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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueFaithful Reason: essays Catholic and philosophicalJohn Haldane Reviewed by Fergus Kerr Routledge, £19.99 Tablet bookshop price £18 Religion Online: finding faith on the internet Ed. Lorne L. Dawson and Douglas E. Cowan Reviewed by Lavinia Byrne Routledge, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Difficult Gospel: the theology of Rowan Williams Mike Higton Reviewed by Peter Groves SCM Press, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Karl Rahner: theology and philosophy Karen Kilby Reviewed by Philip Endean Routledge, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Edith Stein Sarah Borden Reviewed by Joanne Mosley Continuum, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Alien Sex: the body and desire in cinema and theology Gerard Loughlin Reviewed by Tina Beattie Blackwell Publishing, £19.99 Tablet bookshop price £18 Previous weeks reviewsSilvio Berlusconi: television, power and patrimonyPaul Ginsborg Reviewed by David Willey Verso, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 William Pitt the Younger William Hague Reviewed by David Goodall HarperCollins, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 Mark Mazower Reviewed by Trevor Mostyn HarperCollins, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Goldfish Bowl: married to the Prime Minister 1955-1997 Cherie Booth and Cate Haste Reviewed by Francis Beckett Chatto & Windus, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.10 A Tale of Love and Darkness Amos Oz Reviewed by Emma Klein Chatto & Windus, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke Reviewed by Raymond Edwards Bloomsbury, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 Occidentalism: a short history of anti-Westernism Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer Atlantic Books, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 This is a brief, stimulating read on a subject which has assumed new relevance from the confrontation between radical Islam and the West. However, the book does not confine ...  Interrogation of Silence Rowena Murray and John Murray Reviewed by P.J. Kavanagh John Murray, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Exiled Collector: William Bankes and the making of the English country house Anne Sebba Reviewed by Michael Estorick John Murray, £22.50 Tablet bookshop price £21 How we Saw it Christopher Howse Reviewed by Edward Stourton Ebury Press, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Pierre Monteux, Maître John Canarina Reviewed by John Amis Amadeus Press, £22.50 Tablet bookshop price £21 You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free James Kelman Reviewed by Matthew Wright Hamish Hamilton, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 The Life of Graham Greene: Volume Three: 1955-1991 Norman Sherry Reviewed by Mark Lawson Jonathan Cape, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Although Graham Greene's novels are big in their implications, they never insisted on physical bulk: across his career, the books averaged 250 pages, in comparison with serious ... A Reason for Everything: natural selection and the English imagination Marek Kohn Reviewed by James Le Fanu Faber & Faber, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 A Death in Brazil: a book of omissions Peter Robb Reviewed by James Painter Bloomsbury, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Wodehouse: a life Robert McCrum Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune Viking, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The Sunday Philosophy Club Alexander McCall Smith Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Little, Brown , £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 All the Pope’s Men: the inside story of how the Vatican really thinks John L. Allen Jr Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh Doubleday, £13.89 Tablet bookshop price £12.50 Recently in Rome a colleague of mine to whom I introduced John Allen put a question to him which I had never dared to. It was Saturday; we were sitting at a cafe behind the Holy ... Mary Sarah Jane Boss Reviewed by Lavinia Byrne Continuum, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Last Rights: a Catholic perspective on end-of-life decisions Dolores L. Christie Reviewed by John Keown Rowman and Littlefield, £14.95 Tablet bookshop price £13.45 The Hive: the story of the honeybee and us Bee Wilson Reviewed by Mary Blanche Gibbs John Murray, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Ghost Girl Helena McEwen Reviewed by Shirley Lancaster Bloomsbury, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 The Woods of Windri Violet Needham Reviewed by Mary Emma Baxter Jane Nissen Books, £7.99 Tablet bookshop price £7.20 Leonardo da Vinci: the flights of the mind Charles Nicholl Reviewed by Christopher Howse Allen Lane, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 "He would arrive early, climb up on to the scaffolding, and set to work," wrote a witness to the painting of The Last Supper in Milan. "Sometimes he ... 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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