Book reviewed in this issue

Three entwined siblings
House of Wits: an intimate portrait of the James family
Paul Fisher
Reviewed by P. J. Kavanagh

Narrative Theology and Moral Theology
Alexander Lucie-Smith
Reviewed by James F. Keenan

God’s Companions: reimagining Christian ethics
Samuel Wells
Reviewed by James F. Keenan

Samuel Johnson
Peter Martin
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

The Messiah
Marek Halter
Reviewed by James Kelly

The Occitan War: a military and political history of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218
Laurence W. Marvin
Reviewed by Daniel Power

A Most Holy War: the Albigensian Crusade and the battle for Christendom
Mark Gregory Pegg
Reviewed by Daniel Power

Previous weeks reviews

Merriment, prayer and learning
A Daughter’s Love: Thomas and Margaret More
John Guy
Reviewed by Lucy Wooding

River Diary
Ronald Blythe
Reviewed by Ann Wroe

Franciscan Spirituality: following St Francis today
Brother Ramon SSF
Reviewed by Frances Teresa Downing

Bad Catholics
James Green
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Seven Days to Live
Nick Yarris
Reviewed by Terry Philpot

Beyond academic boxes
Theology for Pilgrims
Nicholas Lash
Reviewed by David Burrell

Terror and Consent
Philip Bobbitt
Reviewed by Brian Wicker

Collected Poems
Kathleen Raine
Reviewed by Michael Glover

The Informers
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Reviewed by Jimmy Burns

A Fraction of the Whole
Steve Toltz
Reviewed by Andy Bull

Flourishing conditions for terror
Descent into Chaos: how the war against Islamic extremism is being lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid
Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer

Women as Bishops
Ed. James Rigney with Mark D. Chapman
Reviewed by Theo Hobson

Country of the Grand
Gerard Donovan
Reviewed by Rose Gaete

Semi-Invisible Man: the life of Norman Lewis
Julian Evans
Reviewed by Michael Barber

Ever attentive to grace
The Duty of Delight: the diaries of Dorothy Day
Robert Ellsberg
Reviewed by James Martin

The Prodigal Tongue
Mark Abley
Reviewed by Dot Wordsworth

Novel About My Wife
Emily Perkins
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

What Do Catholics Believe?
Léonie Caldecott
Reviewed by Francesca Murphy

Two Cures for Love
Wendy Cope
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Collected Poems
Anthony Thwaite
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Selected Poems
Wallace Stevens
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Selected poems
Allen Ginsberg
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Selected Poems
Edwin Muir
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Selected Poems
Eileen Ni Chuilleanain
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Fragments against ruins
Reading David Jones
Thomas Dilworth
Reviewed by Fernando Cervantes

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