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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issuePulling the Devils Kingdom Down: the Salvation Army in Victorian BritainPamela J. Walker Reviewed by Tom Aitken University of California Press, £24.95 Tablet bookshop price £22.95 Paris Between Empires, 1814-1852 Philip Mansel Reviewed by Timothy Wilson-Smith John Murray, £25.00 Tablet bookshop price £23.50 Gods House at Ewelme: life, devotion and architecture in a fifteenth-centry almshouse John Goodall Reviewed by Bernard Green Ashgate, £49.95 Tablet bookshop price £49.00 Plants and Plant Lore in Ancient Greece J.E.Raven Reviewed by Noonie Minogue Leopard's Head Press Ltd, £25.00 Tablet bookshop price £24.50 Back When We Were Grown Ups Anne Tyler Reviewed by Piers McGrandle Chatto & Windus, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.49 In Search of London H.V.Morton Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge Methuen, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £7.99 The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the cleansing of the Victorian metropolis Stephen Halliday Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge Sutton, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £7.99 The London Rich: the creation of a great city from 1666 to the present Peter Thorold Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge Penguin, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £10.99 London: a social history Roy Porter Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge Penguin, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £7.99 Previous weeks reviewsBlue Highways: a journey into AmericaWilliam Least Heat-Moon Reviewed by James Ferguson Pimlico, £12.50 Tablet bookshop price £11.50 A Late Education: episodes in a life Alan Moorehead Reviewed by James Ferguson Granta, £7.99 Tablet bookshop price £6.99 Chasing the Cherry Blossom: a spiritual journey through Japan Lowell Sheppard Reviewed by James Ferguson Lion, £8.99 Tablet bookshop price £8.49 Home Comforts: the art and science of keeping house Cheryl Mendelson Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge Cassells, £25 Tablet bookshop price £23 The Gentlewomans Companion or A Guide to the Female Sex Hannah Woolley Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge Prospect Books, £25 Tablet bookshop price £23 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 Henry VIII: king and court Alison Weir Reviewed by Selina O'Grady Jonathan Cape, £20 Tablet bookshop price £19 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 Minding Children William Wall Reviewed by Mary Gibson Sceptre, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.99 The Romantics Pankaj Mishra Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Picador, £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 Fred and Edie Jill Dawson Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Sceptre, £6.99 Tablet bookshop price £5.99 Inheritance Livi Michael Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Penguin, £6.99 Tablet bookshop price £5.99 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 Under his Very Windows: the Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy Susan Zuccotti Reviewed by Owen Chadwick Yale University Press, £19.95 Tablet bookshop price £19 The title of this book is a quotation from a well-known letter of Ernst von Weizsäcker, former Nazi under-secretary for foreign affairs in Berlin. In October 1943, he was German ...  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 Please visit The Tablet Bookshop. |
 Elena Curti The clear message that emerged from the symposium on child sexual abuse held in Rome from ... Is the Church too slow in recognising that academies are the future for Catholic schools?Christopher Lamb According to the chairman of governors at the Cardinal Vaughan School, west London, one ... Goodwin the scapegoatElena Curti There was an old Sixties TV series, Branded, about a disgraced soldier that always began ...
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