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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueFreedom EvolvesDaniel Dennett Reviewed by Michael Bavidge Allen Lane, Penguin , £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Reefer Madness: and other tales from the American underground Eric Schlosser Reviewed by Selina O’Grady Allen Lane, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £10 Fighter Boys: saving Britain 1940 Patrick Bishop Reviewed by Christopher Herdon HarperCollins, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Giving up the Ghost: a memoir Hilary Mantel Reviewed by Michael Estorick Fourth Estate, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Previous weeks reviewsReligion and Conflict in SudanEds Yusuf Fadl Hasan and Richard Gray Reviewed by Paul Gifford UK dist. St Paul Media Centre (190 Kensington High Street, London W8, tel. 020 7937 9591), £10 Tablet bookshop price £9 Mountains of the Mind: a history of a fascination Robert Macfarlane Reviewed by Anthony Kenny Granta Books, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The Paranormal: a bishop investigates Hugh Montefiore Reviewed by David Hay Upfront Publishing, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 The Colour Rose Tremain Reviewed by Tom Aitken Chatto and Windus, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Book Against God James Wood Reviewed by David McLaurin Jonathan Cape, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Journey to Mauritius Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Reviewed by Mian Ridge Signal Books, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 St Augustine Serge Lancel Reviewed by P. J. Kavanagh SCM Press, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Augustine was born, on what is now the border between Algeria and Tunis, in 354 and died, Bishop of Hippo, which is not far from his birthplace, in 430. In 2003, before the invasion ...  The Reformation Patrick Collinson Reviewed by Christopher Haigh Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Roman Catholic Nuns in England and Wales 1800-1937: a social history Barbara Walsh Reviewed by Jane Livesey Irish Academic Press, £32.50 Tablet bookshop price £28 Liberation of the Laity: in search of an accountable Church Paul Lakeland Reviewed by James Keenan Continuum, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Restoring Faith in Reason Eds Laurence Hemming and Susan Parsons Reviewed by SCM Press, £16.95 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Challenge of Truth Ed. James McEvoy Reviewed by John Haldane Veritas, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Discovering Aquinas: an introduction to his life, work and influence Aidan Nichols OP Reviewed by Fergus Kerr Darton, Longman & Todd, £12.95 Tablet bookshop price £10.70 God in Society: doing social theology in Scotland today Eds William Storrar and Peter Donald Reviewed by Ian Bradley Saint Andrew Press, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 God in All Things Gerard W. Hughes Reviewed by Christopher Howse Hodder & Stoughton, £8.99 Tablet bookshop price £8.20 The Glenstal Book of Icons: praying with the Glenstal icons Gregory Collins Reviewed by Gemma Simmonds Columba Press, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £9.99 Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope Joan D. Chittister Reviewed by Gemma Simmonds Alban Books, £14.95 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 At Sea with God Margaret Silf Reviewed by Gemma Simmonds Darton, Longman & Todd, £8.95 Tablet bookshop price £8 To Love and to Serve Jonathan Draper Reviewed by Gemma Simmonds SPCK, £8.99 Tablet bookshop price £8 Mass Then and Now Esther Gordon Reviewed by Gemma Simmonds St Paul’s, £6.50 Tablet bookshop price £5.90 Seek My Face John Updike Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 In an early autobiographical essay, The Dogwood Tree: a boyhood, John Updike identifies “three great secret things” in human experience. Two of them, sex and religion, drive ... Power and Glory: Jacobean England and the making of the King James Bible Adam Nicolson Reviewed by Christopher de Hamel HarperCollins, £18 Tablet bookshop price £16 David Jones: writer and artist Keith Alldritt Reviewed by Christopher Howse Constable, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The Nuts and Bolts of Life: Willem Kolff and the invention of the kidney machine Paul Heiney Reviewed by James Le Fanu Sutton, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 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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