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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 $5.50  extra per parcel due to increased costs. 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.

FOR EMAIL CONTACT please use sales@books.quakers.nz 

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.

 OUR NEW AND EXTENDED VERSION OF READINGS!!

ON THESE ISLANDS I runga i nga motu nei

QUAKER FAITH & PRACTICE IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
 

The newly updated and extended QUAKER FAITH AND PRACTICE from Quakers

in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024, 256pp Illustrated $25  

 

New Books

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Avery (Penguin) US, 2013, 243pp

 

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

 

AND CONTINUING ON WITH RELIGION AND SCIENCE TOGETHER

AND A VERY POPULAR BOOK

"HOW GOD CHANGES YOUR BRAIN"

Andrew Newbery and Mark Robert Waldman $40.00

Ballintine Books, US, 2010, 348pp

A magnificent, comprehensive scientific and spiritual explanation of how spiritual beliefs and experience enhance changes in our brains and yield better health and well being 

THE WORLD IN A SENTENCE 
Sue Williams  $25.00

Pendle Hill Pampphlet 486, US, 2024, 29 pp 

" Every once in a while someone says something that stops me in my tracks"  Author gives examples of this in her thirty years peace making around the world

 

FORGING BELOVED COMMUNITY WITH FRIENDS

Bridget Moix  $26.00

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 488, US, 2024, 24pp

In a world wrought by lies, injustice and violence how do we seek "That of God in Everyone" when we are so deeply divided from one another by fear and pain?

A QUEER GIFT 

StePPING BEYOND THE MINDSET

Rainbow Quakers $15.00

Rainbow Quakers Group, The Regious Society of Friends in Aotearoa New Zealand,

2024 71pp 

The authors of this, the Quaker Lecture 2024, are all part of the Rainbow Group, a network of LGBTQIA+Quakers in Aotearoa New Zealand. These writings represent the lived experience and individual understandings of the authors


 

WAIT AND WATCH 

SPIRITUAL PRACTICE, REHEARSAL, AND PERFORMANCE

 

John Andrew Gallery $25.00
 

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 485, US, 2024, 30pp

Using the analogy found in theatre, music concerts and sports, describes

how Meeting for Worship or Worship for Business can develop seven skills to transform

A TENDER TIME

Quaker VOICES ON THE END OF LIFE

 

Patricia M Nesbitt & Kristin Camitta Zimet $64.00

Baltimore Yearly Meeting, US, 2024, 212pp 

 

Collection of Quaker voices, historical and contemporary, that explores practical, emotional and spiritual aspects of aging and dying well. End of life decisions are discussed. 

 

 

 
George AND THE FLYING FOXES
Christine Hayes  $30.00

Compositions by Carn, Britain, 2024, 105 pp, Illustrated

 

For young people. Inspired by a true story, Story of George Fox and the Quakers. It begins with the hasty arrival of some lads involved in a fight into the Meeting House and how it was resolved ......

 

DEEP HOSPITALITY

Reflections on welcome to the Quaker community

Rhiaanon Grant  $25.00

Pendle Hill Phamplet 487, US, 2024,  30 pp

Author reflects on her experience in British Quakers, and calls for a more radical form of welcome. Discussion questions included

 

 

DO QUAKERS PRAY? 
Jennifer Kavanagh  $29.00
 

Christian Alternative Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2023, 64 pp

From the very popular Quaker Quick Series. What is prayer and when and how Quakers might pray

 

 

QUAKERS AND SCIENCE 
 
Helen Holt $28.00

Christian Alternative, UK, 2023, 87pp

From the Quaker Quick series. Strikingly orginal contribution to the science and religion debate and the distinctive approaches that Quaker Scientists have brought including social justice 

 

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.
InNER HEALING, INNER PEACE
a QUAKER PERSPECTIVE 
John and Diana Lampen $30.00
 

                                                         Christian-Alternative/Quaker Quicks Britain, 2023, 78pp

From the popular Quaker Quicks Series. What do Quakers have to offer when there 

is pain and distress, in body, mind and Spirit? Includes practice exercises readers can do for themselves 

 

EXPLORING ISAAC PENINGTON 
Ruth Tod  $28.00

Christian Alternative Quaker Quicks, Britain,  2023,  69pp

Another in the excellent Quaker Quicks series. Seventeenth Century Quaker mystic, teacher and activist. Builds a bridge between his time and now with examples to explore the beliefs and habits that shape our lives

ThE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF QUAKER SPIRITUALITY:

LIGHT IN THE CONSCIENCE 

David Johnson $25.00

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 483. US, 2023, 27pp

 

First Quakers rediscovered the early Christian experience that we can access divine guidance through our conscience 

OPEN TO NEW LIGHT
Quakers and Other FAITHS
Eleanor Nesbitt $30.00

Christian Alternative/Quaker Quicks, London, 2023, 83pp 

From the popular Quaker quicks series. Relates Quaker history and faith to other faiths, and the relationship between them 

IN SEARCH OF HOPE 
Joanna Godrey Wood  $26.00

          

Christian Alternative/Quaker Quicks, London, 2024, 84 pp

From the very popular Quaker Quicks series. 

A vibrant practical book which draws on the roots of Quaker tradition

to provide immediate and useful spiritual help in these challenging times 

 

 

 

God's ways, not our ways:

A dissident Quaker response to disability

Jackie Leach Scully  $27.00
 

2024 Backhouse Lecture from Australia Friends, 63pp

Looks at Quaker Testimony. From person and family experience, challenging Quakerrs to help build a world more incusive of difference and diversity

 

THE PROMISE OF RIGHT RELATIONSHIP
 
Pamela Haines  $30.00

Christian Alernative/Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2024, 79pp

Challenges us to reach for right relationships, in all aspects of our lives. 

