23 July 2015, The Tablet

Read faced


 
What do priests read on holiday?  Last week we offered you a smorgasbord of summer reading from esteemed contributors but, pointed out Tablet reader Fr Terry Tastard, none of them were clerics. “Some of us have been known to crack open a book and persevere to the end,” he said.Nostra culpa: so to make amends, we asked Fr Tastard and some of his fellow priests to share their recommendations. He suggests Revd Richard Coles’ Fathomless Riches (above) which has many “laugh-out-loud passages, impressive cultural range and a conversion story at its heart”.London University chaplain Fr Stephen Wang, meanwhile, says he has two books loaded on to his Kindle: Paradise City by Elizabeth Day, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Antifragile - “a mind-bending inte
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