Anne Bradstreet became America's first published poet in the mid 1600's. She struggled with ill-health, in addition to the challenges of raising a family in the harsh conditions of colonial New England. This biography will particularly interest young women looking to read from godly mentors.

In her typically engaging and enthralling style, Faith Cook shows us how God graciously works in individuals' lives. Among others here we find the encouraging short stories of John Foxe, Fanny Guiness, John Gifford and 'Grimshaw's men', Paul Greenwood and Jonathan Maskew

William Grimshaw of Haworth in Yorkshire, born 14 September 1708, was regarded by J C Ryle as one of the three greatest men of the eighteenth century Evangelical Revival; the other two being John Wesley and George Whitefield. And yet he is little known today.

Here is a collection of ten biographical sketches spanning a timescale of 450 years from John Rogers in the 1500s to Fred Mitchell in the 1950s. In her inimitable style, Faith Cook draws the reader deeply into each story. Moving through time, this little book will encourage the reader by showing aga... (more)

Hal had seen it coming. It was all a plot, a wicked plot. Lady Jane was being snared in a plot. Suddenly he found himself thinking of a spider’s web that he had seen up in the rafters when he had broken his leg. He remembered how the helpless fly was trapped in the fine silken threads. Was Lady Jane... (more)

Imagine you are growing up in an eighteenth-century village high up in the Yorkshire Moors. Times are very hard, and you have to work long hours to help your family to have even the basic essentials. Disease and death are all around you — even the death of young children. This is the life of Tom ... (more)

A number of books that detail the stories or circumstances behind the writing of some of our popular hymns have been published over the years. But this work traces the development of the English hymn from the early period of the Christian Church up until our present century by means of biographical ... (more)

Faith Cook's own missionary childhood in war-torn China. Read this book, and appreciate in a new way the care and mercy of God, overruling even in the tragedies of life and turning them to good for his people.