Prayer at Night’s Approaching
£7 paperback ISBN 1 870652 27 4
A revised edition of Prayer at Night, rearranged for ease of use. In pocket-size paperback. Foreword by Sister Jane of the Community of the Love of God.

Prayer at Night’s Approaching is now also available for download as a PDF document from Cairns Publications Online.

Prayer at Day’s Dawning
£10 hardback ISBN 1 870652 28 2
A new book of prayers parallel in format to Prayer at Night’s Approaching, focusing on time of day and season of year, on body and earth, creation, pilgrimage, and everyday life, with tough questions for meditation.

Waymarks: Cairns for a Journey.
£7 paperback ISBN 1 870652 31 2
A revised and expanded book of ‘cairns’, one for each day of the year for reflection and meditation.

Prayer at Night: A book for the Darkness
Pocket size: £3 ISBN 1 870652 01 0
The original ‘Cairns Publication’ dating back to stapled photocopies in the early eighties (of the last century!) has sold 20,000 copies. This fifth edition is still available, as is the redesigned sixth edition, Prayer at Night’s Approaching.

Prayer in the Day: A book of mysteries
Standard size: £6 ISBN 1 870652 14 2,
Pocket size: £2 ISBN 1 870652 05 3
Biblical quotations and meditations based on the ‘mysteries’ of the Rosary, preceded by paraphrases of Psalm 119. Illustrations (in standard-size version only) by Peter Pelz. Foreword by Donald Reeves.

Prayer in the Morning: A Book for Day’s Beginning
Standard size: £5 ISBN 1 870652 06 1
A short order of prayer for the morning, including psalms, readings from the Gospels, canticles, hymns, and prayers.

Dazzling Darkness
Pocket size: £3 ISBN 0 85303 461 4
Meditations, ‘cairns for a journey’ originally published as a second part of Prayer at Night, now revised and expanded. Foreword by Mary Robins.

Exploring A gift book by Jim Cotter
£7 hardback, gift book. 64pp ISBN 1 870652 43 6
Suitable for Confirmation and similar occasions, in the same format and with the same high quality as Expectant: Verses for Advent, which was published in the autumn of 2002 (see below). Ten Invitations, unfolding the Ten Commandments, The Five Commandments of Jesus, Six Mysteries of the character of God, Three Covenants, Three Promises, Four Beatitudes, Eight Beatitudes, Five Ways of Love, Seven Directions of Prayer, From Seven Sins to Seven Virtues, Nine Ways of being a Fool for Christ, Seven Words through awful times.

Expectant: Verses for Advent
£5 hardback, gift book. ISBN 1 870652 38 X
A verse for each day of December until Christmas Eve, modelled on the ancient hymn ‘O come, O come, Emmanuel’. Can be sung to the familiar tune. A verse each day used as an introit in Chester Cathedral in Advent 2002.

Quiverful
£11 paperback ISBN 1 903019 18 4
‘Thoughts for the Day’ on issues of sexuality, particularly same-sex relationships. ‘Arrows’ for the continuing debate in the churches, with arguments, prayers, and humour.

Brainsquall: Soundings from a Deep Depression
£12 hardback ISBN 0 85385 422 2
The story of a breakdown and recovery. Foreword by John Foskett.

Brainsquall is now also available for download as a PDF document from Cairns Publications Online.

Healing – more or less
£4 paperback ISBN 1 870652 10 X
Reflections and prayers at the end of an age. Forewords by Alan Harrison and Norry McCurry.

Love Re-membered
£5 paperback ISBN 0 85305 347 2
Resources for a House Eucharist. Foreword by David Lunn.

Love Rekindled
£5 paperback  ISBN 0 85305 345 0
Practising hospitality. Foreword by Lionel Blue.

Pleasure, Pain, and Passion
£6 paperback ISBN 1 870652 16 9
Perspectives on sexuality and spirituality. Foreword by Richard Holloway.

Yes ... Minister?
£6 paperback ISBN 1 870652 15 0
Patterns of Christian service.

By Heart for the Millennium
£1 pocket size (no ISBN) , £4 set of five, £5 audio tape
Ancient prayers refreshed.

Dark Prayer: Letters to travellers when words fail by David Wood
£8 paperback. c.160pp ISBN 1 870652 42 8
Letters to the members of the Community of the Three Hours who commit themselves to the hidden contribution of silent prayer for the peace of the world for some or all of the hours between twelve and three each Friday. Resonates with the dart of longing love into the cloud of unknowing, the dark night of the soul, the descent into hell, and made contemporary. With contributions from Robert Gallagher, Anna Briggs, Doug Constable and Stephen Brown. Foreword by David Scott, Adviser for Spirituality in the Diocese of Winchester.

A Last Embrace: Essays in honour of Nadir Dinshaw, edited by Andrew Deuchar
£15 hardback. ISBN 1 870625 41 X
With contributions by John Armson, John Austin, Trevor Beeson, Peter Carey, Jim Cotter, Lillian Craig Harris, Andrew Deuchar, Sister Frances Dominica, John Eldrid, Laurie Green, Sister Eva Heymann, Richard Holloway, Eric James, Bill Kirkpatrick, John Pridmore, Donald Reeves, David Steel, Mary Tanner, Michael Taylor, Jim Thompson, Pauline Webb, Sister Margaret Walsh, with a foreword and memorial address by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury. See also below Living by Grace.

