The Saint Austin Press
Publishers of Catholic Books
1400 years after St. Augustine first brought hope to the English, the true faith that he preached still inspires young hearts and minds
The Saint Austin Press is a publishing activity set up by young Catholics to promote the links between faith and culture. Our books cover a wide a range of subjects, including Scipture, literature and the arts, spirituality, the saints.
Please pray for our work. We hope that our books are of interest: we always
welcome suggestions and comments (e-mail us at books@saintaustin.org).
God bless you, and thank you for your support.
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Reflections Poems by Ruth Asch. Ruth Asch's religious faith deeply marks a poetic voice which is filled with meditations on human weakness redeemed by transcendent beauty.
The poems in this book cover a wide spectrum of style and tone, from reflective sonnets to witty free verse, capturing many of the thoughts and experiences of this young woman for whom words and feelings acquire new energy and meaning, through her distinctive rhythm and imagery.
ISBN 1 901157 46 6, 136 pages, paperback, $10.00 international price. BUY Reflections NOW |
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A History of the Spanish Heterodox; vol. 1 by Marcelino Menendez Pelayo, translated by Eladia Gomez-Posthill.
A Spanish saga of heretics, witches and saints ... Menéndez Pelayo, Spain's leading intellectual figure in the 19th century, tells the glorious tale of how Spain's Catholicism heroically survived all attemps against her; and in beautiful prose too, here rendered into English for the first time. The present volume deals with the challenges early Christianity faced in Spain prior to the Middle Ages. Books 2 and 3(in preparation) bring the history up to the eve of the Reformation. The author's introduction to the first edition ends with a prayer: "May God give me the light of understanding and a humble firmness of will; may He steer and guide my pen to narrate without anger or bias the sad history of error among our peninsular people! May He grant that this history may foster enlightenment and benefit, not scandal, to Christians everywhere." Few books of ecclesiastical history make for such a gripping read.
ISBN 1 901157 98 9, 270 pages, paperback, $15.00 international price. BUY A History of the Spanish Heterodox NOW |
Summer 2010: Saint Austin Press is changing its main UK distribution arrangements. For the moment, all book buying queries should be directed to books@saintaustin.org
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This page last updated 10th November 2010
At that time there was no significant Catholic book publishing in the UK, a stark contrast with the vibrant publishing scene of the 1950s.
In the years that followed, the Catholic Truth Society carried out an overhaul of its organisation and moved slowly back into publishing books as well as pamphlets. In addition, Family Publications and Gracewing evolved into fully-fledged Catholic publishing houses.
In its most active period the Press was publishing a book each month and we in fact published over 50 titles in a relatively short space of time. Pleased with these developments, and in a bid to provide a forum for the renaissance in orthodox Catholic intellectual circles in Britain - in close contact with the much more active Catholic world in the United States - Saint Austin's Publisher, Ferdi McDermott, together with Robert Asch, then Editor of the Press and Joseph Pearce, then beginning his career as a successful literary biographer, founded a new monthly review of culture, StAR (the Saint Austin Review.)
Since then StAR has been taken over by Ave Maria University in the United States, and more recently by St Augustine's Press, Inc., and is now published 6 times per year. With the welcome expansion and professionalisation of Catholic publishing in the UK Saint Austin Press now sees its task as keeping key titles in print from its backlist and providing opportunities for more scholarly works to be published. It continues its work of promoting conferences and study courses, in partnership with other institutions such as Chavagnes International College in France.