Book reviewed in this issue

The Predicament of Postmodern Theology
Gavin Hyman
Reviewed by Fergus Kerr
Westminster John Knox Press, £14.99
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Unholy War
David I. Kertzer
Reviewed by Michael Walsh
Macmillan, £20.00
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Kierkegaard: a biography
Alastair Hannay
Reviewed by George Pattison
Cambridge University Press, £30.00
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The Making of the Magdalen: preaching and popular devotion in the later Middle Ages
Katherine Ludwig Jansen
Reviewed by Susan Haskins
Princeton, £37.95, £13.95 pbk
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Before We Say Goodbye: preparing for a good death
Ray Simpson
Reviewed by Ian Bradley
Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99
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Crossing: reclaiming the landscape of our lives
Mark Barrett
Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh
Darton, Longman & Todd, £8.95
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The Last Supper according to Martha and Mary
Tina Beattie
Reviewed by Joanne Mosley
Burns & Oates, £9.99
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Prayer, Protest, Power: the spirituality of Julie Billiart today
Myra Poole
Reviewed by Margaret Silf
Canterbury Press, £11.99
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Spirituality of Struggle
Andrew D. Mayes
Reviewed by Margaret Silf
SPCK, £8.99
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Things You Get for Free
Michael McGirr
Reviewed by Margaret Silf
Azure, London, £9.99
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Pearl Beyond Price: the attractive Jesus
David Day
Reviewed by Margaret Silf
HarperCollins, £7.99
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Previous weeks reviews

Getting There
Manjula Padmanabham
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs
Picador, £6.99
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Seduction and Betrayal
Elizabeth Hardwick
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs
New York Review Books, £7.99
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Them: adventures with extremists
Jon Ronson
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs
Picador, £7.99
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Fanny Burney: a biography
Claire Harman
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs
Flamingo, £8.99
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Embers
Sandor Marai
Reviewed by David McLaurin
Viking, £12.99
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Best Sermons Ever
Ed. Christopher Howse
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh
Continuum, £16.99
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Something to Declare
Julian Barnes
Reviewed by Patrick Gilmore
Picador, £8.99
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A Pelican in the Wilderness: hermits, solitaries and recluses
Isabel Colegate
Reviewed by Bernard Green
HarperCollins, £16.99
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Savage Girls and Wild Boys: a history of feral children
Michael Newton
Reviewed by Jill Paton Walsh
Faber, £12.99
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The Secret History of Modernism
C.K. Stead
Reviewed by Tom Aitken
Harvill, £14.99
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Horace: a life
Peter Levi
Reviewed by Timothy Wilson-Smith
Duckbats, £6.99
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Amphibious Thing
Lucy Moore
Reviewed by Timothy Wilson-Smith
Penguin Books, £6.99
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Good Intentions
Agnès Desarthe
Reviewed by Timothy Wilson-Smith
Flamingo, £9.99
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Vermeer’s Milkmaid and other stories
Manuel Rivas
Reviewed by Timothy Wilson-Smith
Harvill, £9.99
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Tolkien: a biography
Michael White
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards
Little, Brown, £16.99
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Art in the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773
Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Reviewed by Peter Davidson
University of Toronto Press, £45
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The Queen: Elizabeth II and the monarchy
Ben Pimlott
Reviewed by Ian Bradley
HarperCollins, £24.99
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Royal: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Robert Lacey

The Monarchy: an oral history of Elizabeth II
Deborah and Gerald Strober

Together, these three books provide ...

Royal: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Robert Lacey
Reviewed by Ian Bradley
Little, Brown, £20
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The Monarchy: an oral history of Elizabeth II
Deborah and Gerald Strober
Reviewed by Ian Bradley
Hutchinson, £20
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Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia’s mission to the Shah of Persia
Laurence Kelly
Reviewed by John Jolliffe
.B. Tauris, £25
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Sea Room: an island life
Adam Nicolson
Reviewed by Mary Emma Baxter
HarperCollins, £14.99
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Morte d’Urban
J.F. Powers
Reviewed by Terry Philpot
New York Review Books, £7.99
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Swan River: a family memoir
David Reynolds
Reviewed by David McLaurin
Picador, £15.99
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A Treasury of Catholic Verse
Ed. Russell Sparkes
Reviewed by Alfred Latham-Koenig
St Paul's, £11.95
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