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About Quaker Book Sales

The Quaker Books Manager selects the books and journals for sale, handles book and subscription sales and will also provide Events or Meetings with ‘sale or return’ book boxes with selections appropriate to their gathering, e.g. books for newcomers.

If you wish to buy a Quaker publication not in this catalogue, email the details.

This website does not support on-line sales.

When ordering a book, please pay by direct bank transfer to the Quaker Books bank account 02-0792-0448080-00 (give your name to identify the payment).

POSTAGE IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE OF BOOKS EXCEPT FOR SALE BOOKS OR DELIVERY TO RURAL DELIVERY ADDRESSES. Rural Delivery is $4.80 extra per parcel. Sale books incur a postage charge of $9 for one to three books, and $9 for each one to three books thereafter. All other books have postage and handling included in the price. Books available and prices may change without notice given supply chain issues.

On This Page

On this page you will find books on Quaker basics, exciting new books and the full Quaker Books Catalogue.


Quakers 101

Quakers Do What! Why?
Rhiannon Grant $30.00

Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2020, 73pp

Covers all the bases, wriiting in a friendly and accessible style. Great for enquirers or new-comers.

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OUR BIGGEST SELLER!! AGING AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
Lewis Richmond $45.00

Avery (Penguin) US, 2013, 243pp

2022 Swarthmore Lecture. Contains the lecture, plus workshops and the responses

Contemplative guide to growing older Has science, doctors and psychologists facts plus guided reflections

Quaker Shaped Christianity
Mark Russ $30.00

Christian Alternative Quaker Quicks, Briain, 2022

Telling the Jesus story through Quaker eyes, this is rich, readable theology that is both contemporary and rooted in tradition.

Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay
A Graphic Novel
David Lester with Marcus Rediker & Paul Buhle $37.00

Beacon Press, US, 2021,118pp Illus

Graphic novel. Lester's raw visual approach perfectly delivers. Using shocking guerrilla theater tactics Lay is a compelling figure against slavery

Tending sacred Ground: Respectful parenting
Pamela Haines $26.00

Christian Alternative, Britain and US, 2022, 81pp

Quaker Quicks series. From a Quaker perspective shows how to cultivate respect, resilence, humility, connection, discernment, and joy, with wider inclusion.


 
Radical Transformation
Long Overdue for the Religious Society of Friends
Vanessa Julye $25.00

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 476, US, 2022, 37pp

The systems of White supremacy, racism, colonisation and capitalism prevent people of colour joining and remaining in Friends. This can change

PLAIN TALK ABOUT DYING

THE SPIRITUAL EFFECTS OF TAKING MY FATHER OFF LIFE SUPPORT

Shulamith Clearbridge  $25.00

Pendle Hill Pamphlet479, US, 2023, 25pp 

Understanding spiritual repercussions of such decisions may help us prepare or better support each other. 

 
FORGIVENESS FREED TO LOVE 
Christine Betz Hall $25.00

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 480, US, 2023,30pp

Offers paradigm to set people free of hurt & bitterness Experience forgiveness as release into the Spirit liberates & prepares us to heal & transform

Hillbilly Quaker
Jennifer Elam $22.00

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 475, US, 2022, 34pp

Jennifer a rural Appalachian who discovered she was a hillbilly when she left. Calls on Friends to better live testimony of equality

Listening As Quaker Practice
James McCarthy $15.00

The Kindlers, Britain, 2021, 59pp

Listening is integral to Quakerism, in Meeting, with each other, making decisions. We are not always good at it and need to improve

Be Patterns
reflections on words of George Fox
John Andrew Gallery $22.00

Pendle Hilll Pamphlet 473, US, 2022, 27pp

Ideas on contemplation from George Fox, & ideas from Rex Ambler and Edgar Cayce, guidance on being a "spiritual pattern"

Quaker Meeting and Me /
Taku Noho Ki Te Hui Tūhauwiri
Aotearoa New Zealand Yearly Meeting Free

Aotearoa New Zealand Yearly Meeting
2022, Illustrated

  • A guide for children to Quaker Meeting for Worship
  • Māori and English
  • simple, lovely colour illustrations
  • all ages
  • pocket size Tête-bêche book in English and Māori.
In Search Of Stillness
Using a simple meditation to find inner peace
Joanna Godfrey Wood $23.00

Christian-Alternative/Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2021, 104pp

Calls on early Quaker’s advice to go within & wait, adapting it to a modern method for finding stillness & peace.

