Profile: Peter Stockton

"Something special about this country? Gaza beach, 1985. An Israeli policeman is looking at my passport. It has several Israeli visas - 1981, '82 and '83 - and here I am again. Yes! I started to write poetry on my second day here. It's like loads of place....

The book considers the major figures in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths, from Adam through Abraham and Moses to Jesus and Muhammad, trying to find a way of understanding their many paradoxes. These include the three faiths/one God dilemma; Jews as....