The New Testament of Jeremiah: A Novel by

by Richard Webber, Justine Welby (Preface)

Reverend Jeremiah Standish, academic, mentally fragile widower, has had it with Christianity. Two thousand years of telling lies and now he’s going to set the record straight. His friend, Malcolm Gibbon, foul-mouthed and slobbish lover of all that is foreign , wants him to tell it straight. The sensual Head Librarian, Mildred, wants him to return to Mother Church and her bed. And the Bishop wants him to shut up. Jeremiah gives a public lecture that causes international offence. People don’t want to hear that the Levitical priests were wrong to condemn love between men and animals or that the Bible was written by sex-obsessed novelists. The clouds gather and just punishment threatens ... but who will face disaster? Set in Sri Lanka and a village near the English Peak District this wise and humorous tale will appeal to all who have a sense of humor, love the Bible and sympathise with those who doubt.

266 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 30, 2017