Reviewed by Peter Allott Gracewing, 520pp, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50            Tel 01420 592974Although Vincent Nichols cannot have been pleased by the long wait for his appointment as a cardinal (almost five years), he should spare a thought for his sometime predecessor at Westminster, Francis Bourne, who had to wait almost 12 years before being similarly honoured. The unwelcome public speculation and personal distress which the supposed delay caused Francis Bourne is one of the many episodes covered in this, the first full-length biography in almost 70 years. This neglect of the longest-serving and youngest Archbishop of Westminster is both surprising and yet entirely understandable: it has probably made for a mo