Living Fellowship Needs Fresh Forms
Daphne Clement $22.00

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 471, US, 2021, 30pp

At tension between authority of traditon & continuing revelation. Looks at recent experiment with daily Zoom worship

That Clear And Certain Sound
Finding Solid Ground in Perilous Times
Pamela Haines $24.00

Christian Alternative/Quaker Quicks, US, 2021, 80pp

On being alive in these wonderful & perilous times encourages us to stay alert to truth even in unlikely places

Kinder Ground
Creating space for truth
Thomas Penny $25.00

Quaker Books, London, 2021, 99pp 2021 Swarthmore Lecture.

Recommit to truth & shed prejudice & create kinder ground to help nurture honest discourse

The Atheist's Guide To Quaker Process
Selden W Smith $25.00

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Pendle Hill Pamphlet 472, US, 2021, 32pp

Can nontheist participate in religiously rooted "sense of Meeting" Quaker process? Here is a practical guide. A model for all?

The Search For Truth
Verica Ruper $10.00
+ $5
postage and packing

The Search for Truth—a Quaker Lecture – Anglican Life

The 2022 Aotearoa Quaker Lecture

Aotearoa New Zealand Quakers, 2022, 36pp

Information, disinformation, and the algorithms of social media

Creating Hope
Working For Justice In Catastrophic Times
Yarrow Goodley $19.00

Creating hope: Working for justice in catastrophic times: Working for justice in catastrophic times by Yarrow Goodley, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®

The 2022 Backhouse Lecture

Australia Yearly Meeting, 2022, 32pp

As well as the rapidly warming planet we need to address the injustice of the rich polluting and the poor sufferi

