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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueButhelezi: a biographyBen Temkin Reviewed by Piers McGrandle Frank Cass Publishers, £35 Tablet bookshop price £31.10 Yemen: land and people Sarah Searight Reviewed by Christopher Herdon Pallas Athene, £19.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.95 Brian Moore: a biography Patricia Craig Reviewed by James O’Brien Bloomsbury, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The Sacred History of Britain Martin Palmer Reviewed by Christopher Howse Piatkus, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17 The Fox D.H. Lawrence Reviewed by David McLaurin Hesperus Press, £5.99 Tablet bookshop price £5.30 Previous weeks reviewsWordsworth: a life in lettersJuliet Barker Reviewed by Catherine Pepinster Penguin Viking, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Some Luck John Bird Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 A Nation of Empire: the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity Michael E. Meeker Reviewed by David Barchard University of California Press, £24.95 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Post-Byzantine Monuments of the Pontus Anthony Bryer and others Reviewed by David Barchard Ashgate Variorum, £90 Tablet bookshop price £81 Inventing God Nicholas Mosley Reviewed by David McLaurin Secker & Warburg, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Runaway Elizabeth Anna Hart Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Persephone Books, £10 Tablet bookshop price £9 Steps Along Hope Street David Sheppard Reviewed by Nicholas Frayling Hodder & Stoughton, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 “We have lived through some momentous years and have a story to tell”, says David Sheppard – Lord Sheppard of Liverpool. Indeed. He does not attempt to deny his privileged background ...  Michelangelo and the Pope’s ceiling Ross King Reviewed by Timothy Wilson-Smith Chatto & Windus, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 The Death of Spin George Pitcher Reviewed by Francis Beckett John Wiley, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Last Escape John Nichol and Tony Rennell Reviewed by Christopher Herdon Viking, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The Selected Works of Cyril Connolly, Volume I: The Modern Movement. Volume II: The Two Natures Ed. Matthew Connolly Reviewed by Crispin Jackson Picador, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Murderers I have Known Marina Warner Reviewed by Lucy Hannah Chatto &Windus, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 The Gift of Gravity: selected poems 1968-2000 Wendell Berry Reviewed by Anthony Haynes Golgonooza Press, £9.95 Tablet bookshop price £9 The journals of Fanny Parkes Selected and introduced by William Dalrymple Reviewed by Krishna Dutta Sickle Moon Books, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 George Pell Tess Livingstone Reviewed by Michael Whelan Gracewing, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Tess Livingstone writes of the current Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, with an easy style. She brings much experience and skill as a journalist with the Courier Mail in Brisbane ... Sir Walter Raleigh Raleigh Trevelyan Reviewed by William Palmer Penguin Press, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Seven Ages of Paris: portrait of a city Alistair Horne Reviewed by Alain Woodrow Macmillan, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Impossible Love: Ascher Levy’s longing for Germany Roman Frister Reviewed by Emma Klein Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Not Quite Sisters: women with learning difficulties living in convent homes Mary Stuart Reviewed by Terry Philpot Bild, £18.95 Tablet bookshop price £18 Greenery Street Denis Mackail Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune Persephone, £10 Tablet bookshop price £9 After Aquinas: versions of Thomism Fergus Kerr Reviewed by Nicholas Lash Blackwell, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 Alasdair MacIntyre has remarked that it is not easy to be a Thomist. “Partly this is because of the complexity of Aquinas’s work .… And partly it is because so many generations of commentary ... Twelve Cities: a memoir Roy Jenkins Reviewed by David Goodall Macmillan, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 In Search of Fatima: a Palestinian story Ghada Karmi Reviewed by Michael Adams Verso, £16 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 Children of Kali: through India in search of bandits, the Thug cult and the British Raj Kevin Rushby Reviewed by Krishna Dutta Constable Robinson, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 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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