Book reviewed in this issue

Poet as a ‘country healer’
The Letters of Ted Hughes
Selected and edited by Christopher Reid
Reviewed by Robert Nye

The Second Crusade: extending the frontiers of Christendom
Jonathan Phillips
Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith

The Children’s Crusade: medieval history, modern mythistory
Gary Dickson
Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith

Forgotten Continent: the battle for Latin America’s soul
Michael Reid
Reviewed by James Painter

On Fire: a novel of the 1950s
John Ogden
Reviewed by Desmond Seward

Persia: through writers’ eyes
ed. David Blow
Reviewed by Isobel Alexander

Egypt: through writers’ eyes
ed. Deborah Manley and Sahar Abdel-Hakim
Reviewed by Isobel Alexander

Previous weeks reviews

Reaching beyond the easily said
The Contagion of Jesus: doing theology as if it mattered
Sebastian Moore
Reviewed by Timothy Radcliffe

The English Cardinals
Nicholas Schofield and Gerard Skinner
Reviewed by Aidan Bellenger

Where Three Roads Meet
Salley Vickers
Reviewed by Noonie Minogue

Rosslyn Chapel Revealed
Michael T.R.B. Turnbull
Reviewed by John Haldane

The CTS New Catholic Bible
Henry Wansbrough OSB
Reviewed by Nicholas King

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: climate change – is time running out?
Elizabeth Kolbert
Reviewed by James Painter

Climate Change: what it means for us, our children, and our grandchildren
Eds Joseph F.C. DiMento and Pamela Doughman
Reviewed by James Painter

Scottish Piety: a miscellany from five centuries
Ed. A.C. Cheyne
Reviewed by Ian Bradley

New battle for the soul of Europe
God’s Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe’s religious crisis
Philip Jenkins
Reviewed by Christian W. Troll

The Discovery of France
Graham Robb
Reviewed by Tim Heald

Ezra Pound: poet. Volume 1: the young genius 1885-1920
A. David Moody
Reviewed by Michael Alexander

Fame and Fortune
Frederic Raphael
Reviewed by Michael Barber

Mary Tudor: the first queen
Linda Porter
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

Meeting of minds and dreams
Fr Victor White, OP: the story of Jung’s ‘White Raven’
Clodagh Weldon
Reviewed by Fergus Kerr

The Jung-White Letters
Eds Ann Conrad Lammers and Adrian Cunningham
Reviewed by Fergus Kerr

The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street
Charles Nicholl
Reviewed by Ian Thomson

The Quiet Girl
Peter Høeg
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

Avignon of the Popes: city of exiles
Edwin Mullins
Reviewed by Michael Walsh

The Book of Other People
ed. Zadie Smith
Reviewed by Daniel Jeffreys

Victorian Architecture: diversity & invention
James Stevens Curl
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

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

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

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