Easter confronts us with a historical event set in time. We are faced with a story of an empty tomb, of a small group of men and women who were at one stage hiding for their lives and at the next were brave enough to face the full judicial persecution of the Roman Empire and proclaim their belief in a risen Christ.

A. N. Wilson

Andrew Norman Wilson (born 27 October 1950), is an English writer, known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular and cultural history. After ten years as a teacher (first as a schoolmaster at Merchant Taylors, later teaching medieval literature at New College and St Hugh's Colleges, Oxford) he became a journalist and writer. He was Literary Editor of both The Spectator and the Evening Standard and contributed to the Daily Mail, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman and The Observer

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