Book reviewed in this issue

The limits of factual morality
The Secular Conscience: why belief belongs in public life
Austin Dacey
Reviewed by David Martin

Elizabeth in the Garden: a story of love, rivalry and spectacular design
Trea Martyn
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

Blonde Roots
Bernadine Evaristo
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

Anglicans in Rome: a history
Frederick Bliss
Reviewed by Peter Groves

Previous weeks reviews

The case for God made man
Was Jesus God?
Richard Swinburne
Reviewed by Fergus Kerr

So I Have Thought of You: the letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
Ed. Terence Dooley
Reviewed by John Jolliffe

Tears of the Desert
Halima Bashir and Damien Lewis
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Peter Ackroyd
Reviewed by Tom Fleming

The Bible for Sinners: interpretation in the present time
Christopher Rowland and Jonathan Roberts
Reviewed by Nicholas King

Going straight to the top
Handel: the man and his music
Jonathan Keates
Reviewed by Brian Morton

The Correspondence of James Parker Coghlan (1731-1800)
Ed. Frans Blom, Jos Blom, Frans Korsten and Geoffrey Scott
Reviewed by Michael Walsh

The Atmospheric Railway
Shena Mackay
Reviewed by Daniel Jeffreys

The English Parsonage in the Early Nineteenth Century
Timothy Brittain-Catlin
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Looking back to look forward
Vatican II: Renewal Within Tradition
Matthew L. Lamb and Matthew Levering (eds.)
Reviewed by Lewis Ayres

Resurrection: the power of God for Christians and Jews
Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D. Levenson
Reviewed by Gerald O\'Collins

Little Marvel and Other Stories
Wendy Perriam
Reviewed by Daniel Jeffreys

Grub Street Irregular
Jeremy Lewis
Reviewed by Michael Barber

The Birthday Present
Barbara Vine
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune

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

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

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