Author(s): Richard Holloway

Non-Fiction

With organised religions seemingly out of touch and yet people wanting spiritual guidance as much now as ever before, Richard Holloway's timely new book offers as good, and as liberating, a guide to living (and dying) as you will find. In many respects a companion volume to Godless Morality (Canongate, 1999), Looking in the Distance celebrates the possibilities that life affords whilst examining how doubts and fears too often paralyse people, especially as they get older. It is a highly personal and meditative work that will inspire whoever reads it, helping us to understand better the different ways in which the human search for wholeness and healing can be approached. As with all his books, Holloway peppers his lively prose with an eclectic selection of pithy writings from poets, philosophers and novelists from around the world and across the centuries. The resulting book presents a brilliantly argued thesis that is both challenging and empowering. In the manner of the best work by Alain de Botton, Looking in the Distance is accessible, funny, serious, hopeful and heartfelt - a book that will change your life.