Book reviewed in this issue

In the climate of their time
Catholics in the Movies
Ed. Colleen McDannell
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly

See the Virgin Blest: the Virgin Mary in English poetry
Barry Spurr
Reviewed by Robert Nye

How to Read a Village
Richard Muir
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

His Illegal Self
Peter Carey
Reviewed by Ferdie Addis

Previous weeks reviews

Heaven and middle earth
Inklings of Heaven: C.S. Lewis and Eschatology
Sean Connolly
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards

Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians: the fantasy of the real
Alison Milbank
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards

The Art of Political Murder: who killed the bishop?
Francisco Goldman
Reviewed by James Painter

The Earth Only Endures: on reconnecting with nature and our place in it
Jules Pretty
Reviewed by Russell Sparkes

A Vengeful Longing
R.N. Morris
Reviewed by Andy Bull

The Second Plane
Martin Amis
Reviewed by Bredan Walsh

Work: our individual liturgy
The Craftsman
Richard Sennett
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

The Basque Country: a cultural history
Paddy Woodworth
Reviewed by Jimmy Burns

Catalonia: a cultural history
Michael Eaude
Reviewed by Jimmy Burns

Round the Church in 50 Years: an intimate journey
Trevor Beeson
Reviewed by Theo Hobson

Rhett Butler’s People
Donald McCaig
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune

Human Goods, Economic Evils: a moral approach to the dismal science
Edward Hadas
Reviewed by Philip Booth

To justify the ways of God to man
Milton: poet, pamphleteer and patriot
Anna Beer
Reviewed by Robert Nye

American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Reviewed by John Cornwell

Honor in Foreign Policy: a history and discussion
Michael Donelan
Reviewed by David Goodall

Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England: Robert Persons’ Jesuit polemic, 1580-1610
Victor Houliston
Reviewed by James Kelly

The Song of Bernadette: the immortal story of Bernadette of Lourdes
Franz Werfel (trans. Ludwig Lewisohn)
Reviewed by Rima Devereaux

Austere man of action and intellect
John Stuart Mill: Victorian firebrand
Richard Reeves
Reviewed by John Cottingham

Earls of Paradise: England and the dream of perfection
Adam Nicolson
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

The Memory Room
Christopher Koch
Reviewed by Andy Bull

The Last Supper
Philip Willan
Reviewed by John Phillips

Lilian Baylis: a biography
Elizabeth Schafer
Reviewed by John Amis

The seeds of genesis and creation
Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion
Francisco J. Ayala
Reviewed by Ernan McMullin

The Home We Build Together: recreating society
Jonathan Sacks
Reviewed by David Martin

Saints in the Landscape
Graham Jones
Reviewed by Michael Walsh

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