Peter Stanford is a writer, broadcaster and biographer, whose books include biographies of Lord Longford, C Day-Lewis, and the Devil and the travelogue, The Extra Mile. A former editor of the Catholic Herald, he writes for The Daily Telegraph, The Independent on Sunday and The Observer and has a regular column in The Tablet. www.peterstanford.co.uk

'Stanford's sometimes humorous account of these evocative places, and of the present-day pilgrims who visit them, comprises an intriguing investigation of what faith might mean in our apparently secular age.

• Introduction \ 1. Stonehenge \ 2. Bardsey Island \ 3. The Wells of Derbyshire \ 4. Walsingham \ 5. Holywell \ 6. Iona \ 7. Lindisfarne \ 8. Glastonbury \ Acknowledgments