Book reviewed in this issue

No pity for the honest imperialist
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997
Piers Brendon
Reviewed by Jan Morris

The Bible: the biography
Karen Armstrong
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

The Almost Moon
Alice Sebold
Reviewed by Melissa Katsoulis

Descents of Memory: the life of John Cowper Powys
Morine Krissdóttir
Reviewed by Kate Kavanagh

John Henry Newman: prayers, poems and meditations
Selected and introduced by A.N. Wilson
Reviewed by John Wilkins

Previous weeks reviews

Stephen Bates
Reviewed by Michael Northcott

Victoria Clark
Reviewed by Michael Northcott

Roy Foster
Reviewed by Brendan Smith

Eds Kenneth L. Grasso and Robert P. Hunt
Reviewed by George Weigel

Wesley Stace
Reviewed by Ferdie Addis

Richard Mabey
Reviewed by Judith Rice

Trailing clouds of glory
Creation: artists, gods and origins
Peter Conrad
Reviewed by John McEwen

Just War: the just war tradition: ethics in modern warfare
Charles Guthrie and Michael Quinlan
Reviewed by David Goodall

Fire in the Blood
Irène Némirovsky (trans. Sandra Smith)
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly

Exit Music
Ian Rankin
Reviewed by Andy Bull

The Fall-out: how a guilty liberal lost his innocence
Andrew Anthony
Reviewed by Jane O\'Grady

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

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