Book reviewed in this issue

Before the rumble of a distant drum
The Morbid Age: Britain between the wars
Richard Overy
Reviewed by Michael Barber

Memoirs of ‘a Very Dangerous Man’
Donald Reeves
Reviewed by Christipher Fildes

The Enemy of the Good
Michael Arditti
Reviewed by Peter Stanford

No Going Back: letters to Pope Benedict XVI on the Holocaust, Jewish-Christian relations and Israel
Carol Rittner and Stephen Smith
Reviewed by Edward Stourton

The Canterbury Tales
Peter Ackroyd
Reviewed by Robert Nye

The Mystery of Faith
Tadeusz Dajczer
Reviewed by Bryan Storey

Previous weeks reviews

Pilate's question revisited
What is truth? from the Academy to the Vatican
John Rist
Reviewed by Lewis Ayres

Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire: a confidential report
Iain Sinclair
Reviewed by Marcus Tanner

Sisters of Sinai: how two lady adventurers found the hidden gospels
Janet Soskice
Reviewed by Jane Williams

The Old Joke
Reina James
Reviewed by Robert Bathurst

Grimoires: a history of magic books
Owen Davies
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

Not so easy alliances
Two Faiths, One Banner: when Muslims marched with Christians across Europe’s battlegrounds
Ian Almond
Reviewed by Robert Carver

For All the Tea in China: espionage, empire and the secret formula for the world’s favourite drink
Sarah Rose
Reviewed by Adrian Brewer

The Sisters Who Would be Queen: the tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey
Leanda de Lisle
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh

Lark and Termite
Jayne Anne Phillips
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo
Michael McCarthy
Reviewed by John Wilkins

Teenagers: a natural history
David Bainbridge
Reviewed by Ian Thomson

The Noonday Demon: a modern woman’s struggle with soulweariness
Kathleen Norris
Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge

And Did Those Feet: walking through 2,000 years of British and Irish history
Charlie Connelly
Reviewed by Sue Gaisford

Philip McCosker
God and Mystery: experience through metaphor and drama
David Brown
Reviewed by Philip McCosker

The Year of Living Biblically: one man’s humble quest to follow the Bible as literally as possible
A.J. Jacobs
Reviewed by Tim Heald

The Kindly Ones
Jonathan Littell
Reviewed by Terry Philpot

The Music Room
William Fiennes
Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge

Light to all nations of the world
Global Catholicism: diversity and change since Vatican II
Ian Linden
Reviewed by Peter Cornwell

Liberation: the bitter road to freedom – Europe 1944-1945
William I. Hitchcock
Reviewed by Richard Bassett

Viva South America!
Oliver Balch
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Strangers
Anita Brookner
Reviewed by Clarissa Burden

Modern Memorial Brasses 1880-2001
David Meara
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Darvin: a life in poems
Ruth Padel
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Life on Earth
Michael Donaghy
Reviewed by Michael Glover

Better than God
Peter Porter
Reviewed by Michael Glover

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