Book reviewed in this issue

The Mobilisation of Shame: a world view of human rights
Robert F. Drinan SJ
Reviewed by Conor Gearty
Yale University Press, £20
Tablet bookshop price £20

Henry VIII: king and court
Alison Weir
Reviewed by Selina O'Grady
Jonathan Cape, £20
Tablet bookshop price £19

Channel Crossing: one mans voyage around and across the English Channel
Sebastian Smith
Reviewed by Adam Nicolson
Hamish Hamilton, £14.99
Tablet bookshop price £13.99

The Gentlewomans Companion or A Guide to the Female Sex
Hannah Woolley
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge
Prospect Books, £25
Tablet bookshop price £23

Home Comforts: the art and science of keeping house
Cheryl Mendelson
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge
Cassells, £25
Tablet bookshop price £23

Chasing the Cherry Blossom: a spiritual journey through Japan
Lowell Sheppard
Reviewed by James Ferguson
Lion, £8.99
Tablet bookshop price £8.49

A Late Education: episodes in a life
Alan Moorehead
Reviewed by James Ferguson
Granta, £7.99
Tablet bookshop price £6.99

Blue Highways: a journey into America
William Least Heat-Moon
Reviewed by James Ferguson
Pimlico, £12.50
Tablet bookshop price £11.50

Previous weeks reviews

Inheritance
Livi Michael
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs
Penguin, £6.99
Tablet bookshop price £5.99

Fred and Edie
Jill Dawson
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs
Sceptre, £6.99
Tablet bookshop price £5.99

The Perfect Jesuit
Furio Monicelli
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs
Penguin, £7.99
Tablet bookshop price £6.99

The Romantics
Pankaj Mishra
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs
Picador, £6.99
Tablet bookshop price £5.99

Minding Children
William Wall
Reviewed by Mary Gibson
Sceptre, £16.99
Tablet bookshop price £13.99

Licks of Love
John Updike
Reviewed by Tom Aitken
Hamish Hamilton, £16.99
Tablet bookshop price £13.99

Nigella Bites
Nigella Lawson
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh
Chatto & Windus, £20
Tablet bookshop price £17

Good Things in England
Florence White
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh
Persephone, £10
Tablet bookshop price £10

The Country Housewifes Family Companion
William Ellis
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh
Prospect Books, £30
Tablet bookshop price £29

The Voice of Victorian Sex: Arthur H. Clough, 1819-1861; The Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling 1862-1939; The Hungarian who Walked to Heaven: Alexander Csoma de Koros, 1784-1842; Last Action Hero of the British Empire: Cdr John Kerans, 1915-1985; Material Girl: Bess of Hardwick, 1527-1608; Inventor of the Disposable Culture: King Camp Gillette, 1855-1932
Rupert Christiansen; Adam Nicolson; Edward Fox; Nigel Farndale; Kate Hubbard; Tim Dowling
Reviewed by James Ferguson
Short Books (dist Faber), £4.99 each
Tablet bookshop price £4.99 each

Reaping the Whirlwind: the Taliban in Afghanistan
Michael Griffin
Reviewed by James McCarter
Pluto, £19.99
Tablet bookshop price £19

My Dream of You
Nuala O'Faolain
Reviewed by David McLaurin
Michael Joseph, £12.99
Tablet bookshop price £10.99

Music Publishing and Patronage: C.F. Peters, 1800 to the Holocaust
Irene Lawford-Hinrichsen
Reviewed by John Amis
Edition Press, £25
Tablet bookshop price £21

The Little Locksmith: a memoir
Katherine Butler Hathaway
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge
Aurum Press, £9.99
Tablet bookshop price £7.99

The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Ed.John Hayes, Ed. John Ingamells and John Edgecumbe
Reviewed by Noonie Minogue
Yale University Press, £30
Tablet bookshop price £29

Our Word is our Weapon
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
Reviewed by James Painter
Serpents Tail, £20
Tablet bookshop price £17

The Holocaust on Trial: history, justice and the David Irving libel case
D. D. Guttenplan
Reviewed by Emma Klein
Granta, £17.99
Tablet bookshop price £14.99

Russia and the Russians: a history from Rus to the Russian Federation
Geoffrey Hosking
Reviewed by Dominic Lieven
Allen Lane, £25
Tablet bookshop price £22

Twelve Scenes of Malta
Sarah Lawson
Reviewed by Anthony Haynes
Hearing Eye, £3
Tablet bookshop price £3

Nevermore
Andrew McNeillie
Reviewed by Anthony Haynes
Oxford, £6.95
Tablet bookshop price £6.95

Selected Poems
Alan Shapiro
Reviewed by Anthony Haynes
Carcanet, £12.95
Tablet bookshop price £12.95

Selected Poems
Robert Minhinnick
Reviewed by Anthony Haynes
Carcanet, £6.95
Tablet bookshop price £6.95

Red Dust
Ma Jian
Reviewed by Julia Lovell
Chatto & Windus, £12
Tablet bookshop price £10

Madrid
Elizabeth Nash
Reviewed by Jimmy Burns
Signal Books, £12
Tablet bookshop price £11

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