Favourite Wisdom

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lOAN BAKEWELL JOHN BAYLEY TONY BENN MAEVE BINCHY TONY BLAIR LIONEL BLUE MELVYN BRAGG OWEN CHADWICK HRH PRINCE CHARLES RICHARD CHART RES JILLY COOPER THE DALAI LAMA COLIN DAVIS MARGARET DRABBLE RANULPH FIENNES LESLEY GARRETT MICHAEL HOLROYD ERIC JAMES GARY LINEKER ROGER McGOUGH LORD OWEN HRH PRINCE PHILIP CLIFF RICHARD JONATHAN SACKS ROGER SCRUTON
MURIEL SPARK DESMOND TUTU FAY WELDON ROWAN WILLIAMS
In Favourite Wisdi has assembled texts, chosen by people from all walks of life, which have offered encouragement in times of difficulty or when facing life's challenges. Texts of wise counsel, some touched with humour.
The collection is direct and inspiring and derives from personal experience.
Passages have been chosen from writers as wide-ranging as Albert Einstein, John Wesley, St Benedict, Marcel Proust and Ted Hughes.
The Foreword by the late Bishop Jim Thompson, admired for his Thought jar the Day broadcasts and much missed, is in itself a source of wisdom.
In her previous... Tovább

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lOAN BAKEWELL JOHN BAYLEY TONY BENN MAEVE BINCHY TONY BLAIR LIONEL BLUE MELVYN BRAGG OWEN CHADWICK HRH PRINCE CHARLES RICHARD CHART RES JILLY COOPER THE DALAI LAMA COLIN DAVIS MARGARET DRABBLE RANULPH FIENNES LESLEY GARRETT MICHAEL HOLROYD ERIC JAMES GARY LINEKER ROGER McGOUGH LORD OWEN HRH PRINCE PHILIP CLIFF RICHARD JONATHAN SACKS ROGER SCRUTON
MURIEL SPARK DESMOND TUTU FAY WELDON ROWAN WILLIAMS
In Favourite Wisdi has assembled texts, chosen by people from all walks of life, which have offered encouragement in times of difficulty or when facing life's challenges. Texts of wise counsel, some touched with humour.
The collection is direct and inspiring and derives from personal experience.
Passages have been chosen from writers as wide-ranging as Albert Einstein, John Wesley, St Benedict, Marcel Proust and Ted Hughes.
The Foreword by the late Bishop Jim Thompson, admired for his Thought jar the Day broadcasts and much missed, is in itself a source of wisdom.
In her previous book. Favourite Prayers, Deborah Cassidi put together a collection of prayers that has become a bestseller. Favourite Wisdom has all the ingredients for similar success. It will touch the hearts and minds of countless people.
Royalties from the sale of this book are being donated to the Threshold Prize, a charity which encourages children's imaginative writing and love of the English language.


ront cover: Federico Zuccari, Wisdom, ceiling fresco c. 1598. Courtesy of The Art Archive / Palazzo Zuccari Rome / Dagli Orti. Vissza