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16 December 2006


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The wonder of perfect patterns
God’s Universe Free Article
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 Free Article
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 Free Article
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 Free Article
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 Free Article
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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