Book reviewed in this issue

In search of that extra oomph
Nothing to be Frightened of
Julian Barnes
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

The Wildest Province: SOE in the land of the eagle
Roderick Bailey
Reviewed by David Goodall

The Butt
Will Self
Reviewed by James Ferguson

Deep Calls to Deep: going further in prayer
David Foster OSB
Reviewed by Rima Devereaux

Previous weeks reviews

War’s gruesome calculus
The Three Trillion Dollar War: the true cost of the Iraq conflict
Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes
Reviewed by Robert Fox

Resounding Truth: Christian wisdom in the world of music
Jeremy Begbie
Reviewed by James MacMillan

The New Black: mourning, melancholia and depression
Darian Leader
Reviewed by Jane O\'Grady

Breath
Michael Symmons Roberts
Reviewed by Tom Fleming

Gardener with a thirst for beauty
Ratzinger’s Faith: the theology of Pope Benedict XVI
Tracey Rowland
Reviewed by Fergus Kerr

A Challenging Reform: realizing the vision of the liturgical renewal
Piero Marini
Reviewed by James Leachman

Defending the West: a critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism
Ibn Warraq
Reviewed by Hazhir Teimourian

God’s Fury, England’s Fire: a new history of the English Civil Wars
Michael Braddick
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

Christ the Lord: the road to Cana
Anne Rice
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Road to a precarious peace
Ireland: the politics of enmity 1789-2006
Paul Bew
Reviewed by David Goodall

Children’s World: growing up in Russia 1890-1991
Catriona Kelly
Reviewed by Konstantin Eggert

Clean: an unsanitised history of washing
Katherine Ashenburg
Reviewed by James Ferguson

The Bible and Zionism: invented traditions, archaeology, and post-colonialism in Israel-Palestine
Nur Masalha
Reviewed by Mary Grey

We Are Now Beginning Our Descent
James Meek
Reviewed by Charlotte Wilkins

Reconnect the pulpit and the pew
Clericalism: the death of priesthood
George B. Wilson SJ
Reviewed by Tony Philpot

The Kindness of God: metaphor, gender and religious language
Janet Martin Soskice
Reviewed by Fergus Kerr

Taking Pictures
Anne Enright
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

On God: an uncommon conversation
Norman Mailer with Michael Lennon
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh

Poems of John Milton
Selected and introduced by Claire Tomalin
Reviewed by Michael Glover

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

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

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