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Novel: Pilgrims by Matthew Kneale

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This book is listed on Amazon uk for release on 4th June.
Pilgrims, by Matthew Kneale.

I have no connection with the author, and am not promoting it ;). I'm just passing on the information on something possibly to look forward to.

1289. A rich farmer fears he'll go to hell for cheating his neighbours. His wife wants pilgrim badges to sew into her hat and show off at church. A poor, ragged villager is convinced his beloved cat is suffering in the fires of purgatory and must be rescued. A mother believes her son's dangerous illness is punishment for her own adultery and seeks forgiveness so he may be cured. A landlord is in trouble with the church after he punched an abbot on the nose. A sexually driven noblewoman seeks a divorce so she can marry her new young beau.

These are among a ragtag band of pilgrims that sets off on the tough and dangerous journey from England to Rome, where they hope all their troubles and their prayers will be answered. Some in the group, however, have their own secret reasons for going. Others, while they might aspire to piety, succumb all too often to the sins of the flesh.

A riveting, sweeping novel of medieval society and historic Englishness, Pilgrims illuminates the fallibility of humans, the absurdities and consolations of belief, and the very real violence at the heart of religious fervour.
 
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This book is listed on Amazon uk for release on 4th June.
Pilgrims, by Matthew Kneale.

Noooooo . . . .

This item does not ship to South Africa. Currently unavailable for delivery to your region due to high demand. We are working to resume delivery as soon as possible.

Please let me know if you see it in Kindle . . . .
 
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Noooooo . . . .

This item does not ship to South Africa. Currently unavailable for delivery to your region due to high demand. We are working to resume delivery as soon as possible.

Please let me know if you see it in Kindle . . . .
Jill it is not released until 4th June...Amazon often gives slightly strange messages for books which are not yet released. I think the 'system' has a problem.

Strangely too they sometimes accidentally(?) release a book on Kindle before it is published on paper. i read a novel that way last month. I will keep an eye on developments. Amazon have (quite understandably) largely stopped next day delivery here in UK.

i hope you are safe and well. T
 
Noooooo . . . .

This item does not ship to South Africa. Currently unavailable for delivery to your region due to high demand. We are working to resume delivery as soon as possible.

Please let me know if you see it in Kindle . . . .
@jsalt Just checked today Jill and I see Amazon UK listing it on Kindle for 4th June. I am waiting for the print version, due out on the same day. Tim
 
@jsalt I did a (personal) review of this book for the newsletter of CPR. You can see it here.

If anyone is planning to walk to Rome I do highly recommend joining the Confraternity https://pilgrimstorome.org.uk/ - there are many far more interesting and useful things available there than my review! ;)

I would be interested to hear what anyone else made of the book.
 
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@jsalt I did a (personal) review of this book for the newsletter of CPR. You can see it here.

If anyone is planning to walk to Rome I do highly recommend joining the Confraternity https://pilgrimstorome.org.uk/ - there are many far more interesting and useful things available there than my review! ;)

I would be interested to hear what anyone else made of the book.
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@Monk Moses
Nice to see you here. I am a (Roman) Catholic priest. I continued walking from Rome and hope still one day to get to Jerusalem. I got as far as Thessaloniki so far.
My understanding of the 'Eastern Rites' is sadly lacking but I was very happy to meet a Byzantine (Greek) Catholic priest (from Hungary) in the parish in Giannitsa a little bit before Thessaloniki last year.
He was π. Szabolcs Papp
Γεννήθηκε στο Debrecen Ουγγαρίας στις 13/4/1968
Χειροτονήθηκε Ιερέας στη Máriapócs στις 29/5/1994
 
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@Monk Moses
Nice to see you here. I am a (Roman) Catholic priest. I continued walking from Rome and hope still one day to get to Jerusalem. I got as far as Thessaloniki so far.
My understanding of the 'Eastern Rites' is sadly lacking but I was very happy to meet a Byzantine (Greek) Catholic priest (from Hungary) in the parish in Giannitsa a little bit before Thessaloniki last year.
He was π. Szabolcs Papp
Γεννήθηκε στο Debrecen Ουγγαρίας στις 13/4/1968
Χειροτονήθηκε Ιερέας στη Máriapócs στις 29/5/1994
Nice to see you here too Father! I’m a Byzantine Catholic monk and deacon. I hope to walk Canterbury to Rome next summer. Be assured of my prayers! Ultreia!
 
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