Catalog
New!
They Met Robin Hood & Robin Hood to the Rescue! by Agnes Blundell. December 2025.
Osmund unhooked his bugle from his belt, but before he could summon up enough breath to blow it, a strange-looking man came leaping out of the wood.
“Who dare stay my hounds? Who dare interfere with my quarry?” he shouted in a fury, and ran down upon the boy, his face scarlet with passion and a great knife gleaming in his hand.
A Crusader’s son saves an outlaw hunter’s dog and finds himself a friend of Robin Hood’s band. But how can mere forest outlaws save his family from the greedy favorites of Prince John? And the wild Welsh border is all too near. . . .
[fiction — all ages]
Read first chapter of They Met Robin Hood & Robin Hood to the Rescue! (pdf)
Order on Amazon.com – $17.00, eligible for Prime shipping
Order from St. Aidan Press – $16.00 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $17.12 + shipping
Each book is also available separately:
They Met Robin Hood. April 2024.
Read chapter one of They Met Robin Hood (pdf)
Order from St. Aidan Press – $13.50 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $15.10 + shipping
Order on Amazon.com – $19.56 + shipping
Robin Hood to the Rescue! by Agnes Blundell. December 2024.
Osmund’s father has gone to France again with Cœur de Lion, leaving his family at home in their manor. But when Osmund’s brother and sister are kidnapped, who can help them but their old friend Robin Hood?
“The fascination of the famous outlaw and his merry men never dies, and, as she has already shown in They Met Robin Hood, Miss Blundell, with her genius for historical fiction, is the most fitting writer to tell us more about those exciting bowmen. This new story is as excellent and enthralling as its predecessor.”—from the 1939 dust jacket.
[fiction — all ages]
Read first chapter of Robin Hood to the Rescue! (pdf)
Order from St. Aidan Press – $10.00 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $10.07 + shipping
Order on Amazon.com – $15.19 + shipping
Mangled Hands by Neil Boyton, S.J. October 2024.
Tarcisius Tandihetsi, the chief’s son, has seen wonderful things in the Great Villages of the French and is going home. But the canoes are ambushed by the Iroquois, and he will soon learn what it is to be a captive alone among pagans. If only he could escape and find his Blackrobe, Father Isaac Jogues!
“A thrilling story of adventure and heroism. . . . But more than that, there is placed before the reader a high ideal of courage and manly holiness which raises the story high above the level of the ordinary boy’s book.”—America
[fiction — all ages]
Read first chapter of Mangled Hands (pdf)
Order from St. Aidan Press – $13.00 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $14.09 + shipping
Order on Amazon.com – $20.47 + shipping
The Coming of the Monster by Owen Francis Dudley. October 2024.
“Because the Devil laughs—we will have civilised Bolshevism for civilised people.”
The Masterful Monk returns to England to fight against the Bolshevik cause, to find beautiful, idealistic Verna Wray torn between her family’s wealth and her French Catholic suitor. But how much suffering is Red hate still to cause them all?
[fiction — adults and teens]
Read first chapter of The Coming of the Monster (pdf)
Order from St. Aidan Press – $13.50 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $15.10 + shipping
Order on Amazon.com – currently unavailable
The American Heresy by Christopher Hollis. September 2024.
The Jeffersonian state, this book argues, which came to birth in the War of Independence, perished in the Civil War. . . . The root of the change is to be found in the destruction of the State unit. And, as a result of that destruction, power has largely shifted away from its nominal holders and passed into that of wealth. The United States are today a plutocracy . . . content, and even anxious, to allow the rich to order its life to the smallest detail.
The history of Jeffersonian America and of its downfall is told here in the lives of four famous statesmen: Thomas Jefferson, John C. Calhoun, Abraham Lincoln, and Woodrow Wilson.
[nonfiction — history & biography]
Read chapter one of The American Heresy (pdf)
Order on Amazon.com – $18.00, eligible for Prime shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $18.12 + shipping
Order from St. Aidan Press – $16.00 + shipping
Three Religious Rebels by M. Raymond, O.C.S.O. July 2024.
