{"product_id":"9781800755338","title":"Last Words","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Holloway, Richard \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 28 August 2025 by Swift Press in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 208 pages\u003cbr\u003e223 x 144 x 23 | 318g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Holloway has been the archetypal 'turbulent priest'. Having risen to be the Primus (Head) of the Scottish Episcopal Church, he abandoned religion and ecclesiastical office to fight for the rights of minorities and to write a string of best selling books, most famously Leaving Alexandria. He also became Chairman of the Scottish Arts Council.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this, his last book, he reflects deeply on his life, most especially as a child of desperately poor parents in Dumbartonshire in Scotland. He tells the story of how he found faith but then abandoned Christian orthodoxy after leaving office as Head of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and discovered a new life as a writer, broadcaster, journalist and public intellectual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book opens and ends with chapters of a philosophical kind in which he explains how he lost belief in a loving God and became true to himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47185636491523,"sku":"9781800755338","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781800755338.jpg?v=1757513020","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.pro\/products\/9781800755338","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}