Book reviewed in this issue

Machiavelli of the Ottomans
The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II – conqueror of Constantinople, master of an empire and lord of two seas
John Freely
Reviewed by Robert Carver

Weeds and Wild Flowers: poems
Alice Oswald
Reviewed by Michael Glover

A Sleepwalk on the Severn
Alice Oswald
Reviewed by Michael Glover

The Lady and the Poet
Maeve Haran
Reviewed by Lynn Roberts

Humanism and the Reform of Sacred Music in Early Modern England
Hyun-Ah Kim
Reviewed by Ian Bradley

Roman Catholic Church Music in England, 1791-1914: a handmaid of the liturgy?
T.E. Muir
Reviewed by Ian Bradley

Father Dan: the story of an imperfect priest
Anthea Dove
Reviewed by Barbara Hungin

Previous weeks reviews

Word of God, words of men
The Gospel in Christian Traditions
Ted A. Campbell
Reviewed by Nicholas King

Summer of Blood: the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381
Dan Jones
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

China Cuckoo
Mark Kitto
Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer

The Street Philosopher
Matthew Plampin
Reviewed by Alexander Lucie-Smith

Gray’s Anatomy: selected writings
John Gray
Reviewed by William Charlton

Ratzinger: enigma of a pessimist
The Pontificate of Benedict XVI: its premises and promises
William G. Rusch (ed.)
Reviewed by Rupert Shortt

Understanding Child Abuse: the partners of child abise offenders tell their stories
Terry Philpot
Reviewed by Dorothea Holman

House of Treason: the rise and fall of a Tudor dynasty
Robert Hutchinson
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly

The Winter Vault
Anne Michaels
Reviewed by Peter Stanford

The Adventures of Margery Allingham
Julia Jones
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune

Immigrants to a land of emigrants
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: can Europe be the same with different people in it?
Christopher Caldwell
Reviewed by Marcus Tanner

Through Another Europe: an anthology of travel writing on the Balkans
Andrew Hammond (ed.)
Reviewed by Marcus Tanner

John Calvin and Roman Catholicism: critique and engagement, then and now
Randall C. Zachman (ed.)
Reviewed by Hilmar M. Pabel

Pilgrimage: a spiritual and cultural journey
Ian Bradley
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Reif Larsen
Reviewed by Andy Bull

To the End of Earth: the race to solve polar exploration's greatest mystery
Tom Avery
Reviewed by Adrian Brewer

Brighteningthe Celtic twilight
Blood and Mistletoe: the history of the Druids in Britain
Ronald Hutton
Reviewed by Gwyn Thomas

Americans in Paris: life and death under Nazi occupation 1940-44
Charles Glass
Reviewed by Alain Woodrow

Bannockburn: the triumph of Robert the Bruce
David Cornell
Reviewed by Brendan Smith

A Single Swallow
Horatio Clare
Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge

The Poetic Home: designing the 19th-century domestic interior
Stefan Muthesius
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Reviewed by Clarissa Burden

Zealots who fanned the flames
Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor
Eamon Duffy
Reviewed by Alec Ryrie

Reason, Faith, and Revolution: reflections on the God debate
Terry Eagleton
Reviewed by John Cottingham

An Introduction to Catholicism
Lawrence S. Cunningham
Reviewed by Gerald O'Collins

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