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Dangerous Utopias of godless religions
The New Atheists Free Article
Tina Beattie
Reviewed by Chris Hedges


The Abstinence Teacher
Tom Perrotta
Reviewed by David McLaurin


The Silence at the Song’s End
Nicholas Heiney (eds Libby Purves and Duncan Wu)
Reviewed by Theo Hobson


Field Work: selected essays
Ronald Blythe
Reviewed by P.J. Kavanagh


Previous weeks reviews

Fiction’s sacramental insights
Aiming at Heaven, Getting the Earth: the English Catholic novel today Free Article
Marian E. Crowe
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh


The Whisperers: private life in Stalin’s Russia
Orlando Figes
Reviewed by Konstantin Eggert


The Careful Use of Compliments
Alexander McCall Smith
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune


Raphael
Bette Talvacchia
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin


Taste: the story of Britain through its cooking
Kate Colquhoun
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge


The Barefoot Emperor
Philip Marsden
Reviewed by Bruce Clark

Look back in reasonable reflections
Due Considerations Free Article
John Updike
Reviewed by Edward Skidelsky


The King’s Glass: a story of Tudor power and secret art
Carola Hicks
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright


Murdering Americans
Ruth Dudley Edwards
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune


Scotland: the autobiography
Ed. Rosemary Goring
Reviewed by John Haldane


The First Day of the Blitz
Peter Stansky
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly


Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain
Joshua Levine (in association with the Imperial War Museum)
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly


Young Voices: British children remember the Second World War
Lyn Smith (in association with the Imperial War Museum)
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly


Spitfire Women of World War II
Giles Whittell
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly


Latin Love Lessons: put a little Ovid in your life
Charlotte Higgins
Reviewed by Philip Womack


Malcolm Williamson: a mischievous muse
Anthony Meredith and Paul Harris
Reviewed by John Amis


Maurice Baring: letters
Eds Jocelyn Hillgarth and Julian Jeffs
Reviewed by John Jolliffe


The People on Privilege Hill
Jane Gardam
Reviewed by Kathy Watson


Selective Memory
Katharine Whitehorn
Reviewed by Catherine Pepinster


Agatha Christie: an English mystery
Laura Thompson
Reviewed by Michael Estorick


Once More With Feeling
Rupert Christiansen
Reviewed by Ian Bradley

No pity for the honest imperialist
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 Free Article
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


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