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Prospects for a wild country
The Punishment of Virtue Free Article
Sarah Chayes
Reviewed by Peter Popham


Rescuing Afghanistan
William Maley
Reviewed by Peter Popham


Cameron: the rise of the new Conservative
Francis Elliott and James Hanning
Reviewed by Hywel Williams


The Wreck of the Golden Mary
Charles Dickens (foreword by Simon Callow)
Reviewed by Robert Nye


Somebody’s Luggage
Charles Dickens (foreword by Philippa Stockley)
Reviewed by Robert Nye


Dickens on France
Ed. John Edmondson
Reviewed by Robert Nye


Cryers Hill
Kitty Aldridge
Reviewed by Melissa Katsoulis


A Romanov Fantasy: life at the court of Anna Anderson
Frances Welch
Reviewed by Nicholas Tucker


Previous weeks reviews

Christ in faith and history
Jesus of Nazareth: from the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration Free Article
Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI
Reviewed by Fergus Kerr


Religion in Public Life: must faith be privatized?
Roger Trigg
Reviewed by David Martin


The Image of St Francis: responses to sainthood in the thirteenth century
Rosalind B. Brooke
Reviewed by Nicholas Vincent


The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil
Brian Davies
Reviewed by Brian Hebblethwaite


Crisis of Doubt: honest faith in nineteenth-century England
Timothy Larsen
Reviewed by Jeremy Morris


Behind the Scenes at Galileo’s Trial
Richard J. Blackwell
Reviewed by Michael Hoskin


Popes, Cardinals and War: the military Church in renaissance and early modern Europe
D.S. Chambers
Reviewed by Michael Walsh


A History of Global Anglicanism
Kevin Ward
Reviewed by Theo Hobson


Late Medieval Monasteries and their Patrons: England and Wales, c. 1300-1540
Karen Stöber
Reviewed by Andrew Breeze

A faith on the move
Islam: past, present and future Free Article
Hans Küng
Reviewed by Christian W. Troll


The Senses in Late Medieval England
C.M. Woolgar
Reviewed by Nicholas Vincent


The Lucifer Effect: how good people turn evil
Philip Zimbardo
Reviewed by Jane O\'Grady


The Druids
Ronald Hutton
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright


The Children of Húrin
J.R.R. Tolkien
Reviewed by Raymond Evans

In the war but not at war
That Neutral Island: a cultural history of Ireland during the Second World War Free Article
Clair Wills
Reviewed by Fergus Campbell


A Heart in my Head: a biography of Richard Harries
John S. Peart-Binns
Reviewed by John Habgood


Redemption Falls
Joseph O’Connor
Reviewed by Nicole Pepinster Greene


The Road He Travelled: the revealing biography of M. Scott Peck
Arthur Jones
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh


Sunday at the Cross Bones
John Walsh
Reviewed by Daniel Jeffreys

China’s diplomatic evangelists
Journey to the East: the Jesuit mission to China, 1579-1724 Free Article
Liam Matthew Brockey
Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer


The Meaning of Life
Terry Eagleton
Reviewed by Edward Skidelsky


Ten Days in the Hills
Jane Smiley
Reviewed by Kathy Watson


Believing in Britain: the spiritual identity of Britishness
Ian Bradley
Reviewed by Theo Hobson


Tokens of Trust: an introduction to Christian belief
Rowan Williams
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Poetry of yearning and reality
Shakespeare the Thinker Free Article
A.D. Nuttall
Reviewed by Fernando Cervantes


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