There must be men who give themselves to God, because there is a God who gave Himself to man.
This is the story of three such men—St. Robert of Molesme, St. Alberic, and St. Stephen Harding.
[fiction — all ages]
Read chapter one of Three Religious Rebels (pdf)
Order on Amazon.com – $17.00, eligible for Prime shipping
Order from St. Aidan Press – $15.00 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $17.12 + shipping
The Anchorhold by Enid Dinnis. 2014, edited June 2024.
Editha de Beauville had all that the world could offer: wealth, wit, and beauty. Yet a chaplain’s sermon drove her to give up all this, and enter the religious life. But could a proud, strong-willed noblewoman accept and embrace the poverty and self-abnegation of the religious life, particularly that of full seclusion in an anchorhold? A difficult path lay before Editha. Read on to learn how she fared, and how her life affected those around her, including Sir Aleric, her erstwhile suitor, now a crusader knight; Fr. Nicholas, a young priest who was quite bright, and thought so too; and Fiddlemee, the witty yet wise court jester whose past held a surprising secret.
[fiction — adults and teens]
Read chapter one of The Anchorhold (pdf)
Order on Amazon.com – $13.83 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $14.09 + shipping
Order from St. Aidan Press – $13.00 + shipping
Order on Barnes and Noble.com – $18.21
Order from Mary Immaculate Queen Center – currently unavailable
The Road to Somewhere by Enid Dinnis. March 2024.
Read prologue of The Road to Somewhere (pdf)
Order from St. Aidan Press – $10.00 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $10.07 + shipping
Order on Amazon.com – $18.79, free shipping
The Red Inn of Saint Lyphar by Anna T. Sadlier. January 2024.
Read chapter one of The Red Inn of Saint Lyphar (pdf)
Order on Amazon.com – $8.74, eligible for Prime shipping
Order from St. Aidan Press – $12.00 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $13.09 + shipping
Redrobes by Rev. Fr. Neil Boyton, SJ. December 2023.
Read chapter one of Redrobes (pdf)
Order on Amazon.com – $17.00, eligible for Prime shipping
Order from St. Aidan Press – $15.50 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $17.12 + shipping
Dominican Saints by the Novices of the Dominican House of Studies. December 2023.
“Among the many exponents of the ideals of the Order of Saint Dominic, the fourteen canonized saints stand out pre-eminently. It is the purpose of this book to outline briefly the lives of these fourteen saints, and to indicate where further information regarding them may be obtained. The writers have drawn their material from scattered but authentic sources in the hope of showing how the spirit of Saint Dominic was, humanly speaking, the mainspring of the activities of these exponents, the guiding principle in the development of their characters, and the lodestar of their lives.”
Here are related the astonishing lives of fourteen saints of the Dominican Order, including St. Dominic, St. Catherine of Siena, Pope St. Pius V, St. Rose of Lima, St. Vincent Ferrer, and more. An encyclical on the Dominican Order by Pope Benedict XV and a list of all the Dominican Saints and Blesseds (as of 1921) complete this wonderful introduction to the “Dogs of the Lord.”
[nonfiction]
Read the introduction of Dominican Saints (pdf)
Order on Amazon.com – $19.00, eligible for Prime shipping
Order from St. Aidan Press – $17.00 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $19.13 + shipping
Order on Barnes and Noble.com – $19.00, currently unavailable
The Masterful Monk by Owen Francis Dudley. November 2023.
“‘Passion for freedom,’ ‘experience,’ ‘life.’ There’s nothing original in it. It’s merely the modern method of excusing self-seeking.”
Brother Anselm comes back to England to counter the Atheist’s efforts to destroy the influence of Catholic morals. Between his lectures he is drawn into a struggle for the soul of Beauty Dethier, who is Catholic but fascinated by the “freedom” of the world and the Atheist. It will take more than argument to save her from disaster.
