Book reviewed in this issue

Still angry puritans at heart
God Won’t Save America
George Walden
Reviewed by Gerard Baker

Love and Louis XIV: the women in the life of the Sun King
Antonia Fraser
Reviewed by Nigel Aston

The Battle for Spain: the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
Antony Beevor
Reviewed by Michael Burleigh

The Worst of Evils: the fight against pain
Thomas Dormandy
Reviewed by Anthony Daniels

The Silent Steppe
Mukhamet Shayakhmetov
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards

Essence of Prayer
Ruth Burrows OCD
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

My Music in London 1945-2000
John Amis
Reviewed by Nicholas Kenyon

Daughter of the Desert: the remarkable life of Gertrude Bell
Georgina Howell
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

Dead Man in Paradise
James MacKinnon
Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh

Imperium
Robert Harris
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune

Joan of Arc: maid, myth and history
Timothy Wilson-Smith
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh

Previous weeks reviews

Anglo-Catholic Platitudes
Betjeman
A.N. Wilson
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda’s road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
Reviewed by Michael Holland

Restless
William Boyd
Reviewed by david McLaurin

The Shark God: encounters with myth and magic in the South Pacific
Charles Montgomery
Reviewed by Margaret Taylor

The Bloodless Revolution: radical vegetarians and the discovery of India
Tristram Stuart
Reviewed by Krishna Dutta

The Fall of Troy
Peter Ackroyd
Reviewed by Philip Womack

A restless heart keeps its secrets
Donne: the reformed soul
John Stubbs
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

A Pocket Guide to Ethical Issues
Andrew Goddard
Reviewed by David Albert Jones

The Sea Lady
Magaret Drabble
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

The Life of Richard Waldo Sibthorp
Michael Trott
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Arlington Park
Rachel Cusk
Reviewed by Philip Womack

Bad Food Britain
Joanna Blythman
Reviewed by William Skidelsky

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

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

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