Book reviewed in this issue

Knight's tales: beoynd the bluster
God’s War: a new history of the Crusades
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
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
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
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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