Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
Apart from being the book that inspired me to become a writer, this is a marvellously conflicted story of murder and eternal damnation. Pinkie is a 17-year-old boy gangster in charge of a pathetic but dangerous gang of misfits, commits murder. But as a devout Catholic he is terrified of eternal damnation and his terror becomes the dominant theme through the book.
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Still a genuine page-turner, this was a brave book – it proved that there was a genuine appetite among a mass readership for a thriller that incorporated both spiritual learning and theological arguments.
God’s Undertaker
John Lennox
An immensely enjoyable read from Christian apologist and maths professor (there’s a combination!) Lennox. It posits the argument that science, far from destroying the idea of God, might ultimately prove his existence…
