Book reviewed in this issue

A jaundiced catalogue of scandals
God is not great: the case against religion
Christopher Hitchens
Reviewed by John Cornwell

The real toy story
Eric Clark
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh

C. Day-Lewis
Peter Stanford
Reviewed by Robert Nye

Consequences
Penelope Lively
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

Courage: eight portraits
Gordon Brown
Reviewed by Jonathan Aitken

Previous weeks reviews

Victorians’ English utopia
Medievalism: the Middle Ages in modern England
Michael Alexander
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

St Pancras Station
Simon Bradley
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Gandhi: a political and spiritual life
Kathryn Tidrick
Reviewed by David Goodall

Bomber Boys: fighting back 1940-1945
Patrick Bishop
Reviewed by Christopher Herdon

Forgotten Voices of the Falklands
Hugh McManners
Reviewed by Christopher Herdon

Prisoner of War
Charles Rollings
Reviewed by Christopher Herdon

In the Dark
Deborah Moggach
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

By Hook or By Crook: a journey in search of English
David Crystal
Reviewed by Dot Wordsworth

Prospects for a wild country
The Punishment of Virtue
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

Christ in faith and history
Jesus of Nazareth: from the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
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

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