Book reviewed in this issue

The selfish Altruist
Tony Vaux
Reviewed by Fiona Fox
Earthscan, £18.99
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The Real Mrs Miniver
Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Reviewed by Matthew Dennison
John Murray, £17.99
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In Ruins
Christopher Woodward
Reviewed by John Dickie
Chatto & Windus, £12.99
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The Gospel According to The Simpsons
Mark Pinsky
Reviewed by Ian Bradley
Westminster John Knox Press, £7.99
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Carry Me Across the Water
Ethan Canin
Reviewed by David McLaurin
Bloomsbury, £16.99
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Oxygen
Andrew Miller
Reviewed by Timothy Wilson-Smith
Sceptre, £14.99
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Previous weeks reviews

Eating England
Hattie Ellis
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge
Mitchell, £14.99
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Trifle
Alan Davidson and Helen Saberi
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge
Prospect Books, £8.99
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Kitchen Essays
Agnes Jekyll
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge
Persephone Books, £10
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Bold Knife and Fork
M.F.K. Fisher
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge
Vintage, £7.99
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The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: volume 1 1920–1945
Eds Albert J. Devlin and Nancy M. Tischler
Reviewed by Robert Tanitch
Oberon Books, £25
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The Dressing Station: a surgeon’s odyssey
Jonathan Kaplan
Reviewed by James Le Fanu
Picador, £15.99
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Taking Stock: confessions of a city priest
Victor Stock
Reviewed by Alan Webster
HarperCollins, £15.99
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Faith beyond Resentment: fragments Catholic and gay
James Alison
Reviewed by Rowan Williams
Darton, Longman & Todd, £10.95
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Soil and Soul: people versus corporate power
Alastair McIntosh
Reviewed by Walter Schwarz
Aurum Press, £17.99
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If I Don’t Know
Wendy Cope
Reviewed by Anthony Haynes
Faber & Faber, £8.99
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The Echoing Green
Gladys Mary Coles
Reviewed by Anthony Haynes
Flambard, £7.50
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Tender Taxes
Jo Shapcott
Reviewed by Anthony Haynes
Faber & Faber, £8.99
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Oracle Bones
James Harpur
Reviewed by Anthony Haynes
Anvil Press, £7.95
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St Francis of Assisi
G.K. Chesterton
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh
Continuum, £12.99
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Half a Life
V.S. Naipaul
Reviewed by David McLaurin
Picador, £16.99
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The Letters of Samuel Wesley
Philip Olleson
Reviewed by Leslie Griffiths
Oxford University Press, £75
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Further Requirements: interviews, broadcasts, statements and book reviews 1952–85
Philip Larkin
Reviewed by Faber & Faber
Ed. Anthony Thwaite, £25
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Flaubert: a life
Geoffrey Wall
Reviewed by Hilary Davies
Faber & Faber, £20
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The Forgiveness of Nature
Graham Harvey
Reviewed by Ronald Blythe
Cape, £17.99
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The Unfinest Hour: Britain and the destruction of Bosnia
Brendan Simms
Reviewed by Branka Magas
Penguin, £18.99
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 precipitated the vision of a 'Europe whole and free' to be built upon shared foundations of human rights and parliamentary democracy. But it was ...

The Making of the English Bible
Benson Bobrick
Reviewed by Adam Nicholson
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20
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The Creation Story/ The Story of Noah and the Ark/ Lester Gets Lost/ Miracles - Wonders Jesus Worked / Parables - Stories Jesus Told
Illus Norman Messenger/ Giuliano Ferri/ Simon Smith/ Mary Hoffman/ Jackei Morris
Reviewed by Judith Rice
DK/ Barefoot Books/ Marshall Pickering/ Frances Lincoln, £10.99/ 9.99/ 9.99/ 10.99/ 5.99
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Wisdom for the Journey
Serge Bolshakoff
Reviewed by Margaret Slif
St Paul's, £14.95
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Hail, Holy Queen: the Mother of God in the World of God
Scott Hahn
Reviewed by Margaret Slif
Darton, Longman & Todd, £10.95
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