Book reviewed in this issue

The wonder of perfect patterns
God’s Universe
Owen Gingerich
Reviewed by John Habgood

Something There: the biology of the human spirit
David Hay
Reviewed by Alister E. McGrath

City of Laughter: sex and satire in eighteenth-century London
Vic Gatrell
Reviewed by Paul ffolkes Davis

William Powell Frith
Christopher Wood
Reviewed by Desmond Seward

Time at War
Nicholas Mosley
Reviewed by Michael Estorick

Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
John Mortimer
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune

Previous weeks reviews

Chameleon edging close to greatness
Articles of Faith: the collected Tablet journalism of Graham Greene
ed. Ian Thomson
Reviewed by David Lodge

A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the art of the novel
Bernard Bergonzi
Reviewed by David Lodge

Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Reviewed by David Jowitt

The Jesse Tree
Geraldine McCaughrean
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs

A Lover of Unreason
Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
Reviewed by Oliver Bernard

Barometer of political weather
Thatcher and Sons: a revolution in three acts
Simon Jenkins
Reviewed by Peter Hennessy

Simon Schama’s Power of Art
Simon Schama
Reviewed by John McEwen

Peter Pan in Scarlet: the official sequel
Geraldine McCaughrean
Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge

A Gospel of Wild Flowers
Anthony Foottit
Reviewed by Lettice Buxton

Mutiny that destroyed an emperor
The Last Mughal: the fall of a dynasty, Delhi, 1857
William Dalrymple
Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer

Angels in the Early Modern World
Ed. Peter Marshall and Alexandra Walsham
Reviewed by Andrew Redden

Rabble-Rouser for Peace: the authorised biography of Archbishop Desmond Tutu
John Allen
Reviewed by Piers McGrandle

A Spot of Bother
Mark Haddon
Reviewed by David McLaurin

The Middle Sea: a history of the Mediterranean
John Julius Norwich
Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith

Hugh Fearlessly Eats It All
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Reviewed by Andy Bull

The Taste of Britain
Laura Mason and Catherine Brown
Reviewed by Andy Bull

The Omnivore\'s Dilemma
Michael Pollan
Reviewed by Andy Bull

Heat
Bill Buford
Reviewed by Andy Bull

Devotion found on the margins
Marking the Hours: English people and their prayers, 1240-1570
Eamon Duffy
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

On Royalty
Jeremy Paxman
Reviewed by Ian Bradley

In Spite of the Gods: the strange rise of modern India
Edward Luce
Reviewed by David Goodall

Private Battles: how the war almost defeated us
ed. Simon Garfield
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge

Sand in my Shoes: wartime diaries of a WAAF
Joan Rice
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge

Waiting for Hitler: voices from Britain on the brink of invasion
Midge Gillies
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge

Charles Kennedy: a tragic flaw
Greg Hurst
Reviewed by Vincent McKee

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