Book reviewed in this issue
Something There: the biology of the human spiritDavid Hay
Reviewed by Alister E. McGrath
Dartman, longman and todd, £15.95
Tablet bookshop price £14.40
City of Laughter: sex and satire in eighteenth-century LondonVic Gatrell
Reviewed by Paul ffolkes Davis
Atlantic Books, £30
Tablet bookshop price £27
William Powell FrithChristopher Wood
Reviewed by Desmond Seward
Sutton, £20
Tablet bookshop price £18
Time at WarNicholas Mosley
Reviewed by Michael Estorick
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.99
Tablet bookshop price £13.50
Rumpole and the Reign of TerrorJohn Mortimer
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune
Viking, £18.99
Tablet bookshop price £17.10
Previous weeks reviews
A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the art of the novelBernard Bergonzi
Reviewed by David Lodge
Oxford University Press, £16.99
Tablet bookshop price £15.30
Half of a Yellow SunChimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Reviewed by David Jowitt
Fourth Estate, £14.99
Tablet bookshop price £13.50
The Jesse TreeGeraldine McCaughrean
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs
Lion Childrens Books, £8.99
Tablet bookshop price £8.10
A Lover of UnreasonYehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
Reviewed by Oliver Bernard
Robson Books, £20
Tablet bookshop price £18