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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issuePalestineJoe Sacco Reviewed by Michael Adams Jonathan Cape, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Talking to the Other: Jewish interfaith dialogue with Christians and Muslims Jonathan Magonet Reviewed by I.B. Tauris, £29.50 Tablet bookshop price £27 Jews and Christians in Conversation: crossing cultures and generations Eds C.E. Kessler, J. Pawlikowski, J. Banki Reviewed by Jonathan Gorsky Orchard Academic, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Reading Chekhov: a critical journey Janet Malcolm Reviewed by Rosalie Osmond Granta Books, £13.99 Tablet bookshop price £12.60 The Tragedy of the Korosko Arthur Conan Doyle Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune Hesperus Press, £6.99 Tablet bookshop price £6.30 Lighter than Air Hans Magnus Enzensberger Reviewed by Anthony Haynes Bloodaxe, £8.95 Tablet bookshop price £8 In Passing Anne Stevenson Reviewed by Anthony Haynes Bloodaxe, £7.95 Tablet bookshop price £7.20 Flame Tree: selected poems Kevin Hart Reviewed by Anthony Haynes Bloodaxe, £9.95 Tablet bookshop price £9 Selected Poems Jacques Prevert Reviewed by Anthony Haynes Hearing Eye, £8.95 Tablet bookshop price £8 Previous weeks reviewsDefying Hitler: a memoirSebastian Haffner Reviewed by Edwin Robertson Weidenfeld & Nicholson, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 A Treasury of Anglican Art James B. Simpson and George H. Eatman Reviewed by Richard Major Marston Book Services, £34.95 Tablet bookshop price £31.45 Are You Talking to Me?: a life through the movies John Walsh Reviewed by Crispin Jackson HarperCollins, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Fat Ollie’s Book Ed McBain Reviewed by Orion, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 A Presumption of Death Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy L. Sayers Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune Hodder and Stoughton, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Frankie and Stankie Barbara Trapido Reviewed by Lucy Hannah Bloomsbury, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Vatican II: Forty Personal Stories Eds. William Madges and Michael J. Daly Reviewed by Gerald O’Collins Twenty-Third Publications, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 In this book a diverse team of contributors reflect on their experience of the Second Vatican Council, and the two editors provide clear introductions to the major council themes ...  Freedom Evolves Daniel 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 Our Final Century Martin Rees Reviewed by John Polkinghorne Heinemann, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.30 The Astronomer Royal is out to curdle our blood, but using the most civilised and reasonable discourse to do so and with the good intention of alerting us to possible danger ... Religion and Conflict in Sudan Eds 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 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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