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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueTrevor Huddleston: turbulent priestPiers McGrandle Reviewed by Paddy Kearney Continuum, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Westminster Abbey Richard Jenkyns Reviewed by Paul Binski Profile Books, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 God Has Not Changed Alice Thomas Ellis Reviewed by Libby Purves Burns & Oates, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Young Turk Moris Farhi Reviewed by Sarah Lawson Saqi Books, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Bay of Tigers Pedro Rosa Mendes Reviewed by James Ferguson Granta, £8.99 Tablet bookshop price £8.10 Bonjour Blanc: a journey through Haiti Ian Thomson Reviewed by James Ferguson Vintage, £7.99 Tablet bookshop price £7.20 Mr China Tim Clissold Reviewed by James Ferguson Robinson, £8.99 Tablet bookshop price £8.10 Previous weeks reviewsSolovki: the story of Russia told through its most remarkable islandsRoy R. Robson Reviewed by Michael Bourdeaux Yale University Press, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Symbol of Courage : a complete history of the Victoria Cross Max Arthur Reviewed by Christopher Herdon Sidgwick & Jackson, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Like a Fiery Elephant: the story of B.S. Johnson Jonathan Coe Reviewed by Mary Emma Baxter Picador, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The Fit Philip Hensher Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Fourth Estate, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 The Curious Incident of the Dog Mark Reviewed by Mary Kenny Vintage, £6.99 Tablet bookshop price £ Mr Paradise Elmore Leonard Reviewed by Laura Gascoigne Viking, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £ Biting Talk Norman Hunter Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Hodder & Stoughton, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £ The Woods of Windri Violet Needham Reviewed by Mary Emma Baxter Jane Nissen, £12 Tablet bookshop price £ The Ruskin Alphabet Kevin Jackson Reviewed by Ian Thomson Worple Press, £4.50 Tablet bookshop price £ No Full Stops in India Mark Tully Reviewed by David Goodall Penguin, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £ The Family Way Tony Parsons Reviewed by Edward Stourton HarperCollins, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £ Westminster Abbey Richard Jenkyns Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer Profile Books, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £ The Smoking Diaries Simon Gray Reviewed by Granta, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £ A Right to Difference: the architecture Jean Renaudie by Irčné Scalbert Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin Architectural Association, £25 Tablet bookshop price £ Blair Anthony Seldon Reviewed by Peter Oborne Free Press, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 It is hard to praise too highly this superbly well-informed and exhaustively researched book. It creates a portrait of the Prime Minister which is largely convincing and fair ...  Juan Carlos: a people’s king Paul Preston Reviewed by Isabella Thomas HarperCollins, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Bonhoeffer Stephen Plant Reviewed by Keith Clements Continuum, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Time to Stand and Stare: a life of W.H. Davies, poet and super-tramp Barbara Hooper Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Peter Owen Publishers , £15.95 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 The Mysteries of Glass Sue Gee Reviewed by David McLaurin Review, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.50 Forgotten Shrines Bede Camm OSB Reviewed by Mark Bence-Jones Gracewing, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Mission and Evangelisation Ed. Michael Hayes Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh Burns & Oates, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 When, in ancient times, one army overcame another in battle, the victorious general would choose from his ranks a slave to be freed in return for carrying the news of victory to ... The Transit of Venus: the brief, brilliant life of Jeremiah Horrocks, father of British astronomy Peter Aughton Reviewed by Michael Hoskins Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.00 Palmerston: the peoples darling James Chambers Reviewed by Paul ffolkes Davies John Murray, £25.00 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Human Story: a new history of mankinds evolution Robin Dunbar Reviewed by James LeFanu Faber & Faber, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 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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