Our Churches and Chapels

Preston’s parks have had their beauties sung, its river praised and even its railway station admired. But its churches and chapels? Left out in the cold.

In late nineteenth-century Preston, Atticus turns to the town’s neglected places of worship—and to the parsons, priests and congregations who give them their character. His opening is brisk, funny and pointed: he questions whether modern clergy have lost the geniality of their predecessors, and eyes the way money can win the warmest welcome while poverty gets the least comfortable pew. Promising fair play across denominations, he begins with the Parish Church, where worship and social life meet under his sharp gaze. What will Preston’s churches reveal about the people who fill them—and those who lead them?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.