Saturday, 25 October 2025

John Of The Cross: Man And Mystic by Richard P Hardy


About the book: St John of the Cross, great mystic of the Christian tradition, knew suffering firsthand: his personal “dark night” included exile, imprisonment, starvation, abuse. 

Yet sustained by tremendous faith and steeped in an enormous love for God and humanity, John surrendered to the Divine and was drawn through his experiences to a profound compassion for and solidarity with others.

This engaging contemporary biography is the perfect introduction—or an enjoyable re-acquaintance—to a man whose life, writings, and spirituality have illuminated the Christian world.

ICS Publications is pleased to have this this sought-after and highly acclaimed biography, out of print for a decade, among our titles.

John of the Cross: Man and Mystic (2004) includes a reading guide to the works of St John of the Cross, a selection from his works, 24 pages of colour photos and reproductions of masterpiece artwork, and an extensive bibliography and notes.

About the author: Richard P Hardy received his doctorate at the University of Strasbourg, France, and is a professor of Christian Spirituality, lecturing in the United States, Canada, Philippines, and Hong Kong. His workshops, retreats, and conferences on Carmelite spirituality focus particularly on St John of the Cross and St Teresa of Ávila. He lives in San Francisco.

Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Nobody's Girl: A Memoir Of Surviving Abuse And Fighting For Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre


About the book: Daughter. Prisoner. Survivor. Warrior. Nobody’s Girl. This is Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s last word.

In 2011, Virginia Roberts Giuffre hit the headlines as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most outspoken victim: the woman whose decision to speak out helped send both serial abusers to prison and whose photograph with Prince Andrew catalyzed his fall from grace. But first and foremost, she became known as a voice of courage and resilience for women everywhere. This is her story, in her own words. A story that has never been told in full before now. It demonstrates with extraordinary power that victims are made, not born. And that once you come to truly understand the horrifying impact of abuse, you will never again question why a victim stays, or returns over and over again.

In April 2025, Giuffre took her own life. She left behind a memoir written in the years preceding her death and stated unequivocally that she wanted it published. This is the powerful story of an ordinary girl who would grow up to confront adversity and trauma of the darkest form, yet found the strength to move forwards, reclaim her voice and shine a light on evil – advocating for others and fighting for a safer, fairer world.

Nobody’s Girl (2025) is a remarkable recounting of one woman’s fortitude in the face of depravity and despair, and the legacy she leaves behind and the unforgettable memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who dared to take on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

About the author: Virginia Roberts Giuffre (1983-2025) was an activist and advocate for sex trafficking survivors. She lived in Australia with her family.

Tuesday, 21 October 2025

My Brother Jason: The Untold Story Of The Life And Brutal Killing Of Jason Corbett By Tom And Molly Martens by Tracey Corbett-Lynch and Ralph Riegel


About the book: In August 2015, Limerick man Jason Corbett was killed by his wife, Molly Martens, and her father, ex-FBI agent Tom Martens, in the bedroom of their luxury North Carolina home. 

He had been savagely beaten to death with a baseball bat and brick while his children slept nearby.

For his sister, Tracey Corbett-Lynch, and the rest of his family in Ireland, it was just the beginning of the nightmare that would involve a custody battle for his orphaned children, an online hate campaign by Molly Martens and a gripping trial that would lead to her conviction, alongside her father, for his murder. 

But that was not the end of it. 

Tom and Molly Martens’ convictions were later quashed on appeal and the pair agreed a plea deal, accepting the charges of voluntary manslaughter in relation to the killing.

Now fully updated to include details of the 2023 sentencing hearing, My Brother Jason (2024) reveals the full and shocking story of what Molly and Tom Martens tried to get away with.

P/S On 9 August 2017, after less than 4 hours of jury deliberations, 67-year-old Thomas Martens and his 33-year-old daughter Molly Corbett Martens were unanimously found guilty of the second-degree murder of Jason Corbett. Both were sentenced to a minimum of 20 years and a maximum of 25 years in prison, as per the prosecution's recommendation. On 6 June 2024, Molly Martens Corbett and Thomas Martens were released from prison after completing their sentences for the voluntary manslaughter of Jason Corbett. A Netflix documentary regarding Corbett's death, titled A Deadly American Marriage, was released on 9 May 2025. (Source: Wikipedia)

About the authors: Tracey Corbett-Lynch is mother of four children. Dean and Adam are her two eldest with her husband David. Jack and Sarah are her brother Jason Corbett’s children whom she fought for after he was killed.

