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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueThe Carpet Wars: ten years in Afghanistan, Pakistan and IraqChristopher Kremmer Reviewed by Edmund Waite HarperCollins, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.19 The Hitler Emigrés Daniel Snowman Reviewed by Francis Beckett Chatto & Windus, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Ambrose: De Officiis Ed. with introduction, translation and commentary by Ivor J. Davidson Reviewed by Bernard Green OUP, £120 Tablet bookshop price £108 Speech! Speech! Geoffrey Hill Reviewed by Anthony Haynes Penguin, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £8.99 The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor’s Disappearance Benjamin Anastas Reviewed by David McLaurin Picador, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.49 A High Wind in Jamaica Richard Hughes Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge Vintage Classics, £6.99 Tablet bookshop price £6.29 Previous weeks reviewsThe Age of Van Eyck: the Mediterranean world and early Netherlandish painting 1430-1530Till-Holger Borchert Reviewed by Timothy Wilson-Smith Thames & Hudson, £30 Tablet bookshop price £ Rosamond Lehmann: a life Selina Hastings Reviewed by Mary Emma Baxter Chatto & Windus, £25 Tablet bookshop price £ The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargas Llosa Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh Faber, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £ Orwell’s Victory Christopher Hitchens Reviewed by Crispin Jackson Allen Lane, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £ Religion and Social Crisis in Japan: understanding Japanese society through the Aum affair Eds Robert J. Kisala and Mark R. Mullins Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer Palgrave, £47.50 Tablet bookshop price £ A House in the Country Jocelyn Playfair Reviewed by Sara Allerton Persephone Books, £10 Tablet bookshop price £ War Story Sara Hely Reviewed by David McLaurin Hodder Headline, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £ Who’s Sorry Now? Howard Jacobson Reviewed by Patrick Gilmore Jonathan Cape, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £ The Invasion Handbook Tom Paulin Reviewed by James O’Brien Faber, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £ Religion, Theology and the Social Sciences Richard H. Roberts Reviewed by Robert Markus Cambridge University Press, £45 Tablet bookshop price £ Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile’s hidden history Andy Beckett Reviewed by James Painter Faber, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £ Jihad: the trail of political Islam Gilles Kepel Reviewed by Scott Thomas I.B. Tauris, £25 Tablet bookshop price £ Unholy War: terror in the name of Islam John L. Esposito Reviewed by Scott Thomas Oxford University Press, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £ What Went Wrong?: the clash between Islam and modernity in the Middle East Bernard Lewis Reviewed by Scott Thomas Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £ Unholy War: terror in the name of Islam Jihad: the trail of political Islam  Southern Italy H.V. Morton Reviewed by Michael Adams Methuen, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £ True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey read by Rupert Degas Reviewed by Julian Gibbs Faber Penguin Audio books, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £ Strong Poison Dorothy L. Sayers, read by Michael Cochrane Reviewed by Julian Gibbs Penguin Audio books, £8.99 Tablet bookshop price £ Marie Antoinette Antonia Fraser, read by Lindsay Duncan Reviewed by Julian Gibbs Orion Audio Books, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £ A Series of Unfortunate Events (Book the Second: the reptile room) by Lemony Snickert, read by Tim Curry Reviewed by Julian Gibbs HarperCollins Audio, £8.99 Tablet bookshop price £ The Deadly Space Between Patricia Duncker Reviewed by Amanda Hopkinson Picador, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £ The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare Eds Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells Reviewed by Robert Tanitch Oxford University Press, £30 Tablet bookshop price £ After Shakespeare Ed. John Gross Reviewed by Robert Tanitch Oxford University Press, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £ Pius XII and the Holocaust: understanding the controversy J. Sanchez Reviewed by John Pollard Catholic University of America Press, £19.95 Tablet bookshop price £ Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust In the heat of the present battle over Pius XII’s wartime role, ... Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust Eds Carol Rittner and John K. Roth Reviewed by John Pollard Continuum, £40 pbk 16.95 Tablet bookshop price £ Please visit The Tablet Bookshop. |
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