[fiction — adults and teens]
Read chapter one of The Masterful Monk (pdf)
Order on Amazon.com – $18.00, eligible for Prime shipping
Order from St. Aidan Press – $16.00 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $18.12 + shipping
The Story of the War in La Vendée and the Little Chouannerie by George J. Hill. October 2023.
The brave French Catholics of the Vendée and neighboring provinces rose up in arms when the revolutionary government replaced their priests with clergy who had renounced the Pope. Though they lacked money, allies, and were divided by disputes, they did not cease to fight until they had secured the open practice of their Faith. Here is the story of their devotion and courage against the advocates of liberty, equality, fraternity, and death.
[nonfiction — history]
Order on Amazon.com – $18.00, eligible for Prime shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $18.12 + shipping
Order from St. Aidan Press – $16.00 + shipping
Will Men Be Like Gods? and The Shadow on the Earth by Owen Francis Dudley. September 2023.
“Men, in their pursuit of happiness, are in danger of staking their all upon the greatest hoax ever foisted on humanity. This book has been written to expose the hoax together with the follies and fallacies of the hoaxers. In place of Utopian dreams the real solution of the problem of human happiness is offered.”—from the cover of Will Men Be Like Gods, 1949 edition.
Father Dudley’s first two books on human happiness are published together here—his rare collection of essays together with a novel which illustrates the essays and introduces his most famous character, the Masterful Monk.
Read chapter one of Will Men Be Like Gods? (pdf)
Order from St. Aidan Press – $13.00 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $15.10 + shipping
Order on Amazon.com – $19.56 + shipping
Candlelight Attic and Odd Job’s by Cecily Hallack. July 2023.
“I am continually hearing stories—exquisite ones—which would be proof enough to any soul that God is an Infinitely Understanding Person. But usually for the very reason of their nature, they are private—keepsakes between the soul and God.”
Here are seven true stories in honour of the Seven Joys of Our Blessed Lady, and ten more invented ones about the delightful Barnabas Job, to make a comfortable book for those who are afraid of the dark.
Read chapter one of Candlelight Attic and Odd Job’s (pdf)
Order from St. Aidan Press – $13.00 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $14.09 + shipping
Order on Amazon.com – $20.63, free shipping
Catholicism and Scotland by Compton Mackenzie. March 2023.
Much has been written about the desperate fight that English Catholics waged to keep the Faith, but Scotland’s Catholic history is little known. Have you ever heard of David Beaton, Cardinal Archbishop of St. Andrews, and his struggles? Or of Fr. Ninian Winzet, who boldly challenged Calvinist champion John Knox to a public debate? Read this book and find out about the Scots who sought to defend their country and their Faith from the onslaught of Protestantism.
[nonfiction — history]
Read chapter one of Catholicism and Scotland (pdf)
Order from St. Aidan Press – $11.00 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $12.08 + shipping
Order on Amazon.com – $18.48, free shipping
The Queen’s Tragedy by Robert Hugh Benson. February 2023.
“Upon the publication of former books of mine several kindly critics remarked that the reign of Mary Tudor told a very different story with regard to the Catholic character. It is that story which I am now attempting to set forth as honestly as I can.”
[fiction — adults and teens]
Read chapter one of The Queen’s Tragedy (pdf)
Order on Amazon.com – $19.00, eligible for Prime shipping
Order from St. Aidan Press – $16.50 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $19.13 + shipping
The Shepherd of Weepingwold by Enid Dinnis. June 2017, edited January 2023.
The church at Weepingwold has lain abandoned for years, but change is in the wind. The Luffkyns, former peasants who have made their fortune, have purchased the manor house from the noble but impoverished de Lessels. Humble Brother Kit from nearby Bycross Priory soon finds himself plucked from the cloister and made the parson of Weepingwold. Is he up to the task? And is there really a witch in the parish?