Ralph Riegel is Southern Correspondent for the Irish Independent. Previous books include Afraid of the Dark: The Tragic Story of Robert Holohan and Shattered: Killers Do Time, Victims’ Families Do Life; My Brother Jason and A Dream of Death. He lives in Cork.

Saturday, 18 October 2025

Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson


About the book: Every winter, in the days leading up to Christmas, Benedikt walks into the snowy mountains of Iceland to rescue sheep lost in the blizzards.

With his dog and his ram by his side, traversing wild snowstorms and crystalline nights, fuelled by endless cups of hot coffee, Benedikt dedicates himself to helping other living beings in need. 

It is midwinter in the harshest of landscapes, but this is a place of deep belonging and peace – brutal and remorseless yet irresistible and indispensable. It is also a time of peace, filled with the anticipation of that special time of year – the days before Christmas: Advent.

This enchanting Icelandic classic of one man’s selfless quest at Christmas time has been newly translated into English for the first time in 90 years.

Advent (2025) is translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton.

About the author: Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889–1975) grew up on a farm in the Fljotsdalur district of East Iceland and went on to become one of the most popular novelists in Denmark and Germany. His career began with his first novel, Af Borgslægtens Historie (translated into English as Guest the One-Eyed), which was published by Gyldendal in 1912-1914 and was adapted for cinema in 1919, the first Icelandic writing ever to be made into a film. During the next two and a half decades, Gunnarsson wrote numerous novels, short stories, poems and plays. His books were printed in many countries though his popularity was concentrated in Denmark and Germany. Ships in the Sky made it to sixth place on the New York Times bestseller list in 1938. Advent, also titled The Good Shepherd, is perhaps his most enduring book and is still widely read today.

About the translator: Philip Roughton was born in the US in 1965 and now lives in Iceland. Philip Roughton is an award-winning translator of Icelandic literature. He earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder, with specialties in medieval Icelandic, medieval Chinese, and Latin literature, and wrote his dissertation on medieval Icelandic translations of saints’ and apostles’ lives. He has taught modern and world literature at CU-Boulder, and medieval literature at the University of Iceland. His translations include works by many of Iceland’s best-known writers, including the Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Bergsveinn Birgisson, Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, and others. He was awarded the 2015 American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Competition Prize, for his translation of Halldór Laxness’ novel Gerpla (Wayward Heroes), the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for 2016, for his translation of Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s The Heart of Man, and an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship for 2017.

Rating: 5/5

Monday, 13 October 2025

Hostage by Eli Sharabi


About the book: On 7 October 2023, Hamas terrorists stormed Kibbutz Be’eri, shattering the peaceful life Eli Sharabi had built with his British wife, Lianne, and their teenage daughters, Noiya and Yahel. 

Dragged barefoot out of his front door while his family watched in horror, Sharabi was plunged into the suffocating darkness of Gaza’s tunnels. 

In total, he endured a gruelling 491 days in captivity - all the while holding onto the hope that he would one day be reunited with his loved ones.

In the first memoir by a released Israeli hostage, and the fastest-selling book in Israel’s history, Sharabi offers a searing firsthand account of survival under unimaginable conditions - starvation, isolation, physical beatings, and psychological abuse at the hands of his captors.

Eli Sharabi’s story is one of hunger and heartache, of physical pain, longing, loneliness and a helplessness that threatens to destroy the soul. But it is also a story of strength, of resilience, and of the human spirit’s refusal to surrender. It is about the camaraderie forged in captivity, the quiet power of faith, and one man’s unrelenting decision to choose life, time and time again.

Reminiscent of Elie Wiesel’s Night, Hostage (2025) is a profound witness to history, so that it shall be neither forgotten nor erased.

