God's Own County

A tube station, a safari park and a shanty town appear alongside Norfolk landmarks in a new book by the Bishop of Norwich, writes ROWAN MANTELL

- Rowan Mantell

FORTY inspiring places feature in a new book by the Bishop of Norwich, written to be read over the 40 days of Lent. The Rt Rev Graham James has picked places ranging from a motor museum to Jerusalem, Devil’s Island in French Guiana and a sports pitch in Cornwall called Hell Fire Corner,

In A Place for God Bishop Graham writes about what each of the 40 places has meant to him. Although the book roams the world, highlighting places he has visited, it is not a not a travel guide; and although bible stories are mentioned it is not a book of religious readings. Instead it is an invitation to travel, for 40 days, through 40 locations in a journey of faith.

“I was tempted to call this book Location, Location, Vocation because my sense of vocation, both as a Christian and as a priest, has been related more to a place than I have sometimes been willing to admit,” said Bishop Graham.