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A.N. Wilson's Jesus is a very good book indeed... His novelist's instinct is alert to the little details which bring Jesus to life...[it is] an excellent read and sends you scurrying back to buy the Gospels * Daily Telegraph * He writes beautifully... I found myself carried along on page after page -- William Westwood, Bishop of Peterborough * Mail on Sunday * Many aspects of Wilson's book will anger or amuse believing Christians and serious New Testament scholars... Anybody who knows the Gospels at all should find their understanding much challenged and enriched by this book * Guardian * Those exceptional talents displayed in his biographies are combined with those equally splendid gifts of imaginative writing which characterise his novels * Literary Review * A.N. Wilson writes like an angel * New Statesman and Society *

The announcement that A N Wilson, possibly the last survivor of that ancient trade, a man of letters, was to write a 'proper' biography of Jesus Christ gave rise to laughter, anxiety and gnashing of teeth, dependent on point of view; but in the main it was felt that the task was quite simply impossible. As it transpires the result is as the author intended, as near as possible the story of Jesus using the sources available. His success will undoubtedly be of little consolation to some devout Christians, and it should be said that the author is a recent apostate from that religion after a lifetime of belief. But the figure of Jesus that emerges is thoroughly sympathetic, if not quite the one we learnt about in Sunday School having been stripped of various dubious, if often biblical, accretions. (Kirkus UK)

A.N. Wilson writes like an angel New Statesman and Society Those exceptional talents displayed in his biographies are combined with those equally splendid gifts of imaginative writing which characterise his novels Literary Review Many aspects of Wilson's book will anger or amuse believing Christians and serious New Testament scholars... Anybody who knows the Gospels at all should find their understanding much challenged and enriched by this book Guardian He writes beautifully... I found myself carried along on page after page -- William Westwood, Bishop of Peterborough Mail on Sunday A.N. Wilson's Jesus is a very good book indeed... His novelist's instinct is alert to the little details which bring Jesus to life...[it is] an excellent read and sends you scurrying back to buy the Gospels Daily Telegraph

'A.N. Wilson writes like an angel.' New Statesman & Society; 'Many aspects of Wilson's book will anger or amuse believing Christians and serious New Testament scholars... Anybody who knows the Gospels at all should find their understanding much challenged and enriched by this book.' Jenny Turner, Guardian; 'A very profound and subtle examination of the religious imagination.' Andrew Brown, Independent

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A. N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.

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