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Mark's Gospel double CD

'This is the real thing... Peter Wickham's brilliant reading'

Sue Arnold in The Guardian

£12.99

A student friendly way to learn the texts for Mark's Gospel for the exam!

Books by

William Barclay

We're very pleased to offer books by William Barclay, one of the greatest Biblical scholars and Christian writers.  St Mark's Press publishes:

The Gospels and Acts:

Matthew, Mark and Luke

The Gospels and Acts:

John and Acts

The Mind of St Paul

Simon and Chris Danes

£9.95   ISBN 978-1-907062-11-7

Mark in 40 Days provides a short Bible study course.  Each day has a set reading, notes, and a topic for reflection.  The entire Gospel is covered. 

Accessible, straightforward, informative.

£9.95 plus £2 p+p.  Please go to the 'how to order' page.  

TRADE ENQUIRIES WELCOME 

Mark in 40 Days

Daily readings from the Gospel

Updated edition of the highly popular guide, formerly from Lion - £6.50

Suitable for ALL GCSE specifications which set Mark. 

It includes:

- Full coverage of the set texts and other topics required;

- Advice on how to revise effectively (this section has proved very useful indeed for students);

- Test yourself questions on Mark;

- Practice exam questions.

- Student friendly, accessible, clear...  everything needed to approach the exam with confidence.

TES review

of

Philosophy of

Religion for Today:

This carefully thought out, engaging textbook for GCSE Religious Studies will provide much-needed support...  It addresses the dilemmas surrounding belief with a well-paced but engaging assuredness and the use of analogy in illustrating specific issues is particularly effective.  The text is well laid out and attractively presented...  This should prove a valuable resource not only for teachers at GCSE level but also at AS and A level.  The content and the clearly focussed questions should ensure that students gain a sound, well-structured understanding of the subject.

£14.75 each or £10 each for 5 or more copies

£14.75 each or £10 each for 5 or more copies

Mark: A Gospel for Today was reviewed by

RE Today in 2012: 

'I would thoroughly recommend this textbook for anyone studying Mark's Gospel.'

'The layout of each page is easy to read with key details bullet-pointed and definitions explained.  At the end of the book are "memory test" questions with answers which are a very useful quick summary picking out the key facts.'  And 'this will be of immense value to any teacher new to teaching Mark's Gospel, who will undoubtedly find the content clear and will be securely guided in meeting the needs of their students.'

Comments from

teachers and

students about

The Today Series:

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We love it!

 The book is

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I found myself wanting to read more!

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is relaxed

Students have been inspired by

Mark: A Gospel for Today

It's great to have a
philosophy textbook
that has pictures in it!

The conversational style is absorbing, while difficult concepts are clearly and painstakingly explained, using imaginative examples pupils can understand

Packed full of information;  a significant amount of the material is simply not found in other textbooks.  I'm much enjoying using it.

The original Lion editions of Mark: A Gospel for

Today and Today's Issues and Christian Beliefs:

Essential items for GCSE RS revision:

New RE scheme for Key Stage 3 in Catholic Schools:

And Now the Good News

Book One

(for Year 7 - 11-12 year olds) is out now

£14.95 each or £10 each for class sets of 25 or more copies

Inspection copies available:  please ring or email us

Order now!

£1 donated to Traidcraft for every copy sold

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TRADE ENQUIRIES WELCOME

And Now the Good News is the new scheme for KS3 RE in Catholic Schools from St Mark's Press.

- Book One (Year 7) is now available

- Written by Simon Danes, co-author of the highly acclaimed and bestselling textbooks Mark: A Gospel for Today and Today's Issues and Christian Beliefs

- Book One Teacher's Book is also available, price £7.50.  £1 is donated to Traidcraft for every copy sold.

Praise for other textbooks from the same author:

RE Today: 

'The quality of these resources is excellent'

'I would thoroughly recommend this textbook'

TES: 

'This carefully thought out, engaging textbook...'

British Journal of Religious Education:  'Content is made accessible to the less able, yet there is plenty to challenge those who can go further...  Catering for a wide ability range and engaging the interest of all'

For more details, please click the button for  'And Now the Good News'

£14.75 each or £10 each for 5 or more copies

Published 25th April 2013:

Fifty Years in Time

and Space: 

A Short History of Doctor Who

Frank Danes

Doctor Who has been a television institution for fifty years and is the longest running science fiction series in the world.

Beginning as a filler between Grandstand and Juke Box Jury, it was only expected to last for thirteen episodes.   It soon became a national and international smash hit and is now the BBC’s flagship drama programme.

Fifty Years in Time and Space is published on 25th April.  You can order your copy now by PayPal (use the button on the left) - or please ring or email us.

Fifty Years in Time and Space tells the story of Doctor Who from 1963 to 2013, covering the action on screen and behind the scenes.  Whether you’re a serious fan or new to the series, travel with the Doctor through half a century of change in British culture.  Battle the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Master, and the Weeping Angels!

Find out about the Doctor’s name; regeneration; the series’ representations of the Second World War and the Cold War; the cancellation crises of 1985 and 1989; the TV movie; the Dalek films of the 1960s and Doctor Who’s triumphant resurrection in 2005.

Board the TARDIS and relive fifty years of a television legend!

The author:    Frank Danes studied English and American Literature at the University of Kent.  He is the author of Victorian Literature: Teachers’ Resource (Cambridge University Press) and is Head of English at King’s Ely in Cambridgeshire.   His favourite Doctors are Patrick Troughton, Matt Smith and Tom Baker.

Frank writes:

This book aims to be a guide to fifty years of the series for those who like Doctor Who and want to learn more about it.  It aims to be of interest to readers who enjoy the post 2005 revival and want to know more about the original series.  I also hope it will be of interest to the die hard, knowledgeable fans who, perhaps lifelong fans like me, devour anything about Doctor Who that they can get their hands on.  It is inevitably a personal reading of the series and is coloured by my own critical preferences:  any book about the programme which doesn't demonstrate the author's own views would, I think, be very dull. 

I was born in 1965 - on a Saturday, in fact, and just in time to watch 'Galaxy Four' episode two.  Some of my earliest memories are of watching the series.  I must have seen 'Seeds of Death' (1968) and 'The Evil of the Daleks' (1967), although I have no memory of them, as I thought the Silurians in 'Doctor Who and the Silurians' (1970) were Ice Warriors and I was not only able to remember the Daleks when they reappeared in 'Day of the Daleks' (1972) but was able to correct a nursery worker at my pre-school when she erroneously called the Marx toy Dalek, which graced our playgroup, 'a robot'.  My brother and I went down the road to watch the programme in colour in the early seventies, at a time when a colour television cost something in the region of £2000 in today's money; we would return to tell our father, who watched in black and white, what colour the monsters were (usually green).  I co-edited a fanzine in the 1980s, did some professional writing, got a degree in English and American Literature and became a secondary school English teacher.  I've always been a Doctor Who fan even as I have become (in script editor Terrance Dicks' words) older, fatter, greyer, but not noticeably wiser.