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Religion in a political minefield
Christianity in India: from beginnings to the present Free Article
Robert Eric Frykenberg
Reviewed by David Goodall


The Sorcerer’s Tale: faith and fraud in Tudor England
Alec Ryrie
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright


The Private Patient
P.D. James
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune


Wheel
Michael O’Neill
Reviewed by An Wroe


Hidden Children of the Holocaust
Suzanne Vromen
Reviewed by Alexander Lucie-Smith


The Believers
Zoë Heller
Reviewed by Kathy Watson


Previous weeks reviews

A long, sentimental journey
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: on the tracks of The Great Railway Bazaar Free Article
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

Why race is not the problem
Strange Fruit Free Article
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 Free Article
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? Free Article
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 Free Article
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


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