Book reviewed in this issue

Backstage politics of the council
Vatican II: a sociological analysis of religious change
Melissa J. Wilde
Reviewed by David Martin

Mary: the complete resource
Ed. Sarah Jane Boss
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh

Mary for Time and Eternity: essays on Mary and ecumenism
Eds William McLoughlin and Jill Pinnock
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh

The Fourfold Gospel Commentary
Ed. Andrew Gregory
Reviewed by Nicholas King

How to Read Aquinas
Timothy McDermott
Reviewed by Fergus Kerr

The New Nuns: racial justice and religious reform in the 1960s
Amy L. Koehlinger
Reviewed by Gemma Simmonds

Green Sisters: a spiritual ecology
Sarah McFarland Taylor
Reviewed by Gemma Simmonds

Anglican and Evangelical?
Richard Turnbull
Reviewed by Theo Hobson

Catholicism at the Crossroads: how the laity can save the Church
Paul Lakeland
Reviewed by John Wilkins

Fasting
Dag Tessore
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Previous weeks reviews

Frontline of a pandemic
28: stories of Aids in Africa
Stephanie Nolen
Reviewed by Mary Hallaway

The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the fight against Aids
Helen Epstein
Reviewed by Mary Hallaway

Reflecting Theologically on Aids: a global challenge
Ed. Robin Gill
Reviewed by Mary Hallaway

Realm of the Black Mountain: a history of Montenegro
Elizabeth Roberts
Reviewed by John Phillips

The Land, The Bible, and History: toward the land that I will show you
Alain Marchadour AA and David Neuhaus SJ
Reviewed by Nicholas King

Divisadero
Michael Ondaatje
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

A Time Out of Joint: a journey from Nazi Germany to post-war Britain
Roland Hill
Reviewed by David Goodall

A Writer’s People: ways of looking and feeling
V.S. Naipaul
Reviewed by Ian Thomson

Fallen Angels
Harold Bloom
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Cavalier: a tale of chivalry, passion and great houses
Lucy Worsley
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

From physicist to priest: an autobiography
John Polkinghorne
Reviewed by John Cornwell

The Uncommon Reader
Alan Bennett
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh

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

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

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

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