The Quaker Books Catalogue

OPEN FOR TRANSFORMATION Being Quaker
Ben Pink Dandelion
Quaker Books, Britain, 2014, 113pp
2014 Swarthmore Lecture. To be vibrant and useful we need to be clear about what we are and what we are not.
$25.00
OPENINGS TO THE INFINITE OCEAN
Tom Shakespeare
Quaker Books, Britain, 2020, 79 pp
2020 Swarthmore Lecture. In pandemic, climate emergency and right wing populism is that enough? What do we do?
$23.00
PEACEFUL PIGGY YOGA
Kerry Lee MacLean
Albert Whiteman, US, 2008, Illus CLOTH
from the Peaceful Piggy Meditation series- children of ages can use yoga for peace in relationships
$5.00
PEACEFUL WORLD, A
Marian Hobbs
Aotearoa New Zealand Yearly Meeting, 2016,36pp
2016 NZ Quaker Lecture. How can we make it so?
$13.00
PENDLE HILL: A Place to Be and Become
Doug Gwyn
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 464, US, 2020, 32pp
Historian of Pendle Hill tells the history. Focus on study and contemplation, closure of resident program and the future?
$18.00
PERCEIVING THE TEMPERATURE OF THE WATER
Helen Minnis
Britain Yearly Meeting, Britain, 2022, 143pp
2022 Swarthmore Lecture. Black woman Quaker asks how can we address white priviledge & racism. Includes the Lecture, workshops & responses
$28.00
PERSONALITY AND PLACE: The Life and Times of Pendle Hill
Douglas Gwyn
Plain Press, US, 2014, 499pp
The story of a Quaker Centre for study and contemplation
$5.00
PLAIN LIVING: A Quaker Path To Simplicity
Catherine Whitmire
Sorin Books, US, 2001, 192pp
More than simplicity, an unprogrammed tradition daily reader in style of Quaker F & Practice
$30.00
Plain Talk about Dying: The Spirtual Effects of Taking My Father off Life Support
Shulamith Clearbridge
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 479, US, 2023, 25pp
Understanding spiritual repercussions of such decisions may help us to prepare or better support each other
$25.00
PRACTICAL MYSTICISM, A
Elizabeth Meyer
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 453, US, 2018, 36pp
How Quaker process opens us to the prompting of the Divine. 12 Friendly practices deepen our worship in business
$18.00
PRACTICAL MYSTICS
Jennifer Kavanagh
Quaker Quicks, Christian Alternative, UK, 2018, 70pp
Are Quakers mystics? What does that mean? How does that translate into how we are and what we do in the world?
$26.00
PROPHET AGAINST SLAVERY:Benjamin Lay: A Graphic Novel
David Lester with Marcus Rediker & Paul Buhle
Beacon Press, US, 2021,118pp Illus
Graphic novel.Lester's raw visual approach perfectly delivers. Using shocking guerrilla theater tactics Lay is a compelling figure against slavery
$37.00
PROTECTING FRIENDS HOUSE
Wellington Monthly Meeting
Wellington Monthly Meeting, NZ, 54pp Illus
The story of the seismic strengthening of the Wellington Meeting House with illustrations
$25.00
PUSHING AT THE FRONTIERS OF CHANGE
David Blamires
Quaker Books, London, 2012, 100pp
A memoir of Quaker involvement with homosexuality
$20.00
QUAKER FAITH & PRACTICE IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand Yearly Meeting
NZYM, New Zealand, 2003, 177pp
Quaker Faith and Practice book of New Zealand readings
$26.00
QUAKER FAITH AND PRACTICE paperback
Britain Yearly Meeting
Britain Yearly Meeting, 2013 (5th Edition)
The book of Christian discipline of the YM of the Relig. Socy. of Friends in Britain.
$34.00
QUAKER FAITH AND PRACTICE: hardback
Britain Yearly Meeting
Britain Yearly Meeting (5th edition) 2013
The book of Christian discipline of the YM of the Relig. Socy. of Friends in Britain.
$54.00
QUAKER MEETING AND ME/TAKU NOHO KI TE HUI TUHAUWIRI
Aotearoa New Zealand Yearly Meeting
2022, Illus
A guide for children to Quaker Meeting for Worship/Maori and English/simple, lovely colour illustrations/all ages/pocket size
$Free
QUAKER SHAPED CHRISTIANITY How Jesus story and the Quaker way fit together
Mark Russ
Christian Alternative, US and Britain, 2022, 80pp
On how to approach the Bible, the challenges of Universalism, the story of Jesus in a readable theology fitting Christianity & Quakerism together
$30.00
QUAKER: Roots and Branches
John Lampen
Christian Alternative, Britain, 2018, 64pp
First of a planned series, links the contemporary concerns of Friends with rich heritage of the Quaker past
$25.00
QUAKERISM: the basics
Margery Post Abbott and Carl Abbott
Routledge Taylor and Francis, US, 2021, 195pp
From well known Quaker scholar. Accessible & engaging introduction to history & diverse Quaker approaches and ideas
$32.50
QUAKERS and the FIRST WORLD WAR
Veronica O'Mara (Ed)
Radius Publishing, Britain, 2018, 110pp Illus
Traumatic time for Quakers in Leeds. How to respond to war was difficult and Inward Light led to different actions
$10.00
RACE, SYSTEMIC VIOLENCE AND RETROSPECTIVE JUSTICE
Harold J Weaver Jr
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 465, US, 2020, 34pp
This unjust world is maintained by mis and dis information. The Black Quaker Project lays out queries to address this
$18.00
RADICAL HOSPITALITY
Lloyd Lee Wilson
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 427, US, 2014, 35pp
Jesus centred invitation through inclusiveness and letting go of personal cravings
$14.00
RADICAL TRANSFORMATION Long Overdue for the Religious Society of Friends
Vanessa Julye
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 476, US, 2022, Illus 37pp
The systems of White supremacy, racism, colonisation & capitalism prevent people of colour joining and remaining in Friends. This can change
$25.00
READING THE BIBLE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME
Marcus J Borg
Harper, US, 2001, 321pp
Taking the Bible seriously but not literally from "Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time" author
$35.00
REFLECTIONS FROM A SOLITARY MEETING FOR WORSHIP
John Andrew Gallery
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 469, US, 2021, 30pp
In COVID self isolaton author worshipped alone. When messages for his usual vocal ministry came he wrote them down
$22.00
RISE UP SINGING
A. Patterson & P. Blood
Sing Out Publication, US, 2004
1200 spiral-bound songs, chords & words. Brilliant book!
$55.00
ROAD THAT TEACHES, THE
Valerie Brown
FGC, US, 2012, 152pp
Lessons in transformation through travel.Mindfulness through travel, including the author's visit to New Zealand
$5.00
ROOTED IN CHRISTIANITY OPEN TO NEW LIGHT
Timothy Ashworth and Alex Wildwood
Woodbrooke, Britain, 2009, 115pp
Quaker spiritual diversity
$31.00
SAM PEEL A MAN WHO DID DIFFERENT- sale price to clear
Susan Wild
Wells Local History Group, Britain, 2013, 149pp
Set against backdrop of early 1900's, Sam, motivated by strong Quaker faith, transformed lives and injustice
$5.00
SEARCH FOR TRUTH, THE
Verica Rupar
Aotearoa New Zealand Yearly Meeting (Quakers) 2022, 36pp
Aotearoa New Zealand Quaker Lecture 2022. Information, disinformation and the algorithms of social media
$15.00