Book reviewed in this issue

Dangerous Utopias of godless religions
The New Atheists
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
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
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
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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