Book reviewed in this issue

Flawed analysis of the Jesus of History
How Jesus Became Christian: the early Christians and the transformation of a Jewish teacher into the Son of God
Barrie Wilson
Reviewed by Gerald O’Collins

Vendetta: high art and low cunning at the birth of the Renaissance
Hugh Bicheno
Reviewed by John McEwen

Glister
John Burnside
Reviewed by Ferdie Addis

Powys and Emma Goldman: the letters of John Cowper Powys and Emma Goldman (1936-1940)
Ed. David Goodway
Reviewed by Kate Kavanagh

Powys and Dorothy Richardson: the letters of John Cowper Powys and Dorothy Richardson (1929-1953)
Ed. Janet Fouli
Reviewed by Kate Kavanagh

Previous weeks reviews

Richard Askwith
Reviewed by James Ferguson

All is not well in arcadia
Real England: the battle against the bland
Paul Kingsnorth
Reviewed by James Ferguson

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth
Frances Wilson
Reviewed by Robert Nye

Just Policing, Not War: an alternative response to world violence
Ed. Gerald Schlabach
Reviewed by Brian Wicker

The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh

Cooking and Dining in Medieval England
Peter Brears
Reviewed by Nicholas Vincent

New Collected Poems
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Giovanni Bellini
Oskar Bätschmann
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

Home: a memoir of my early years
Julie Andrews
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune

Jeanie, an ‘Army of One’: Mrs Nassau Senior 1828-1877
Sybil Oldfield
Reviewed by Nicholas Tucker

China’s growing faiths
Religious Experience in Contemporary China
Xinzhong Yao and Paul Badham
Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer

God’s Crucible: Islam and the making of Europe
David Levering Lewis
Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith

Revelation
C.J. Sansom
Reviewed by David McLaurin

The Northern Rebellion of 1569: faith, politics, and protest in Elizabethan England
K.J. Kesselring
Reviewed by James Kelly

Servants of the Supernatural: the night side of the Victorian mind
Antonio Melechi
Reviewed by Jane o\'Grady

A chill wind blows from the east
The New Cold War: how the Kremlin menaces both Russia and the West
Edward Lucas
Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer

God and Caesar
George Pell
Reviewed by John Wilkins

John Henry Newman: a mind alive
Roderick Strange
Reviewed by Alexander Lucie-Smith

Progressive Illumination: a journey with John Henry Newman, 1980-2005
Edward J. Ondrako
Reviewed by Alexander Lucie-Smith

The Northern Clemency
Philip Hensher
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh

Out of the Blue
Simon Armitage
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Mandeville
Matthew Francis
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Selected Poems
Bernard O’Donoghue
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Fortune’s Prisoner
James Harpur
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Mountain Home
David Hinton
Reviewed by Michael Glover