New Titles Now Available

The SSM Press publishes work by or about Herbert Kelly, the Society of the Sacred Mission, and related topics. These books are available online from Amazon and other retailers, or can be ordered from your local bookshop. Copies are also available in-person at the Priory, together with a selection of other publications.

The Letters of Herbert Kelly and Dorothy L. Sayers​

In 1937 Herbert Kelly, founder of SSM, and the celebrated novelist and playwright Dorothy L. Sayers, began a fascinating correpsondence that would continue for the next ten years. This volume, with an informative introduction by Scholastica Jacob, Director of the Herbert Kelly Institute publishes the full correspondence for the first time.

You can listen to Scholastica discussing the work on the ‘Holy C of E’ podcast here.

One Thing at a Time, Johnny​

Jonathan Ewer SSM, former Provincial of SSM (and sometime Prior of St Antony's) has now published his memoirs. Growing up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, he eventually found his way to the Society of the Sacred Mission in South Australia. As a member of the order he has been sent to do a variety of things in Australia and the UK; each one, it seems, more exciting than the one before. He now lives in retirement near the Cathedral and Abbey of St Albans.

The SSM Press

During the first half of the twentieth century, the SSM Press published a number of pamphlets and journals, including those written by Kelly, as well as other material. The closure of Kelham and declining numbers made it hard to sustain a traditional printing press. However, recent advances in digital printing technology have enabled a revival of the SSM Press as a publishing enterprise.

We have already published a number of liturgical resources for use in the chapel, including a Stations of the Cross booklet, and a service book for Holy Week and Easter. 

As part of the development of the Institute project, in 2024 we published The Letters of Herbert Kelly SSM and Dorothy L. Sayers, in order to showcase just some of the riches contained within the SSM archives.
 
Future projects include a definitive history of Kelham, to be written by Jeremy Bonner, recently commisioned as our first ‘Scholar in Residence’, and a collection of Kelly’s writings – not least those pamphlets published by the original SSM Press.