Hostage was translated from the Hebrew by Eylon Levy, a former Israeli government spokesperson. Sharabi's Hebrew memoir was originally published in May 2025, just four months after his release.

About the author: Eli Sharabi is a former hostage who survived 491 days in Hamas captivity following his abduction from Kibbutz Be’eri on 7 October 2023. Sharabi has since become a global advocate for the remaining hostages, meeting with world leaders like US President Donald Trump, speaking at the United Nations, and sharing his story with audiences around the world. His memoir, Hostage, the first published account by a released Israeli hostage, became an instant number one bestseller in Hebrew, and the fastest selling book in Israeli history.

Born in Tel Aviv to Yemenite and Moroccan parents, Sharabi moved to Be’eri as a teenager and later married Lianne, a British woman with whom he shared two daughters, Noiya and Yahel, aged sixteen and thirteen. A longtime resident of Be’eri, Sharabi served as the Kibbutz’s business manager, as well as the Chief Financial Officer of the Kibbutz, Be’eri Printing, and other private companies in Israel. Sharabi continues to work tirelessly as a leader in the campaign for the release of captives.

About the translator: Eylon Levy is the head of the Israeli Citizen Spokespersons’ Office and host of the State of a Nation podcast. He served as an Israeli Government Spokesman in the 7 October War, becoming one of the leading voices for Israel. He previously served as International Media Advisor to President Isaac Herzog, after a career as a TV news anchor. He holds degrees from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and served in the IDF as a lone soldier after making aliyah from Britain.

As a Hebrew-to-English literature translator, Levy has translated several influential works of Hebrew non-fiction. In 2022, he was named the inaugural translation finalist of the Sami Rohr Prize in recognition of his translation of Danny Adeno Abebe's memoir From Africa to Zion. Among his previously published works are The Israeli Century by Yossi Shain (2021), The Fifth Fiasco by David Passig (2021) and Frayed by Yair Ettinger (2023).

Levy was also the co-creator of the musical comedy A Theory of Justice: The Musical, which premiered in Oxford in 2013 and was revived for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it was nominated for four awards. (Source: LinkedIn and Wikipedia)

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Definition: Isolophilia


Deadly Silence: A Sister’s Battle To Uncover The Truth Behind the Murder of Clodagh And Her Sons By Alan Hawe by Jacqueline Connolly with Kathryn Rogers


About the book: Deadly Silence: A Sister’s Battle To Uncover The Truth Behind the Murder of Clodagh And Her Sons By Alan Hawe (2025) is the heart-breaking account of a search for the truth behind the brutal killings that shocked a nation.

On 29 August 2016, devastating news hit the headlines that an entire family was found dead in a rural community. For Jacqueline Connolly, this was a deeply personal and life-shattering tragedy, as she discovered her sister Clodagh, along with her nephews Liam, Niall and Ryan, were killed by their husband and father Alan Hawe.

Here, Jacqueline discloses the circumstances leading up to these tragic events, including Hawe's manipulation and coercive control of her unsuspecting sister.

Her gripping account tells of her family's painful struggle to expose critical failures in the initial garda investigation, as they uncovered the terrible darkness behind Hawe's 'pillar-of-the-community' facade.

Jacqueline also reveals many of the shocking, unpublished findings of the recent Garda Serious Crime Review, details that challenge our understanding of domestic violence and family annihilators, while laying bare a mass murder - Ireland's largest murder-suicide - that was cold-bloodedly planned for a year in advance.

Deadly Silence is both the story of a sister's determination to find truth and justice, and an inspiring personal journey of healing from severe trauma and loss.

About the author: Jacqueline Connolly was born in rural Ireland and raised as one of three children. She works as a Senior HR Professional. She holds a master's degree in Human Resources Management and, inspired by her own experiences, has conducted valuable research into vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress and burnout for Irish healthcare workers.

She is an advocate for counselling, healing and refusing to let catastrophe and adversity define us as people. As a result of her devastating loss, she is also passionate about raising awareness of domestic violence and the insidious nature of coercive control and other forms of domestic abuse.

She lives with her son in Cavan, Ireland.

