Book reviewed in this issue

Baffled by enigma of sanctity
Mother Teresa: saint or celebrity?
Gëzim Alpion
Reviewed by Kathryn Spink

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900
Andrew Roberts
Reviewed by David Goodall

Medieval Schools from Roman Britain to Renaissance England
Nicholas Orme
Reviewed by Nicholas Vincent

Witchfinder General: the biography of Matthew Hopkins
Craig Cabell
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

The Idea of the Self
Jerrold Seigel
Reviewed by Jane O\\\'Grady

S is for Silence
Sue Grafton
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune

Tomb of the Golden Bird
Elizabeth Peters
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune

Walsingham: prayers and reflections
John Rayne-Davis
Reviewed by David Wilson

Previous weeks reviews

INFLUENCE OF THE 'GALILEO EFFECT'
Negotiating Darwin: the Vatican confronts evolution 1877-1902
Maritano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick and Rafael A. Martinez
Reviewed by Ernan McMullin

The Life of Kingsley Amis
Zachary Leader
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards

William Holman Hunt: painter, painting, paint
Carol Jacobi
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Chin Up, Girls: a book of women\'s obituaries from The Daily Telegraph
eds Georgia Powell and Katherine Ramsay
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Cathal O\'Byrne and the Northern Revival in Ireland, 1890-1960
Richard Kirkland
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Made for Laughter
Sheila Cassidy
Reviewed by David McLaurin

A Spy in the Bookshop: letters between Heywood Hill and John Saumarez Smith 1966-74
ed. John Saumarez Smith
Reviewed by David McLaurin

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

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

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