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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueV.S. PritchettJeremy Treglown Reviewed by D.J. Taylor Chatto & Windus, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Friendship: Interpreting Christian Love ed. Liz Carmichael Reviewed by Bernard Green T & T Clark , £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Hitchhiking to Heaven: an autobiography Lionel Blue Reviewed by Julia Neuberger Hodder & Stoughton, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.10 A Pike in the Basement: tales of a hungry traveller Simon Loftus Reviewed by Lucy Hannah Eland, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 The Plot Against America Philip Roth Reviewed by Michael McHale Jonathan Cape, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Pebbled Shore: the memoirs of Elizabeth Longford Foreword by Antonia Fraser Reviewed by Mary Blanche Gibbs Sutton Publishing, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Previous weeks reviewsThe Blairs and Their CourtFrancis Beckett and David Hencke Reviewed by Peter Hennessy Aurum Press, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.10 Homeland Dale Maharidge Reviewed by Daniel Swift Seven Stories Press, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Damnatio Memoriae: erased from memory Sebastian Barker Reviewed by Robert Nye Enitharmon Press, £8.95 Tablet bookshop price £8.10 Fascination William Boyd Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way John Paul II Reviewed by John Cornwell Jonathan Cape, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £10 Professor Eamon Duffy relates a story told him by a theologian friend who found himself sitting next to John Paul II at a dinner in the papal apartment. He said to the pontiff: ...  Fathers and Sons: the autobiography of a family Alexander Waugh Reviewed by Christopher Howse Headline, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Stalin’s British Victims Francis Beckett Reviewed by Robert Harvey Sutton Publishing, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Mind the Gap: the new class divide in Britain Ferdinand Mount Reviewed by Selina O’Grady Short Books, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Night Calypso Lawrence Scott Reviewed by David McLaurin Allison & Busby, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £10 Faith of our Fathers: reflections on Catholic tradition Eamon Duffy Reviewed by Aidan Nichols Continuum, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 This collection of essays began life as occasional pieces largely drawn from the pages of The Tablet's sister periodical, Priests and People. Read continuously, however, ... Faithful Reason: essays Catholic and philosophical John 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 Berlusconi’s Shadow: crime, justice and the pursuit of power David Lane Reviewed by David Willey Penguin, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.10 Silvio Berlusconi: television, power and patrimony Silvio Berlusconi ... Silvio Berlusconi: television, power and patrimony Paul 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 ... 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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