About the ghostwriter: Kathryn Rogers has been writing professionally for decades, much of it as a full-time national newspaper journalist and columnist. She has written on every subject imaginable for national newspapers, including the Irish Press, Sunday Press, Irish Independent, Sunday Tribune, Irish Sun and Irish Daily Star newspapers. She has also worked on magazines, periodicals, trade journals and produced annuals for UK publishers.

As a ghostwriter, she has helped bring more than a dozen books to publication. Many of these authors have enjoyed critical and sales success on the official Nielsen bestsellers lists.

As an editor, she has worked on many manuscripts across diverse topics, copying edit material, revising and rewriting where necessary. She also proofreads for grammar, spelling and punctuation. Her job is to ensure that authors can be proud of their work and confident their manuscript is ready for publication. 

Tuesday, 7 October 2025

I Deliver Parcels In Beijing (Non-Fiction) by Hu AnYan


About the book: I Deliver Parcels in Beijing (2025) is an authentic and humorous first person account of one worker’s daily life in the huge system that is the Chinese gig economy. The system could crush you unless you, as the author, have a slightly philosophical look on everyday life. 

In 2023, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing became a literary sensation of the year in China. The story of a worker doing odd jobs in various anonymous mega-cities, Hu AnYan’s voice hit a nerve with a generation of young Chinese who feel at odds with an ever growing pressure to perform and succeed.

Hu started posting essays about his experiences online during COVID lockdowns. His recollection of night shifts in a huge logistics center in the South of China went nights so hot that even drinking three liters of water does not require a toilet break; colleagues going for KTV instead of trying to get a few hours' sleep; where are the affordable rooms with proper air conditioning, and what is the best amount of alcohol in order to sleep but not feel drowsy a few hours later? 

The work is brutal, and there is no real sense of future in sight. But Hu is armed with a deadpan sense of humour and a strong idea of self, he moves on when he feels from logistics in the South to delivering parcels in Beijing, over to other odd jobs, all the while also discovering the power of reading and writing.

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing is a bestseller in China in 2023 with over 160, 000 copies sold, 400,000 ebooks read, and 1,360,000 audio versions downloaded. Also sold for local publications in 15 territories. It will be released on 28 October 2025 and is available for pre-order now. 

The book is a unique first person portrait of a society we never hear from but everyone has opinions about and benefits from. Quietly radical, brimming with humanity and humour, this book asks: what does work really mean? What should it mean? And do any of us really know how to live?

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing is translated from the Mandarin by Jack Hargreaves.

About the author: Hu AnYan was born in Guangzhou, China, in 1979. After graduating from secondary school he joined the workforce, moving between cities and odd jobs to make a living. In 2020, a blog post based on his experience as a delivery driver in Beijing went viral, leading to the publication of his first book, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing (Insight Media, 2023). It has since become a major national bestseller in China and will be translated into fifteen languages.

About the translator: Jack Hargreaves is a Chinese-English translator. He has translated work by such writers as Li Juan, Lu Xiaoyu, Chai Jing, Shen Dacheng, Gu Qian, Wen Zhen and Chen Chuncheng, among others.

Thursday, 2 October 2025

The Next Supper: The End Of Restaurants As We Knew Them, And What Comes After by Corey Mintz


About the book: The Next Supper (2021) is a searing expose of the restaurant industry, and a path to a better, safer, happier meal.

In the years before the pandemic, the restaurant business was booming. Americans spent more than half of their annual food budgets dining out. In a generation, chefs had gone from behind-the-scenes labourers to TV stars. The arrival of Uber Eats, DoorDash, and other meal delivery apps was overtaking home cooking.

Beneath all that growth lurked serious problems. Many of the best restaurants in the world employed unpaid cooks. Meal delivery apps were putting restaurants out of business. And all that dining out meant dramatically less healthy diets. The industry may have been booming, but it also desperately needed to change.

Then, along came COVID-19. From the farm to the street-side patio, from the sweaty kitchen to the swarm of delivery vehicles buzzing about our cities, everything about the restaurant business is changing, for better or worse. 

The Next Supper tells this story and offers clear and essential advice for what and how to eat to ensure the well-being of cooks and waitstaff, not to mention our bodies and the environment. 

