Book reviewed in this issue

The gloom and hope of life
Deaf Sentence
David Lodge
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh

The Red Prince: the fall of a dynasty and the rise of modern Europe
Timothy Snyder
Reviewed by Richard Bassett

Rediscover Jesus: a pilgrim’s guide to the land, the personalities and the language of Luke
Peter Edmonds SJ
Reviewed by Nicholas King

Devil May Care
Sebastian Faulks
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune

Touched by God: ten monastic journeys
Ed. Laurentia Johns OSB
Reviewed by Bernard Green

Previous weeks reviews

The rise of the Asian giants
Rivals: how the power struggle between China, India and Japan will shape our next decade
Bill Emmott
Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer

The Morville Hours
Katherine Swift
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly

The Three Of Us: a family story
Julia Blackburn
Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge

The Three Gospels: New Testament history introduced by the Synoptic problem
Martin Mosse
Reviewed by Nicholas King

The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Still a convent girl at heart
Speaking for Myself
Cherie Blair
Reviewed by Catherine Pepinster

The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the fate of his lost library
Marcus Tanner
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

The English Country House Chapel: building a Protestant tradition
Annabel Ricketts
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

The Lost Dog
Michelle de Kretser
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

The Church of England in the Twentieth Century: the Church Commissioners and the politics of reform 1948-1998
Andrew Chandler
Reviewed by Theo Hobson

The Garden of Bad Dreams
Christopher Hope
Reviewed by Daniel Jeffrys

The Soteriology of Leo the Great
Bernard Green
Reviewed by R.A. Markus

Man is more than his neurology
The Kingdom of Infinite Space: a fantastical journey around your head
Raymond Tallis
Reviewed by Anthony Dniels

Croatia Through History
Branka Magas
Reviewed by Vesna Popovski

Isaac Rosenberg: the making of a great war poet
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Reviewed by Michael Glover

All the Sad Young Literary Men
Keith Gessen
Reviewed by Jane O\'Grady

The Thistle and the Crescent
Bashir Maan
Reviewed by Rennie McOwan

Continent’s awkward partnership
A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair
Stephen Wall
Reviewed by David Goodall

The Duel: Castlereagh, Canning and deadly Cabinet rivalry
Giles Hunt
Reviewed by Paul ffolkes Davis

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House
Kate Summerscale
Reviewed by Catherine Pepinster

The Séance
John Harwood
Reviewed by Tom Fleming

The World Is What It Is: the authorised biography of V.S. Naipaul
Patrick French
Reviewed by James Ferguson

Living in the material world
On Aquinas
Herbert McCabe OP
Reviewed by Timothy McDermott

The Realm: an unfashionable essay on the conversion of England
Aidan Nichols OP
Reviewed by David Goodall

Salvation for All: God’s other peoples
Gerald O’Collins SJ
Reviewed by David Burrell

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