Book reviewed in this issue

Lament for a vanished world
Seminary Boy
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
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
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
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
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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