The Next Supper reminds us that breaking bread is an essential human activity and charts a path to preserving the joy of eating out in a turbulent era.

About the author: Corey Mintz is a freelance food reporter (New York Times, Globe and Mail, Eater, and others), focusing on the intersection between what we eat with business, politics, farming, ethics, land use, labor (or labour, as it is spelled in Canada), education and culture. He has been a cook and a restaurant critic. For his long-running column Fed, he hosted 192 dinner parties, featuring politicians, refugees, criminals, artists, academics, acupuncturists, high-rise window washers, competitive barbecuers, and one monkey. He is the author of two and a half books including How to Host a Dinner Party. He lives in Winnipeg with his wife, Victoria, and their daughter, Cookie Puss.

Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Blood In The Water: The Untold Story Of A Family Tragedy by Casey Sherman


About the book: A troubled young man, a seven million dollar fortune, and a murder at sea...

When Nathan Carman, a young man with a complicated past, is miraculously rescued from a lifeboat bobbing in the unforgiving North Atlantic, questions swirl about the fate of his mother, who is presumed to have drowned when their fishing boat sank. 

Nathan is in remarkably good shape for being lost at sea for a week, and his account of what exactly happened out there on the waves raises questions from family members and law enforcement.

Nathan's story of a fishing trip gone awry doesn't quite add up, and suspicion mounts. The mysterious murder of Nathan's multi-millionaire grandfather a few years before had made Nathan's mother an extremely wealthy woman. With a seven-million-dollar fortune at stake, did Nathan commit the ultimate betrayal? Or is there more to this tragic tale than meets the eye?

From New York Times bestselling author Casey Sherman comes a gripping contemporary true crime narrative - Blood in the Water (2025) - for everyone who was fascinated by the Murdaugh murders, and for anyone compelled by the intersection between money, power, and family.

In May 2023, federal prosecutors charged Nathan Carman with the murders of his grandfather and his mother, and he died of apparent suicide in prison in June 2023.

About the author: Casey Sherman is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today & Boston Globe Bestselling Author of 17 books including “The Finest Hours” (now a major Walt Disney Studio motion picture starring Chris Pine & Casey Affleck), and “Patriots Day” (now an acclaimed motion picture from CBS Films starring Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Bacon). Sherman’s 2023 true crime bestseller “Helltown,” is now in development as a limited television series for Amazon Studio. Sherman will serve as Executive Producer on the project, which is slated to star Oscar Isaac (“Dune”), with director Edward Berger (Netflix – “All is Quiet on the Western Front”), and produced by Team Downey (Robert Downey, Jr. & Susan Downey - HBO’s “Perry Mason”). 

Sherman’s other books include James Patterson’s “The Last Days of John Lennon,” which spent more than 23 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, “12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady’s Fight for Redemption,” and “Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of The Capture & Killing of America’s Most Wanted Crime Boss. Sherman has appeared on more than 100 television and radio programs and is a contributing writer for TIME Magazine, Esquire, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Boston Magazine and the Boston Herald. 

Sherman is a graduate of Barnstable High School (Cape Cod), Fryeburg Academy (Fryeburg, ME) and Boston University.

Monday, 29 September 2025

Cellar Rat: My Life In The Restaurant Underbelly by Hannah Selinger


About the book: In Cellar Rat (2025), Hannah Selinger chronicles the rise and fall of her career in the restaurant business, beginning with the gritty hometown pub where she fell in love with the industry and ending with her final post serving celebrities in the Hamptons classic Nick & Toni's.

In between recipes, Selinger's emotional journey takes readers through the joys of fine fine dining, the allure and danger of power, and what it takes to walk away from a career you love when it no longer serves you. 

What happens when a career you love does not love you back? 

As Hannah Selinger will tell you, to be a good restaurant employee is to be invisible.

At the height of her career as a server and then sommelier at some of New York's most famed dining institutions, Selinger was the hand that folded your napkin while you were in the bathroom, the employee silently slipping into the night through a side door after serving meals worth more than her rent.

During her tenure, Selinger rubbed shoulders with David Chang, Bobby Flay, Johnny Iuzzini, and countless other food celebrities of the early 2000's.

