books

With the arrival of spring and the marking of Passover, Lent and Easter come two new and very different books that chronicle the pleasures and challenges of an interfaith world.

The issue of book burning raised recently by a small church in Florida with its threats against the Qur'an touches sensitivities which are deeply felt by both religious and secular apprehensions, says Professor Chaiwat Satha-Anand. Unless we have the emotional and intellectual intelligence to understand what is at stake in this, we risk further fuelling deadly conflicts.

Celebrated novelist and essayist Andrew O’Hagan has agreed to be the patron of this year’s Christian Aid Book Sale in Edinburgh, one of the global development agency's big annual fundraisers.

Literacy remains a major barrier to the development of African countries. Despite the progress achieved since 1990, the absolute number of African adults who cannot read or write has increased to 136 million. Click here to vist the Oxfam Unwrapped Gift Collection