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4 August 2006


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Ironies at the heart of Islam
The Caged Virgin: a Muslim woman’s cry for reason Free Article
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Reviewed by Isabella Thomas


Only Half of Me: being a Muslim in Britain
Rageh Omaar
Reviewed by Isabella Thomas


The Watkin Path: an approach to belief
Magdalen Goffin
Reviewed by Christopher Howse


Blessed Among All Women: women saints, prophets and witnesses for our time
Robert Ellsberg
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh


Lachlan’s War
Michael Cannon
Reviewed by Jeremy Worman


Creators: from Chaucer to Walt Disney
Paul Johnson
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards


Previous weeks reviews

Good luck: a virtue of an emperor
Caesar: the life of a colossus Free Article
Adrian Goldsworthy
Reviewed by Noonie Minogue


Temptations of the West: how to be modern in India, Pakistan and beyond
Pankaj Mishra
Reviewed by David Goodall


William Kent: architect, designer, opportunist
Timothy Mowl
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin


Tito
Neil Barnett
Reviewed by John Phillips


First Overland: London–Singapore by Land Rover
Tim Slessor
Reviewed by Shelby Tucker


Be Near Me
Andrew O’Hagan
Reviewed by David McLaurin


The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the fate of God in the modern world
Matthew Stewart
Reviewed by Rosalie Osmond


Tanglewreck
Jeanette Winterson
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

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

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


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