Book reviewed in this issue

Continent on the way to recovery
Africa: altered states, ordinary miracles
Richard Dowden
Reviewed by David Blair

W.H. Auden: Prose Volume III
Ed. Edward Mendelson
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Home
Marilynne Robinson
Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge

Résistance
Agnès Humbert, trans. Barbara Mellor
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly

Hunger
Raymond Tallis
Reviewed by Anthony Daniels

Diaries 1984-1997
James Lees-Milne
Reviewed by Jeremy Lewis

Previous weeks reviews

Religion in a political minefield
Christianity in India: from beginnings to the present
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

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

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

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