Book reviewed in this issue
Being Reasonable About ReligionWilliam Charlton
Reviewed by Christopher Howse
Ashgate, £45
Tablet bookshop price £40.50
Belief: A short history for todayG.R. Evans
Reviewed by Christopher Howse
I.B. Tauris, £12.99
Tablet bookshop price £11.70
The Song Before It Is SungJustin Cartwright
Reviewed by Andreas Campomar
Bloomsbury, £14.99
Tablet bookshop price £13.50
The Renaissance Hospital: healing the body and healing the soulJohn Henderson
Reviewed by Anthony Daniels
Yale University Press, £35
Tablet bookshop price £31.50
The challenge of affluence: self-control and well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950Avner Offer
Reviewed by Edward Hadas
Oxford University Press, £30
Tablet bookshop price £27
Odd woman outJulian Fane
Reviewed by David McLaurin
Book guild, £17.99
Tablet bookshop price £16.20
Previous weeks reviews
Alexis de Tocqueville: prophet of democracy in the age of revolutionHugh Brogan
Reviewed by Fernando Cervantes
Profile Books, £30
Tablet bookshop price £27
Grass Seed in JuneJohn Martin Robinson
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly
Michael Russell, £16.95
Tablet bookshop price £15.30
Skylight ConfessionsAlice Hoffman
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge
Chatto & Windus, £12.99
Tablet bookshop price £11.70
Conversation: a history of a declining artStephen Miller
Reviewed by Christopher Howse
Yale University Press, £18
Tablet bookshop price £16.20