Books
Books for use with the course:
- Nicky Gumbel, Questions of Life (Kingsway Publications 2003). ISBN 1-84291-164-3
- Nicky Gumbel, Searching Issues (Kingsway Publications 2001). ISBN 0-85476-739-8
- The Alpha Manual (Alpha International Publications 2005). ISBN 1-904074-23-5
Books about the course:
- Andrew Brookes (Editor), The Alpha Phenomenon (Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, 2007). ISBN 978-0-85169-331-6
- Stephen J. Hunt, The Alpha Enterprise: Evangelism in a Post-Christian Era (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2004) ISBN 978-0-7546-5036-2
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