Previous weeks reviews

New gospel of health and wealth
The Next Christendom: the coming of global Christianity
Philip Jenkins
Reviewed by John Pridmore

Inquisition: the reign of fear
Toby Green
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

Young Pushkin
Yuri Tynyanov (trans. Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush)
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Wildwood: a journey through trees
Roger Deakin
Reviewed by Kate Kavanagh

The wild trees: what if the last wilderness is above our heads?
Richard Preston
Reviewed by Kate Kavanagh

The Elephanta Suite
Paul Theroux
Reviewed by Nicholas Garrard

Radicals and conscience-wrestlers
Catholic Social Justice: theological and practical explorations
Eds Philomena Cullen, Bernard Hoose and Gerard Mannion
Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh

Mrs Woolf and the Servants
Alison Light
Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge

Secrets of the Sea
Nicholas Shakespeare
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

The Final Call: in search of the true cost of our holidays
Leo Hickman
Reviewed by James Painter

Iceland, its Scenes and Sagas
Sabine Baring-Gould
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge

India after Gandhi: the history of the world’s largest democracy
Ramachandra Guha
Reviewed by David Goodall

The clash within: democracy, religious violence, and India’s future
Martha C. Nussbaum
Reviewed by David Goodall

Light in the dark ages: the friendship of Francis and Clare of Assisi
Jon M. Sweeney
Reviewed by Lawrence Cunningham

A history of the world in six glasses
Tom Standage
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune

The Carhullan army
Sarah Hall
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

Call for the return of realism
Black Mass: apocalyptic religion and the death of Utopia
John Gray
Reviewed by Chris Hedges

Sergey Prokofiev Diaries 1907-1914: prodigious youth
Trans. and annotated by Anthony Phillips
Reviewed by John Amis

The Pagan House
David Flusfeder
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Winnie and Wolf
A.N. Wilson
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Nuns: a history of convent life
Silvia Evangelishi
Reviewed by Judith Champ

INSPIRATION FROM A BOLD MYSTIC
Chiara Lubich, Essential Writings: spirituality, dialogue, culture
Complied and ed. Michel Vandeleene
Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh

People of the Book: the forgotten history of Islam and West
Zachary Karabell
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones
Reviewed by Margaret Taylor

Crow Country
Mark Cocker
Reviewed by John Wilkins

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