'Unsure what to buy the Trollope devotee in your life for Christmas? Look no further than Catherine Fox's Acts and Omissions and Unseen Things Above for a refresher course not only in cathedral politics, but also a set of profound, although lightly drawn, insights into the contemporary Anglican communion.' Janet Beer, The Times Higher Education

How will it all end? Come, dear reader, and join with the good and the bad of the Diocese of Lindchester as they navigate their way through the storms of 2016. What does the year hold in this best of times, this worst of times; this season of bake-offs and food banks, of muscular theological hope and hand-wringing theological despair? We will peep through many a stained-glass window in pursuit of answers.

Will the new bishop - dubbed Steve-angelical by his detractors - impose the evils of management on the timeless beauty of Anglicanism? Will kind Dean Marion collude with him? Will Archdeacon Matt be the next bishop of Barcup - and what will Jane think of that? And will Freddie - more lovely than a summer's day, though far less temperate - finally find love and happiness?

Times are dark in this, the final volume of the Lindchester Chronicles, but we may yet glimpse a touch of radiance around the grubby edges of our characters. So let us soar as best we can on Anglican wings, towards those unseen Realms of Glory.

'Catherine Fox's glorious Lindchester series is the twenty-first-century answer to Trollope's Barchester - but Trollope was never so funny, so fundamentally kind, or so mischievously attentive to grace.'
Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill

Catherine's weekly blog of a chapter at a time has attracted 3 times as many views for Realms of Glory as for previous novels in the series Frequently very funny, with many gloriously entertaining observations on the minutiae of church life Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury on A&O: 'I read it while I should have been preparing a sermon.' People are fascinated to know what goes on in clergy communities behind closed doors The first in the Lindchester trilogy, Acts and Omissions, was chosen as a Guardian Best Book of 2014

Title: Realms of Glory
Series: Lindchester Chronicles 3
Author: Catherine Fox
ISBN: 9781910674215
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
Date: 20th July 2017