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Shirley du Boulay

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Shirley du Boulay is an author and biographer, resident in Oxford.

She embarked on a career with the BBC, becoming a programme producer specializing in religious programming, and retired from the BBC to work as an author.[1] Her biographical subjects tend to be individuals who have taken a spiritual journey of their own, and whose subsequent influence has been important.


Biographies:
  • The Cave of the Heart: The Life of Swami Abhishiktananda - Orbis Books, 2007. ISBN 978-1-57075-610-8
  • Cicely Saunders: The Founder of the Modern Hospice Movement - SPCK Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-0-281-05889-1[2]
  • Beyond the Darkness: A Biography of Bede Griffiths - Doubleday, 1998. ISBN 978-0-385-48946-1[3]
  • Teresa of Avila: An Extraordinary Life - Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. ISBN 978-0-340-51864-9[4]
  • Tutu, Voice of the Voiceless - Eerdmans Publishing, 1988. ISBN 978-0-8028-3649-6[5]
  • Changing the Face of Death: The Story of Dame Cicely Saunders - Religious and Moral Education Press, 2000. ISBN 978-1-85175-217-1


Other books:
  • The Road to Canterbury: A Modern Pilgrimage - Morehouse Group, 1995. ISBN 978-0-8192-1645-8
  • The Gardeners - Hodder & Stoughton, 1985.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Advisors to the Bede Griffiths Trust". Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  2. ^ "The Florence Nightingale of hospices". The Glasgow Herald. 19 March 1984. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  3. ^ "BEYOND the Darkness (Book)". Contemporary Review. March 1999. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  4. ^ "Teresa of Avila led reformation of Carmelites". Youngstown Vindicator. 26 July 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  5. ^ "Walking a thin line between extremists in South Africa". Toronto Star. 14 August 1988. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  6. ^ "The gardener's garden". The Glasgow Herald. 13 November 1985. Retrieved 14 February 2011.