Her position allowed her access to a life she never expected; the lavish parties, the tasting courses, the wildly expensive wines - the rare world we see romanticized in countless movies and television shows.

But the thing about being invisible is that people forget you are there, and most act differently when they think no one is looking.

About the author: Hannah Selinger is a James Beard Award-nominated lifestyle writer and mother of two based in Boxford, MA. Her print and digital work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, Eater, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and elsewhere. Her 2021 Bon Appétit essay, "In My Childhood Kitchen, I Learned Both Fear and Love," is anthologized in the 2022 Best American Food Writing collection, published by HarperCollins and edited by Sohla El-Waylly.

Friday, 26 September 2025

Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D' by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

About the author: From the elegant to the entitled, from royalty to the financially ruined, everyone who wanted to be seen - or just to gawk - at the hottest restaurants in New York City came to places Michael Cecchi-Azzolina helped run. 

Your Table Is Ready (2022) drops us back in time in the most vibrant city in the world, taking us places we would never have been able to get into on our own: Raouls in Soho with its louche club vibe; Buzzy O’Keefe’s casually chic River Café (the only outer-borough establishment to make the grade), from Keith McNally’s Minetta Tavern to Nolita’s Le Coucou, with its French Country Auberge-meets-winery look and the most exquisite stands of eternally fresh flowers.

From his early career serving stars like Tennessee Williams and Dustin Hoffman at La Rousse right through to the last pre-pandemic full houses at LeCouCou, Cecchi-Azzolina breaks down how restaurants really run (and don’t), and how the economics work for owners and overworked staff alike. 

The professionals who gravitate to the business are a special, tougher breed, practiced in dealing with demanding patrons and with each other, in a distinctive ecosystem that is somewhere between a George Orwell “down and out in….” dungeon and a sleek showman’s smoke-and-mirrors palace.

Like Stanley Tucci’s “Big Night”, Your Table Is Ready (2022) is a history of the era when maitre d’s rather than chefs were the culinary world’s stars. It is a rollicking, raunchy, revelatory memoir. 

About the author: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina has been in the restaurant industry for more than thirty-five years. From his early career at La Rousse, he has gone on to run the front of house at New York's most famous and influential restaurants, including The Water Club, The River Cafe, Raoul's, and Le Coucou. He lives in Manhattan.

Sunday, 21 September 2025

John of the Cross: a Living Flame by Blessed Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus


About the book: “Periods of deChristianisation like the one we are enduring are liable to provoke a reaction by the Spirit, who takes hold of certain souls and breathes into them this thirst and this appetite for perfection ...”

These words of Blessed Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus testify to the pressing need that he felt all his life to spread the spiritual doctrine of the Reformer of Carmel (St John of the Cross). 

His living teaching is rooted in an experiential knowledge of St John of the Cross, constantly enriched by his familiarity with Thérèse of Lisieux, the most authentic disciple of the Doctor of the nights. 

John of the Cross: a Living Flame (2023) brings together the key points in this teaching, which has never had any other purpose than to lead individuals to the perfection of love, in the purest tradition of the Teachers of Carmel.

John of the Cross: a Living Flame is translated from the French by Cyprian Blamires OCDS. 

About the author: Blessed Marie-Eugène of the Child Jesus (1894-1967) – born Henri Grialou – was a French Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Discalced Carmelites of which he was a member since just after his ordination (24 February 1922). Fr Marie-Eugène held several positions of leadership within his Order, and because of his responsibilities in Rome, he travelled extensively visiting the different Carmelite convents and monasteries across the world. He founded the Secular Institute of Notre-Dame de Vie. He is also a noted spiritual author and wrote at great length on the Carmelite Doctors (his main opus: “I Want to See God”). He is considered amongst the most important authors of Spiritual Theology.

Fr. Marie-Eugène’s life was driven by his devotion to Carmelite Spirituality and to the spreading it with great zeal. His motto in life was “Traditus Gratiae Dei” (Surrendered to the Grace of God). He ensured that Carmelite teachings and its Spirituality was promoted amongst the faithful. He died on 27 March 1967. He was beatified on 19 November 2016 in Avignon, France.