Darkness Yielding, by Rowan Williams, W H Vanstone, Sylvia Sands, Martin Percy and Jim Cotter.
£15 paperback ISBN 1 870652 36 3
Journalistic, meditative, and liturgical contributions to our understanding and celebration of the key seasons of the Christian year.

The Logic of Whistling, by Richard Skinner
£8 paperback. ISBN 1 870652 37 1
These new poems, well crafted and accessible, deepen the vision of life apparent in his earlier collections, whilst retaining typical touches of humour and wit. Richard is also the author of Echoes of Eckhart.

Emerging: A Pilsdon Diary, by Nigel Capon
£9 paperback. ISBN 1 870652 39 8
One man’s story of struggling with depression and the help he received whilst a guest of the Pilsdon Community in Dorset.

How God Looks if you Don’t Start in Church, by Michael Ranken.
£8 paperback ISBN 1 870652 2 0
A food technologist writes about God with his secular colleagues in mind.

A Tender Bridge, by Peter Pelz and Donald Reeves.
£12 paperback ISBN 1 870652 34 7
This book, part journal, part theological reflection, charts the progress of the Soul of Europe, an organisation founded with the aim of linking together churches and communities across Europe ‘to promote justice, a tolerant spirit and solidarity with the voiceless’. Peter and Donald provide an account of working towards the rebuilding of shattered communities, particularly in Bosnia and Serbia – not just metaphorically but actually reconstructing mosques, churches and community centres destroyed in battle. With thoughts on the themes of forgiveness and reconciliation.

Living by Grace: An Anthology for a Year's Round, complied by Pauline Webb and Nadir Dinshaw.
£15 hardback  ISBN 1 870652 33 9
A gift book for birthdays, confirmations, bereavements, to lift the spirit and console the heart, Living by Grace is an anthology on the theme of grace and its connections with such themes as forgiving, suffering, choosing, waiting and dying. In his foreword, Richard Holloway says that Living by Grace is more than a way of Pauline and Nadir sharing their delight in the examples of human wisdom and beauty that they have collected over the years: ‘it is an act of ministry, a work of service.’ The authors they quote range over centuries and faiths; it is as if the quotations are themselves gracious invitations to delve into the work of so many encouragers of humanity.

The Wanderer: Epigrams of a European Mystic, by Angelus Silesius, translated by Werner Pelz.
£15 hardback ISBN 1870652 35 5
This is the first complete translation into English – in rhyming couplets – of a work of mystical prayer by the seventeenth-century Silesian, Johann Scheffler, known more widely as Angelus Silesius. Hans Ludwig Held, the modem editor of Scheffler’s collected works in German, has written of The Wanderer, ‘In its astonishing condensation, principally of the German mystical tradition from Meister Eckhart to Jakob Boehme, and in its admirable inwardness, it reminds us of the profoundest statements of the Gospels, of the boldest conceptions of the Upanishads, of the mystery of the Buddhist Nirvana.’ Werner Pelz, the translator, has in his retirement sought to salvage from oblivion this great poetical work.

Hearing the Stranger, by Michael Hare Duke, formerly Bishop of St Andrews.
£6 paperback ISBN 1 870652 22 3
Reflections, poems, and hymns.

Singing for our Lives, by Michael Seán Paterson. Foreword by Jim Cotter.
£6 paperback ISBN 0 85305 420 7
On being positively gay and Christian.

Stations, by Simon Bailey. Foreword by Brother Kenneth CGA.
£2 pocket size ISBN 1 870652 13 4
Places for pilgrims to pray.

Wise Cracks: Pithy proverbs, by Shyam Singha, a distinguished doctor who practised complementary medicine in London and Suffolk.
£3 pocket size ISBN 1 903019 19 2
A quizzical and humorous angle on human foibles, some echoing old proverbs, some entirely new.

Echoes of Eckhart, by Richard Skinner.
£4 pocket size ISBN 0 85305 442 8
Seventy short, sharp, witty poems based on the teachings of the 13th-century mystic, Meister Eckhart.

Alan Ecclestone: Priest as Revolutionary, by Tim Gorringe
£12 hardback ISBN 1 870652 21 5
£10 paperback ISBN 1870652  25 8
A biography by Tim Gorringe of one of the 20th century’s greatest priests of the Church of England, and writer on prayer, literature, and the Holocaust.

Through the Year with Alan Ecclestone, compiled by Jim Cotter
£11 paperback ISBN 1 85305 421 5
Short, digestible daily readings from Alan Ecclestone’s own writings.

Firing the Clay
£11 paperback ISBN 1 83505 460 6
A selection of occasional articles and addresses.

Cries of Advent
£4 calendar, £3 cards
A set of 24 meditation cards, available as a flip-top desk calendar or as loose cards, for use at any time of year, but particularly suitable for Advent.

On Love; Prayers with a Rhythm; Promises; God’s Generosity
£2 per set A6 card
Six meditation cards.

Prayers Renewed; Prayers in the City
£3 per set A5 card
Six meditation cards.

The Beatitudes
£4 per set A5 card
A set of eight meditations on the beatitudes.

Towards Ordained Ministry
£1 A4 card
A prayer for those called to ordination.

Trees*, Fern, Stream and Waterfall.
£3 per poster, £10 per set, £1 single card with envelope
Beautiful black-and-white photographs of four natural scenes, with a phrase for contemplation.

*Trees now available as poster only