The top 10 bestselling children’s books:
1. GNB Rainbow Bible: With beautiful line drawings throughout, quick search lists and key cross-references, this provides a readable authoritative Bible text.
2. CEV Youth Bible: Developed with help from key Christian organisations including Soul Survivor, Christians in Sport, Tearfund and Wycliffe, it explains history, explores the big ideas and unpacks today's issues.
3. Beginner's Bible: recommended for under 8s, retells 95 Bible stories illustrated with colourful and humorous pictures.
4. NIV adventure Bible: For 7-11 year olds contains numerous special features including action panels (things to do and make), Bible facts, words to remember and details of what life was like in Bible times.
5. Children's guide to the Bible: leads you through the books from beginning to end and explains God's great plan for the world, helped along the way by signposts.
6. Stories Jesus Told: illustrated by Mick Inkpan, contains eight of Jesus' best-loved stories, simply told and accompanied by fantastic illustrations.
7. Lion First Bible: long a children's favourite, contains sixty Bible stories with an important message, specially chosen for young children.
8. Lion Bible: Everlasting Stories is a beautiful hard-back book illustrated throughout to enhance the drama and the emotion of the text.
9. My Very First Prayers: contains delightful prayers about all the things in a child's world.
10. Who left Grandad at the chip shop? A collection of verse for children. Written with humour, insight and imagination, this book covers topics from skirting boards to goldfish.
The top 10 bestselling adult books:
1. The Purpose Driven Life: The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller, Rick Warren’s book is a must-read. Studied in churches throughout the world, this book will help you to understand why you are alive.
2. Battlefield of the mind: Joyce Meyer’s powerful book addresses the worries, doubts, confusion, depression, anger and other negative thoughts that plague so many of us and how to overcome these damaging thought patterns.
3. Light Force: Brother Andrew, author of God’s Smuggler and Al Janssen of Open Doors International bring the impassioned message that there is hope for the Middle East.
4. Street Bible: ‘For those who’ve never read the Bible, and for those who’ve read it too much’, Rob Lacey’s Street Bible, is an overview of the basic story of God and his people, told by a 21st-century storyteller.
5. Heavenly Man: an inspirational and heroic story of a radical Christian, Brother Yun, in the house churches of China.
6. If You Want to Walk on Water..: from the teaching pastor at Willow Creek, John Ortberg, a book about discovering your potential, deepening your character, your trust in God and stepping outside the comfort zone
7. Power of a Praying Woman: by Stormie Omartian highlights the importance not only of praying for your spouse, children, friends, family but also praying for yourself.
8. My Story – Selwyn Hughes traces his life from a Welsh mining village through his experiences of the past 50 years as a pastor, evangelist and pioneer in the field of Christian counselling training, interspersed with personal accounts of his battle with cancer, loss of family members and how throughout his life God’s love, grace and strength have sustained him.
9. Case for Faith: Legally trained investigative reporter, Lee Strobel, follows up his bestselling The Case for Christ and focuses on the concerns of many about faith in God.
10. The life you've always wanted: by John Ortberg, a challenge to be transformed not only in our spiritual lives, but our ordinary, everyday lives.
