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25 August 2006


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Lament for a vanished world
Seminary Boy Free Article
John Cornwell
Reviewed by Eamon Duffy


Colour Bar: the triumph of Seretse Khama and his nation
Susan Williams
Reviewed by Piers McGrandle


Terrorist
John Updike
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh


The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, Edmund Weiner
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards


New Selected Poems
Vernon Watkins
Reviewed by Jeremy Hooker


Previous weeks reviews

Cabin boy who became a bishop
William Bernard Ullathorne 1806-1889: a different kind of monk Free Article
Judith Champ
Reviewed by Aidan Bellenger


Robert Southey: entire man of letters
W.A. Speck
Reviewed by P.J. Kavanagh


The Gardens of the Dead
William Broderick
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune


The Pursuit of Happiness: a historyfrom the Greeks to the present
Darrin McMahon
Reviewed by Selina O\'Grady


The Spirit of the Child
David Hay
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs


Witnesses of War
Nicholas Stargardt
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs


Shattered Lives
Camila Batmanghelidjh
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs


God\'s Apology
Olivia Fane
Reviewed by William Charlton

Space for dissent - but at a price
Charitable Hatred: tolerance and intolerance in England, 1500-1700 Free Article
Alexandra Walsham
Reviewed by Christopher Haigh


A Very British Strike: 3 May to 12 May 1926
Anne Perkins
Reviewed by Francis Beckett


The Emperor’s Children
Claire Messud
Reviewed by Kathy Watson


The Story of Childhood: growing up in modern Britain
Libby Brooks
Reviewed by Mary Kenny


The Perfect Summer: dancing into shadow in 1911
Juliet Nicolson
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge


Lost Voices of the Edwardians
ed. Max Arthur
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge

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

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


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