Book reviewed in this issue

The Silent Takeover
Noreena Hertz
Reviewed by Terry O'Sullivan
William Heinemann, £12.99
Tablet bookshop price £10.99

Ottoman Jerusalem: the living city, 1517-1917
Sylvia Auld and Robert Hillenbrand
Reviewed by Trevor Mostyn
Published on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem by Al Tajir World of Islam Trust, £147
Tablet bookshop price £not available

Verse&c./ Poems and Prose/ Selected Poems/ Travellers: poems by George Mackay Brown
Oliver Bernard/ Georg Trakl/ Thomas Blackburn/ Ed. Archie Bevan and Brian Murray
Reviewed by Robert Nye
Anvil Press/ Libris/ Carcanet/ John Murray, £9.95/ 40/14.95 pbk/ 8.95/ 10.99
Tablet bookshop price £8.95/ 39/13.95 pbk/ 7.95/ 8.99

Dialogues of the Dead/ A Sea of Troubles/ The Richmond Diary/ The Cat who Smelled a Rat
Reginald Hill/ Donna Leon/ Peter Rawlinson/ Lilian Jackson Braun
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune
HarperCollins/Heinemann / Constable/ Headline, £16.99/ 15.99/ 16.99/ 17.99/
Tablet bookshop price £14.99/ 13.99/ 14.99/ 15.99/

Shakespeares England: life in Elizabethan and Jacobean times
Ed by R. E. Pritchard
Reviewed by Crispin Jackson
Sutton, £12.99
Tablet bookshop price £10.99

Darkness Visible: a memoir of madness
William Styron
Reviewed by Crispin Jackson
Vintage, £5.99
Tablet bookshop price £4.99

Christie Malrys Own Double-Entry
B. S. Johnson
Reviewed by Mary Emma Baxter
Picador, £6.99
Tablet bookshop price £4.99

The Siege
Helen Dunmore
Reviewed by Mary Gibson
Viking, £16.99
Tablet bookshop price £14.99

My Days: a memoir
R.K. Narayan
Reviewed by Crispin Jackson
Picador, £6.99
Tablet bookshop price £4.99

Fowlers End
Gerald Kersh
Reviewed by Crispin Jackson
Harvill, £6.99
Tablet bookshop price £4.99

Previous weeks reviews

High Art Lite: British art in the 1990s
Julian Stallabrass
Reviewed by Piers McGrandle
Verso, £12
Tablet bookshop price £10

Inside Notting Hill
Miranda Davies and Sarah Anderson
Reviewed by Piers McGrandle
Portobello Publishing, £9.99
Tablet bookshop price £9.99

Granta: the first 21 years

Reviewed by Piers McGrandle
Granta, £9.99
Tablet bookshop price £7.99

Bad Blood
Lorna Sage
Reviewed by Piers McGrandle
Fourth Estate, £6.99
Tablet bookshop price £4.99

The Fourth Hand
John Irving
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh
Bloomsbury, £16.99
Tablet bookshop price £14.99

Life Style - a parable of sharing
A.H.Dammers
Reviewed by Walter Schwarz
Jon Carpenter, £11.99
Tablet bookshop price £11.49

Hadrian the Seventh
Fr Rolfe (Baron Corvo)
Reviewed by David McLaurin
New York Review of Books, £8.99
Tablet bookshop price £6.99

J. Gaudí: the biography
Gijs van Hensbergen
Reviewed by Simon Kuper
HarperCollins, £24.99
Tablet bookshop price £22.99

Sliced Iguana: travels in unknown Mexico; Sahara Man: travels with the Tuareg; Black Earth City
Isabella Tree; Jeremy Keenan; Charlotte Hobson
Reviewed by Nicholas Fearn
Hamish Hamilton; John Murray; Granta, £17.99; 18.99; 12.99
Tablet bookshop price £15.99; 17.99; 10.99

Palestine Twilight
Edward Fox
Reviewed by Michael Adams
HarperCollins, £19.99
Tablet bookshop price £16.99

The Pale Gold of Alaska
Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
Reviewed by David McLaurin
The Blackstaff Press Ltd, £12.99
Tablet bookshop price £10.99

No Drinking No Dancing No Doctors
Martina Evans
Reviewed by David McLaurin
Bloomsbury, £6.99
Tablet bookshop price £4.99

Three to See The King
Magnus Mills
Reviewed by David McLaurin
Flamingo, £9.99
Tablet bookshop price £7.99

Ice Cream
Helen Dunmore
Reviewed by David McLaurin
Penguin, £6.99
Tablet bookshop price £4.99

Cherry
Mary Karr
Reviewed by Shirley Lancaster
Picador, £14.99
Tablet bookshop price £12.99

Self Abuse
Jonathan Self
Reviewed by Penelope Dening
John Murray, £16.99
Tablet bookshop price £14.99

A Cavalier Irishman: the Ulick OConnor diaries, 1970-1981

Reviewed by Mary Kenny
John Murray, £22.50
Tablet bookshop price £21.50

The Stone of Heaven: the secret history of imperial green jade
Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark
Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20
Tablet bookshop price £17

Elie Wiesel and the Politics of Moral Leadership
Mark Chmiel
Reviewed by Julius Purcell
Temple University Press, £32.95
Tablet bookshop price £32

The Catholic Church in Spain 1875-1998
William J. Callahan
Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh
Catholic University of America, £45.50
Tablet bookshop price £45

Genetic Dilemmas: reproductive technologies, parental choices, and childrens futures
Dean S. Davis
Reviewed by Helen Watt
Routledge, £50, £13.99 (pbk)
Tablet bookshop price £49 (£13.99)

This book is likely to appeal to a very wide market. It is written in a pleasant, open style and is attractively designed. The cover shows a baby and some test-tubes, shot through ...

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

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