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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueMilosevic: a biographyAdam LeBor Reviewed by Christopher Cviic Bloomsbury, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The Conclave: a sometimes secret and occasionally bloody history of papal elections Michael Walsh Reviewed by Eamon Duffy Canterbury Press, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 John Lingard and the Pursuit of Historical Truth Edwin Jones Reviewed by Peter Phillips Sussex Academic Press, £60 Tablet bookshop price £54 The Journals of Mary Butts Ed. Nathalie Blondel Reviewed by Jeremy Hooker Yale University Press, £30 Tablet bookshop price £27 The Lucky Ones Rachel Cusk Reviewed by Julian Gibbs Fourth Estate, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 The Priory Dorothy Whipple Reviewed by Matthew Dennison Persephone, £10 Tablet bookshop price £9 Previous weeks reviewsMartin Luther King JrPeter J. Ling Reviewed by Leslie Griffiths Routledge, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Open Government Ed. Stephen Platten Reviewed by John Hunt Canterbury Press, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 A Kind of Journal P.J. Kavanagh Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Carcanet, £14.95 Tablet bookshop price £13.45 101 Questions and Answers on Vatican II Maureen Sullivan Reviewed by Robert Kaiser Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press , £11.50 Tablet bookshop price £10.35 Sr Maureen Sullivan’s book on the Second Vatican Council comes across as more a lively conversation with her college students – warm, candid, enthusiastic, and extremely well-informed ...  The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs BBC Radio Collection, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 The life of Pi Yann Martell Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Harper-Collins, £tapes 12.99 CDs 14.99 Tablet bookshop price £tapes 11.70 CDs 13.50 Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs BBC Radio Collection, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £9.90 Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self Claire Tomalin Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Penguin, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the new world order Robert Kagan Reviewed by David Goodall Atlantic Books, £10 Tablet bookshop price £9 Global Disorder
Robert Harvey Does the war in Iraq mark the destruction of an existing world order or signal ... Global Disorder Robert Harvey Reviewed by David Goodall Constable, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Ahead of the Class: how an aspiring headmistress gave children back their future Marie Stubbs Reviewed by John Rae John Murray, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Gate François Bizot Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer Harvill, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Reason of Things A. C. Grayling Reviewed by Max de Gaynesford Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Piety Proclaimed: an introduction to places of worship in Victorian England James Stevens Curl Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Cattlin Historical Publications, £16.95 Tablet bookshop price £15.25 China’s New Rulers: the secret files Eds Andrew J. Nathan and Bruce Gilley Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer Granta Books, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Published just before the fourth generation of China’s post-revolutionary leaders assumed power, this book is based on reports to members of the outgoing Politburo on the candidates ... Straw Dogs John Gray Reviewed by Max de Gaynesford Granta publications, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Landscapes of Memory: a Holocaust girlhood remembered Ruth Kluger Reviewed by Alexandra Hudson Bloomsbury, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 A Wonderful Little Girl: the true story of Sarah Jacob the Welsh Fasting Girl Sian Busby Reviewed by Catherine Pepinster Short Books, £7.99 Tablet bookshop price £7.20 The Diaries of A. L. Rowse Ed. Richard Ollard Reviewed by John Jolliffe Allen Lane, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Mistress Class Michèle Roberts Reviewed by David McLaurin Little, Brown, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 An Act of Treachery Ann Widdecombe Reviewed by Piers McGrandle Orion, £6.99 Tablet bookshop price £6.30 Small World Martin Suter Reviewed by Piers McGrandle Vintage, £6.99 Tablet bookshop price £6.30 The Cadence of Grass Thomas McGuane Reviewed by Piers McGrandle Vintage, £6.99 Tablet bookshop price £6.30 Correction Thomas Berhard Reviewed by Piers McGrandle Vintage, £6.99 Tablet bookshop price £6.30 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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