Book reviewed in this issue
Love and Louis XIV: the women in the life of the Sun KingAntonia Fraser
Reviewed by Nigel Aston
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £25
Tablet bookshop price £22.50
The Battle for Spain: the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939Antony Beevor
Reviewed by Michael Burleigh
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £25
Tablet bookshop price £22.50
The Worst of Evils: the fight against painThomas Dormandy
Reviewed by Anthony Daniels
Yale University Press, £19.99
Tablet bookshop price £18
The Silent SteppeMukhamet Shayakhmetov
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards
Stacey International, £19.95
Tablet bookshop price £18
Essence of PrayerRuth Burrows OCD
Reviewed by Christopher Howse
CONTINUUM, £9.99
Tablet bookshop price £9
My Music in London 1945-2000John Amis
Reviewed by Nicholas Kenyon
Amiscellany Books, £18.99
Tablet bookshop price £17.10
Daughter of the Desert: the remarkable life of Gertrude BellGeorgina Howell
Reviewed by Kathy Watson
Pan Macmillan, £20
Tablet bookshop price £18
Dead Man in ParadiseJames MacKinnon
Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh
Faber & Faber, £16.99
Tablet bookshop price £15.30
ImperiumRobert Harris
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune
Hutchinson, £17.99
Tablet bookshop price £15.30
Joan of Arc: maid, myth and historyTimothy Wilson-Smith
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh
Sutton, £20
Tablet bookshop price £18
Previous weeks reviews
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaedas road to 9/11Lawrence Wright
Reviewed by Michael Holland
Penguin Allen Lane, £20
Tablet bookshop price £18
RestlessWilliam Boyd
Reviewed by david McLaurin
Bloomsbury, £17.99
Tablet bookshop price £16.20
The Shark God: encounters with myth and magic in the South PacificCharles Montgomery
Reviewed by Margaret Taylor
Fourth Estate, £18.99
Tablet bookshop price £17.10
The Bloodless Revolution: radical vegetarians and the discovery of IndiaTristram Stuart
Reviewed by Krishna Dutta
HarperCollins, £25
Tablet bookshop price £22.50
The Fall of TroyPeter Ackroyd
Reviewed by Philip Womack
Chatto & Windus, £17.99
Tablet bookshop price £16.10