Do we nourish ourselves and others, strive for equality, simplicity, peaceful? as our pathway forward

 

The Quaker Books Catalogue

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
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE-Insights and Stories from My Journey
Howard Zehr
Walnut Street Books, US, 2023, 218pp Illus
Interviews with and essays by Howard Zehr and for the first time details and photos from his personal journey
$40.00
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
RUFUS JONES AND THE PRESENCE OF GOD
Helen Holt
Christian Alternative/Quaker Quicks, UK, 2023, 79pp
Quaker Quicks series.Rufus Jones was a Quaker who controversially reshaped the way of thinking about God and humans and talks about his spiritual practices
$50.00
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
SEEDS OF SILENCE
R Melvin Keiser
Christian Alternative, US and Britain, 2021, 306pp
Questions modern world addiction to instant gratification & leads us back to contemplative thinking. A Quaker classic
$40.00
SEEKING UNION WITH SPIRIT: EXPERIENCES OF SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS
Fiona Gardner
Australia Yearly Meeting, Australia, 2020, 43pp
2020 Backhouse Lecture. How to integrate spiritual being in all aspects of our lives. A personal reflection to share
$16.00
SIMPLE FAITH IN A COMPLICATED WORLD,A
Kate McNally
Christian Alternative Quaker Quicks, Britain, 2023, 59pp
Kate came from mainstream faith but struggled, tried science & psychology, then at low point found Quakers & a simple faith of Jesus and Love one another
$27.00
SIMPLE GIFTS
Jan Marsh
Copy Press, Nelson, NZ, 2019, 150pp Illus
NZ Quaker. Reflects on the joy of her quiet life. Only needs a few minutes to dip in- for images & ideas to ponder
$25.00
SNAKES AND LADDERS
Rachel Brett
Quaker Books, London, 2012, 105pp
2012 Swarthmore Lecture. A personal exploration of Quaker work on human rights at the United Nations
$20.00
SOUL OF SUPERVISION, THE- Sale Price to Clear
Margaret Benefield and Geraldine Holton, Eds
Morehouse, US, 2010, 204pp
Integrating practice and theory, and bringing a spiritual dimension to supervision
$10.00
SPIRIT-LED ELDERING
Mearse Larrabee
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 392, US, 2007, 35pp
Integral to our faith and practice
$18.00
STANDING IN THIS PLACE
D James; J Wychel; M Short and L Wilson
Aotearoa New Zealand Yearly Meeting, 2014, 60pp
2014 Lecture. An example, how in NZ many Quakers have been involved in supporting Maori self determination
$10.00
STARS BENEATH US; Finding God in the evolving Cosmos
Paul Wallace
Fortress Press, US, 2015, 153pp
A Christian scientist brings faith & science together to inspire reading of the natural world in new ways & God
$5.00
STORIES OF BELONGING: A Journey Across Aotearoa
Anjum Rahman
ANZYM (Quakers), NZ, 2021, 24pp
2021 Quaker Lecture. Leader of Inclusive Aotearoa Collective Tahono, for all Kiwis. She is an Islamic media spokesperson
$15.00
SUM: Forty Tales from the afterlives Audio CD
David Eagleman
Cannongate, Britain, 2009
A new idea about heaven. Fills contemporary longing for a secular holy book
$5.00
TANGLED ROOTS
Judith Child
Quaker Book Sales, NZ, 2008, 63pp
Collection of poems by a New Zealand Friend
$5.00
TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD
Rhiannon Grant
Quaker Quicks, Christian Alternative, UK, 2019, 75pp
Quakers say we know not very much about God & are in a constant process trying to improve saying what we do know.
$25.00
TENDER TIME, A: Quaker Voices at the End of Life
Patricia Nesbitt and Kristion Zimet
Baltimore Yearly Meeting, US, 2024, 212pp
Collection of Quaker voices historical and contemporary that explores practical, emotional and spiritual aspects of aging and dying well. End of life decisions.
$64.00
TENDING SACRED GROUND: Respectful Parenting
Pamela Haines
Christian Alternative, US and Britain, 2022, 81pp
Quaker Quicks From a Quaker perspective shows how to cultivate respect, resilience, humility, connection, discernment and joy wider inclusion
$29.00
THAT CLEAR AND CERTAIN SOUND:Finding Solid Ground in Perilous Times
Pamela Haines
Christian Alternative/Quaker Quicks, US, 2021, 80pp
Meditations on being alive in these wonderful & perilous times encourages us to stay alert to truth even in unlikely places
$24.00
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF QUAKER SPIRITUALITY: LIGHT IN THE CONSCIENCE
David Johnson
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 483, 2023, US, 27pp
First Quakers rediscovered the early Christian experience that we can access divine guidance through our conscience
$25.00
THE INNER LEVEL
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
Allen Lane, Britain, 2018, 325pp Hardback
From "The Spirit Level" - how to make more equal societies, reduce stress, restore sanity and improve wellbeing
$39.00
THE MEETING
Charlotte Jones
Faber and Faber, London 2018, 103pp
Rachel & her deaf mother find a Quaker silent community but then war & a stranger changes all. A play.
$5.00
THE QUAKERS: A Very Short Introduction
Pink Dandelion
Oxford, Britain 2008, 142pp Illus
History and beliefs in very readable format from well known Quaker writer and tutor
$26.00
THE WORLD IN A SENTENCE
Sue Williams
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 486, 2024, US, 29pp
"Once in a while someone says something that stops me in my tracks" Author gives examples of this in thirty years of her work in peacebuilding around the world
$25.00
THIS WE CAN SAY: Australian Quaker Life, Faith and Thought
Australia Yearly Meeting
Australia Yearly Meeting, 2004, 352pp Illus
Australian Faith and Practice
$52.00