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Recent recommended reading fodder...
Karen Armstrong - Ex-nun with crucial inter-faith understanding and brain the size of China. Start with The Spiral Staircase, her brilliant autobiography
Richard Holloway - The ex-bishop of Edinburgh and a champion of religionless ethics, his recent books include the excellent Forgiveness and Looking in the Distance
Michael Leunig - Ozzie cartoonist-poet who's frustratingly difficult to get hold of in the UK. Beautiful, sad, life enhancing stuff
Alastair McIntosh - Soil and Soul, his genre-busting memoir-manifesto for a spiritual and sustainable society has won plaudits from Thom Yorke and George Monbiot
Jonathan Raban - The king of travel writers, and a nautical type to boot. Try Old Glory, Coasting or Passage to Juneau - or the recent Surveillance if you fancy a novel
Richard Rohr - Franciscan monk and social activist with a radical message of hope. An antidote to the US fundamentalist agenda. Simplicity is a good place to start
And a few more for good measure: Rory Maclean and Jenny Diski for travel; Anne Lamott, Natalie Goldberg and Annie Dillard for writing advice; John O'Donahue, Alan Bennett, Douglas Coupland, John Gray, Pico Iyer, Jon Ronson...