The Pilgrim - Softcover

Bunn, Davis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910674400 ISBN 13: 9781910674406

Publisher: Marylebone House, 2016

Synopsis

The story of the discovery of the True Cross, featuring one of the most important women in Christian history

Abandoned by her husband, in danger because of her faith, but determined to do what God calls her to, Empress Helena sets out on pilgrimage through the ancient landscapes of Caesarea and Judea. Here she is stalked by the menacing Roman assassin Severus. Yet she also meets those who would help her: the wise and wizened bishop Macarius; the rough-edged but kind-hearted sergeant Cratus, and the young soldier Anthony, a man who has lost everything.

Miracles seem to follow this humble but determined woman as she wins many over to the faith, and changes lives forever - including her own.

'Davis is a master storyteller and his ability to tell an ancient tale in a contemporary style regularly leaves readers wanting more.'
Dave Milbrandt, author of Chasing Deception

'[Bunn] does something few Christian fiction writers do . . . his stories open readers to a bigger multicultural and multireligious world . . . he always seems to surprise and lead into places readers don't expect.'
Publishers Weekly

A prequel to The Fragment, also published by Marylebone House

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Review:

Davis is a master storyteller and his ability to tell an ancient tale in a contemporary style regularly leaves readers wanting more. Author: Dave Milbrandt, author, Chasing Deception

[Bunn] does something few Christian fiction writers do . . . his stories open readers to a bigger multicultural and multireligious world . . . he always seems to surprise and lead into places readers don't expect. Source: Publishers Weekly

[Bunn] has sifted through the few facts and many legends about the life of Helena, mother of the first Christian Roman emperor Constantine, and created a story to which readers today can relate. Source: Goodreads

[Of other titles by the author] Davis Bunn has created a thinking person's Indiana Jones. Author: Hy Smith, Senior Vice President, United International Pictures

[An] imaginative and captivating story. Source: Methodist Recorder

It is best not to read this as real historical fiction, but relax and regard it as a means by which the author tells us some important truths, which he does superlatively well. Source: Church Times

From the Author:

Davis Bunn, a professional novelist for twenty-four years, has sales in excess of seven million copies in twenty languages. He has appeared on numerous national bestseller lists, and his titles have been Main or Featured Selections with every major U.S. bookclub. Davis is Writer-In-Residence at Regent's Park College, Oxford University, and has served as lecturer in Oxford's new creative writing program. In 2011, his novel Lion of Babylon was named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal. The sequel, Rare Earth, won Davis his fourth Christy Award for Excellence in Fiction in 2013. In 2014, Davis was granted the Lifetime Achievement award by the Christy board of judges.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marylebone House
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1910674400
• ISBN 13: 9781910674406
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176