Book reviewed in this issue

The past comes back to haunt us
Sacred Causes: religion and politics from the European dictators to Al Qaeda
Michael Burleigh
Reviewed by Daniel Johnson

Sir Ninian Comper
Anthony Symondson and Stephen Bucknall
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties
Peter Hennessy
Reviewed by Anthony Howard

Nature’s Engraver: a life of Thomas Bewick
Jenny Uglow
Reviewed by Kate Kavanagh

The Mission Song
John le Carré
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune

Previous weeks reviews

Flawed case for the prosecution
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
Reviewed by John Cottingham

Seeing in the Dark
Nicholas Lash
Reviewed by Allan White

Walking to Emmaus
Eamon Duffy
Reviewed by Allan White

Last Rites: the end of the Church of England
Michael Hampson
Reviewed by Rupert Scott

Sacrifice and Community: Jewish offering and Christian Eucharist
Matthew Levering
Reviewed by Philip McCosker

Roman Catholicism and Modern Science: a history
Don O’Leary
Reviewed by Michael Hoskin

Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello
Jules Lubbock
Reviewed by John McEwen

Opening Up: speaking out in the Church
Eds Julian Filochowski and Peter Stanford
Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh

Witnesses to Faith? Martyrdom in Christianity and Islam
ed. Brian Wicker
Reviewed by Andrew Chandler

Rock of Doubt
Sydney Carter
Reviewed by John Wilkins

Long wessex road to destiny
Thomas Hardy: the time-torn man
Claire Tomalin
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

Peace at Any Price: how the world failed Kosovo
Iain King and Whit Mason
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh

The Curse of Salamander Street
G.P. Taylor
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards

Connemara: listening to the wind
Tim Robinson
Reviewed by Robert Nye

Anarchy, Church and Utopia: Rowan Williams on Church
Theo Hobson
Reviewed by Peter Groves

A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
ed. and trans. by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Shirley, Goodness and Mercy: a childhood in Africa
Chris van Wyk
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Hans Holbein: portrait of an unknown man
Derek Wilson
Reviewed by David McLaurin

A Very British Family: the Trevelyans and their world
Laura Trevelyan
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Secret codes of spiritual survival
Edmund Campion: memory and transcription
Gerard Kilroy
Reviewed by Fernando Cervantes

The Sight of Death: an experiment in art writing
T.J. Clark
Reviewed by John McEwen

The Ruby in Her Navel
Barry Unsworth
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Twelve Days, Revolution 1956: how the Hungarians tried to topple
Victor Sebestyen
Reviewed by Marcus Tanner

A Good Comrade: János Kádár, Communism and Hungary
Roger Gough
Reviewed by Marcus Tanner

The Will to Survive: a history of Hungary
Bryan Cartledge
Reviewed by Marcus Tanner

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