Book reviewed in this issue

A long, sentimental journey
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: on the tracks of The Great Railway Bazaar
Paul Theroux
Reviewed by James Ferguson

Munich: the 1938 appeasement crisis
David Faber
Reviewed by Richard Bassett

McKie’s Gazetteer
David McKie
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

A Strange Eventful History: the dramatic lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their remarkable families
Michael Holroyd
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge

Origins: a memoir
Amin Maalouf
Reviewed by Mary Emma Baxter

John
Niall Williams
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh

The Villa Diana: travels in post-war Italy
Alan Moorehead
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly

Bob Marley: a life
Garry Steckles
Reviewed by Ian Thomson

Previous weeks reviews

Why race is not the problem
Strange Fruit
Kenan Malik
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh

Not Dead Yet: a manifesto for old age
Julia Neuberger
Reviewed by Terry Philpot

The House of Wittgenstein
Alexander Waugh
Reviewed by Richard Bassett

The Pages
Murray Bail
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

Taj Mahal
Giles Tillotson
Reviewed by Krishna Dutta

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

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

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