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21 July 2006


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Book reviewed in this issue

Knight's tales: beoynd the bluster
God’s War: a new history of the Crusades Free Article
Christopher Tyerman
Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith


Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the medieval Mediterranean world
Stephen O’Shea
Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith


Summer Reading - selection of books from our reviewers
Various
Reviewed by Various


The Dangerous Book for Boys
Conn and Hal Iggulden
Reviewed by John Morrish


Wild Mary: a life of Mary Wesley
Patrick Marnham
Reviewed by Mary Emma Baxter


Previous weeks reviews

Philosopher,Carmelite and Saint
Edith Stein: a philosophical prologue Free Article
Alasdair MacIntyre
Reviewed by John Cottingham


The Year of Henry James: the story of a novel
David Lodge
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh


Pascal’s Fire: scientific faith and religious understanding
Keith Ward
Reviewed by John Polkinghorne


Chew on This
Eric Schlosser
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh


The Wal-Mart Effect
Charles Fishman
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh


Bad Food Britain: how a nation ruined its appetite
Joanna Blythman
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh


The Savvy Shopper
Rose Prince
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh


The Story of You
Julie Myerson
Reviewed by Kathy Watson


Winifred Wagner: a life at the heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth
Brigitte Hamann
Reviewed by John Amis

Prayers of a civilised rationalist
What I believe Free Article
Anthony kenny
Reviewed by Eamon Duffy


Walled About With God: the history and spirituality of enclosure for cloistered nuns
trans. and ed. David Hayes OSB
Reviewed by Gillian Leslie


Arabs
Mark Allen
Reviewed by Michael Fitzgerald


The Book of Dave
Will Self
Reviewed by Michael Holland


Trains and Buttered Toast: selected radio talks
John Betjeman
Reviewed by Christopher Howse


The Tricky Part: one boy’s fall from trespass into grace
Martin Moran
Reviewed by David McLaurin


St William of York
Christopher Norton
Reviewed by David McLaurin


Blindness and the Visionary: the life and work of John Wilson
John Coles
Reviewed by David McLaurin


The First Tourist: travels in search of St Helena
Jonathan Hibbs
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Wrestling with an unseen God
The Man Who Went Into the West: the life of R.S. Thomas Free Article
Byron Rogers
Reviewed by Christopher Howse


Rulers and Victims: the Russians in the Soviet Union
Geoffrey Hosking
Reviewed by Konstantin Eggert


A Loeb Classical Library Reader

Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune


Ordinary Heroes
Scott Turow
Reviewed by Michael McHale


Dusty Warriors: modern soldiers at war
Richard Holmes
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards


Naples: what most tourists never see

Reviewed by Isobel Alexander


Tehran Blues
Kaveh Basmenji
Reviewed by Isobel Alexander


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