Book reviewed in this issue

Middle way for global giants
The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st century
Will Hutton
Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer

Alexis de Tocqueville: prophet of democracy in the age of revolution
Hugh Brogan
Reviewed by Fernando Cervantes

Grass Seed in June
John Martin Robinson
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly

Skylight Confessions
Alice Hoffman
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge

Conversation: a history of a declining art
Stephen Miller
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Previous weeks reviews

Origins of a modern virus
Rome and Jerusalem: the clash of ancient civilizations
Martin Goodman
Reviewed by Paul Johnson

The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in nineteenth-century English culture
Michael Wheeler
Reviewed by Aidan Bellenger

Mother’s Boy
Stanley Middleton
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Living Vatican II: the 21st council for the 21st century
Gerald O’Collins
Reviewed by Michael Walsh

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

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

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