rise in the numbers of Albanians crossing the Channel this year, he offers this reflection

The Migrant by Paul Alkazraji
1 Dec 2022
'His invitation to walk through his story, embedded in the panoramic view of the Bible stories, is irresistible. Success is reframed in the light of Chris's discovery of God's ways as he walks us through his own experience of the cost of obedience'

Not Forgotten by Chris Lane
28 Nov 2022
'Really cracking read. I was gripped from beginning to end, as Jemimah vividly draws her readers into the late C19 with imaginative flair and brilliant characterisation. You can really feel the adventures, the encounters and the conversations'

Isabella's Voyage by Jemimah Wright
28 Nov 2022
'I always say, "life is copy". Look into your own life, remember funny stories, think about people you've met and start to sketch out ideas'

The Continued Times of Isabella M Smugge by Ruth Leigh
28 Nov 2022

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