Book reviewed in this issue

Tenderness, guilt and ambition
Graham Greene: a life in letters
Ed. Richard Greene
Reviewed by David Lodge

Byzantium: the surprising life of a medieval empire
Judith Herrin
Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith

Conan Doyle
Andrew Lycett
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune

The Mitfords: letters between six sisters
Ed. Charlotte Mosley
Reviewed by Michael Estorick

Shakespeare’s Wife
Germaine Greer
Reviewed by Fernando Cervantes

Shakespeare: the world as a stage
Bill Bryson
Reviewed by Fernando Cervantes

Bright Young People
D.J. Taylor
Reviewed by Jeremy Lewis

Diary of a Bad Year
J.M. Coetzee
Reviewed by Piers McGrandle

It Was the Nightingale
Ford Madox Ford
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge

Run
Ann Patchett
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

The Rain Before It Falls
Jonathan Coe
Reviewed by Andy Bull

Previous weeks reviews

Unstilled Human Longings
A Secular Age
Charles Taylor
Reviewed by Fergus Kerr

Robert Peel: a biography
Douglas Hurd
Reviewed by Paul ffolkes-Davis

Paradise with Serpents: travels in the lost world of Paraguay
Robert Carver
Reviewed by Shelby Tucker

God is Dead
Ron Currie Jr
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh

Squires in the Slums: settlements and missions in late Victorian London
Nigel Scotland
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Darwin’s Angel: an angelic riposte to The God Delusion
John Cornwell
Reviewed by Anthony Kenny

The Wild Places
Robert Macfarlane
Reviewed by P.J. Kavanagh

After the Reich: from the liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift
Giles MacDonogh
Reviewed by Richard Bassett

The Illumination of Merton Browne
J.M. Shaw
Reviewed by Victoria Combe

Olivier Messiaen: music, art and literature
Eds Christopher Dingle and Nigel Simeone
Reviewed by Rick Jones

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

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