Previous weeks reviews

A Call to liberty, not betrayal
Infidel: my life
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Reviewed by Jane O’Grady

Oliver James
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh

Alan Mould
Reviewed by Keith Mitchell

Ruth Rendell
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune

Ruth Artmonsky
Reviewed by John Haldane

Leaders against the grain
The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister: three who changed the world
John O’Sullivan
Reviewed by Edward Stourton

Jewish Heritage in England: an architectural guide
Sharman Kadish
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Gemstone of Paradise: the Holy Grail in Wolfram’s Parzival
G. Ronald Murphy SJ
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

The Solitude of Thomas Cave
Georgina Harding
Reviewed by Charlotte Wilkins

Ella: princess, saint and martyr
Christopher Warwick
Reviewed by Konstantin Eggert

What if life goes on and on and on ...
How to Live Forever or Die Trying: on the new immortality
Bryan Appleyard
Reviewed by Anthony Daniels

The Nation’s Mantelpiece: a history of the National Gallery
Jonathan Conlin
Reviewed by John McEwen

The Renaissance Popes: culture, power and the making of the Borgia myth
Gerard Noel
Reviewed by Michael Walsh

Red Princess: a revolutionary life
Sofka Zinovieff
Reviewed by William Charlton

The Brainstorm
Jenny Turner
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

Pope who has baffled his critics
The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and his battle with the modern world
David Gibson
Reviewed by John Wilkins

A Church in Search of Itself: Benedict XVI and the battle for the future
Robert Blair Kaiser
Reviewed by John Wilkins

In the Light of Christ: writings in the Western tradition
Lucy Beckett
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Early Irish Monasticism: an understanding of its cultural roots
Catherine Thom
Reviewed by Augustine Holmes

A Glimpse of Heaven: Catholic Churches of England and Wales
Christopher Martin
Reviewed by Richard Lethbridge

The New Frontier of Religion and Science: religious experience, neuroscience and the transcendent
John Hick
Reviewed by David Hay

My Life with the Saints
James Martin SJ
Reviewed by Michael Walsh

Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain: the disinherited spirit
Frank Prochaska
Reviewed by Terry Philpot

With Hearts and Minds: reflections on our participation in the Mass
Catholic Truth Society
Reviewed by Peter J. Harrison

Interfaith Dialogue – a Catholic view
Michael Fitzgerald and John Borelli
Reviewed by Michael Barnes