Meanwhile, young Petronilla, heiress to the de Lessels family, hopes to regain possession of the manor she considers rightfully hers. Her guardian, none other than Robert Luffkyn himself, has other ideas; he places her in the care of the Abbess of Gracerood, with the admonition that she is to become a nun. Will she?
[fiction — adults and teens]
Read chapter one of The Shepherd of Weepingwold (pdf)
Order from St. Aidan Press – $13.00 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $14.09 + shipping
Order on Amazon.com – $18.40 + shipping
The Net by Agnes Blundell. June 2022.
“Roger felt a freezing dew break out upon his forehead. The net was over him it seemed; in vain he told himself that he could establish his identity. His head was worth forty pounds to the vile creatures at the stair foot, and once in their clutches who knew if he could ever communicate with his friends? . . . Gaolers and pursuivants alike fattened on the traffic in human life and divided the spoils. Judges were as careless as callous.”
Young Roger Dicconson returns from his education abroad to start a new life in his native country. He finds a world of suspicion, uneasy under a usurping king, where justice is bought and sold and Catholics especially live in the shadow of the net. He wins through his first perils and finds new friends, but soon his brother and neighbors are thrown in prison, in danger of their lives. He faces a desperate venture: he may be able to expose the plot against them—but if he cannot save them, he will share their fate.
[fiction — adults and teens]
Read chapter one of The Net (pdf)
Order on Amazon.com – $16.00, eligible for Prime shipping
Order from St. Aidan Press – $14.50 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $16.10 + shipping
Con of Misty Mountain by Mary Waggaman.
“It had been a long night for Con. Just what had happened to him he was at first too dazed to know. Dennis had flung him into the smoking-room with no very gentle hand, turned the key and left him to himself. And, sinking down dully upon a rug that felt very soft and warm after the hard flight over the mountain, Con was glad to rest his bruised, aching limbs, his dizzy head, without any thought of what was to come upon him next.”
[fiction — children]
Read chapter one of Con of Misty Mountain (pdf)
Order from Mary Immaculate Queen Center – $14.00
Order from St. Aidan Press – $14.00 + shipping
Order on Alibris.com – $14.09 + shipping
Order on Amazon.com – $20.63, free shipping
The Happiness of Father Happé by Cecily Hallack.
Shingle Bay did not know what to make of Fr. Savinius Happé. He was a cheerful, rotund Franciscan, a famous author of books on everything from Etruscan civilization to Alpine meadows to beetles, and someone who had never quite mastered the English language. His jovial demeanor concealed a wisdom that alternately bewildered, astonished, but ultimately won over the people of Shingle Bay. [fiction — adults, teens and children]
Read chapter one of The Happiness of Father Happé (pdf)
Order from St. Aidan Press – $10.00 + shipping
Order on Alibis.com – $10.07 + shipping
Order on Amazon.com – $13.77 + shipping
Order from Mary Immaculate Queen Center – currently unavailable
Scouting for Secret Service, by Rev. Fr. Bernard F. J. Dooley.
Frank and George are going to spend their summer vacation in the Adirondacks, thanks to Frank’s uncle Ed. But once they get there, they realize something fishy is going on. Can they trust Pete, their Indian guide, or is he mixed up in it too? And is Frank’s mysterious uncle really behind it all?
[fiction, boys]
Read chapter one of Scouting for Secret Service (pdf)
Order from St. Aidan Press – $14.00 + shipping
Order from Alibris.com – $14.09 + shipping
Order on Amazon.com – $20.63, free shipping
Order from Mary Immaculate Queen Center – currently unavailable
Cobra Island, by Rev. Fr. Neil Boyton, SJ.
Scout Francis X. Gaze is a long way from Brooklyn. While he and his father are traveling to India during the First World War, their ship is attacked and sunk by a German raider. Frank and a few shipmates make it ashore to a deserted island—Cobra Island. But our scout isn’t out of danger yet…
[fiction, boys]
Read chapter one of Cobra Island (pdf)
Order from publisher – $8.95 + shipping
Order from Mary Immaculate Queen Center – currently unavailable
St. Aidan Press 