WHERE TO BUY QUAKER BOOKS

Quaker books published within Australia

Friends Booksales offers a mail order service for books published by Quakers in Australia, that is, Australia Yearly Meeting. 

To contact Friends Booksales —

By post    PO Box 181 Glen Osmond SA Australia 5064         
By email  sales[at]quakers.org.au

 To download Friends Booksales Catalogue as a pdf document click here, or browse the list below:

Friends in deed

The story of Quaker Service Australia and the many people and places involve in its work throughout the world over its 50 year history.

Written by Heather Saville.

$24.95

To order, contact Friends Booksales

this we can say

An Australian Quaker faith and practice, written over 10 years by contemporary Australian Quakers expressing their faith in text, poetry, drawings and song.

$30.00 soft cover
$40.00 hard cover
$40.00 large print

To order, contact Friends Booksales.

Read more about this we can say.

Peace Comes Walking: The life of Donald Groom, Quaker peace worker
by Victoria Rigney

This story of passionate idealism, spiritual strength and unexpected tragedy spans the peace movements of the twentieth century. Donald Groom was born into a family of conscientious objectors during World War I and worked in interesting places at extraordinary times: Spain during the civil war, India before and after Partition, and Australia during the Vietnam War.

To order write to Friends Booksales, PO Box 181, Glen Osmond SA 5064 or email

Backhouse and Walker by William Oats

This covers the nine years and five months during which James Backhouse and George Washington Walker travelled in Australia, at times walking 25 to 30 miles a day, observing white settlers' relations with the Aboriginal peoples, and the way the British treated their prisoners in the penal settlements.

Blubber Head Press, 1981.

Price: AU$10.00 plus postage and packaging

To order write to Friends Booksales, PO Box 181, Glen Osmond SA 5064 or email

Quaker Ways edited by Elizabeth Stevenson

Quaker Ways is a publication addressed especially to young people in the 12 to 16 age group and includes a wide range of articles on Friends' history, faith, experience and practice.

Price: AU$12.00 plus postage and packaging

To order write to Friends Booksales, PO Box 181, Glen Osmond SA 5064 or email

Living the Way: Quaker Spirituality and Community 
by Ursula Jane (Janie) O'Shea

Twenty-eighth Backhouse Lecture1993

To order write to Friends Booksales, PO Box 181, Glen Osmond SA 5064 or email

The Backhouse Lectures are delivered annually at the Yearly Meeting gathering in January. They cover a wide range of aspects of Quaker life and seek to deeply question how we can grow spiritually. For more information and a full list of the Backhouse Lectures, click here.

Print and audio copies are available.

To order write to Friends Booksales, PO Box 181, Glen Osmond SA 5064 or email

Handbook of Practice and Procedure, 2005 edition

The fifth edition of the Handbook of Practice and Procedure, with the amendments to July 2004, was accepted at Yearly Meeting 2005. This is available in portable document format (pdf) on this website, or as a printed document from Friends Booksales.

Price: AU $6.50.

To order write to Friends Booksales, PO Box 181, Glen Osmond SA 5064 or email

Friends Booksales Complete catalogue

• Footprints and Echoes(2008) Young Friends AU $10
• This We Can Say - Large Print AU $40
• This We Can Say - Hard Cover AU $40
• This We Can Say - Soft Cover AU $30
• Quakerism - a Mature Religion for Today David Hodgkin AU $5
• As the Seed Grows Charles Stevenson AU $6.50
• Quaker Ways Elizabeth Stevenson AU $6.50
• Choose your Dilemma William Oats AU $6.50
• Peace Comes Walking Victoria Rigney AU $27.50
• BL90 Quakers in Politics Jones & Vallentine AU $5
• BL93 Living the Way - Quaker Spirituality and Community Janey O'Shea AU $5
• BL94 As the Mirror Burns Di Bretherton AU $5
• BL95 Emerging currents in the Asia-Pacific Anderton & Bird AU $5
• BL96 Our Children: Our Partners - Social Action in the 21st Cent.... Elise Boulding AU $5
• BL98 Embraced by Other Selves : Enriching Personal Nature... Charles Stevenson AU $5
• BL99 Myth and Stories: Truth and Lies Norman Talbot AU $5
• BL00 To Learn a New Song: Real Reconciliation with the Earth... Susannah Brindle AU $5
• BL01 Reconciling Opposites: Peacemaking in South Africa H. van der Merwe AU $5
• BL02 To Do Justly and to Love Mercy: Quaker Service Mark Deasey AU $5
• BL03 Respecting the Rights of Children and Young People.... Helen Bayes AU $5
• BL04 Growing Fruitful Friendship; A Garden Walk Ute Caspers AU $5
• BL05 Peace is a Struggle David Johnson AU $5
• BL06 One Heart and a Wrong Spirit:.Friends and Colonial Racism Polly Walker AU $5
• BL07 Support for our true selves - Nurturing the space ..leadings.. Jenny Spinks 1 AU $5
• BL08 Faith Hope and Doubt – in Times of Uncertainty George Ellis AU $11
• BL 2005 CD David Johnson AU $15
• BL 2006 CD Jenny Spinks AU $15
• Introducing Quakerism CD David&Trish Johnson AU $15

Payment may be made by cheque payable to Religious Society of Friends or by Post Office Order.
Bank transfer details will be included with the invoice
Credit card facilities are available to overseas buyers

Buying Quaker Books published overseas

Buying books from overseas is cheapest from the US and more expensive from the UK, and as well, postal orders in US dollars cost much less than getting a bank cheque for UK pounds. A web search for the title that you are seeking will generally show where they are available, and the price. Often, Quaker books are available from Amazons, either new or second hand.

Some overseas Quaker bookstores

Quaker Books of FGC

On-line bookstore featuring books published by the Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, and other materials of interest to Quakers. Browse their cataloge at www.quakerbooks.org

Britain Yearly Meeting Publications

Britain Yearly Meeting Publications are being printed by and can be ordered from

Methodist Publishing House

Postal address: 4 John Wesley Road, Werrington, Peterborough, PE4 6ZP. UK.
Telephone: 01733 325002  
Fax: 01733 384184 
http://www.mph.org.uk/

OR YOU CAN STILL ORDER FROM

The Quaker Book Centre,

Postal address:  Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ
Telephone:  020 7663 1030 

Fax: 020 7663 1001
Web-site http://www.quaker.org.uk/templates/internal.asp?nodeid=89733
E-mail: bookshop@quaker.org.uk
The red Britain Yearly Meeting Quaker Faith and Practice,  Advices and Queries, and other Quaker literature can be ordered directly from the Quaker Book Centre in London which will fill orders including both BYM and non-BYM titles. You can browse the book catalogues on the website for Friends Book Centre.

Pendle Hill Publications

Pendle Hill, a Publications can be accessed at  http://www.pendlehill.org/bookstore/books.php
Are you curious about Quaker history, education, spiritual life or social witness? Pendle Hill Publications offers thirty in-print titles, all available from the Pendle Hill Bookstore.

Authors and editors include Friends such as Elise Boulding, Chuck Fager, Margaret Hope Bacon, Doug Gwyn, Larry Ingle, Samuel Bownas, Wilmer Cooper, and many more. Subjects include:
•    Peace
•    Poetry
•    Quaker Faith & Practice
•    Quaker Biography, History and Reflection
•    Quaker Education
•    Religion
•    Scripture

Happy Reading!
Topsy and David Evans
Friends Book Sales