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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueThe Fall of Conrad BlackJacquie McNish and Sinclair Stewart Reviewed by John Cornwell Allen Lane, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 Josiah Wedgwood: entrepreneur to the Enlightenment Brian Dolan Reviewed by Selina O’Grady HarperCollins, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Atterbury Plot Eveline Cruickshanks and Howard Erskine-Hill Reviewed by Dom Aidan Bellenger Palgrave Macmillan, £60 Tablet bookshop price £54 Phiz: the man who drew Dickens Valerie Browne Lester Reviewed by Christopher Phipps Chatto & Windus, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The Scarecrow and his Servant Philip Pullman Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Doubleday, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £10 Previous weeks reviewsWill in the World: how Shakespeare became ShakespeareStephen Greenblatt Reviewed by Daniel Swift Jonathan Cape, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Something About P.J. Kavanagh Reviewed by Oliver Bernard Carcanet, £7.95 Tablet bookshop price £7.20 The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey Patrick O’Brian Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune HarperCollins, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.20 The Star of the Sea Joseph O’Connor Reviewed by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor Vintage, £6.99 Tablet bookshop price £ Pevsner Architectural Guide to Liverpool Joseph Sharples Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin Yale University Press, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £ The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith Reviewed by David McLaurin Abacus, £8.99 Tablet bookshop price £ 9/11 Commission Report Reviewed by Michael McHale , £ Tablet bookshop price £ Bergdorf Blondes Plum Sykes Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune Viking, £10 Tablet bookshop price £ The Twilight of Atheism: the rise and fall of disbelief in the modern world Alister E. McGrath Reviewed by Fergus Kerr Rider, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 In Britain, perhaps especially, though in Western Europe quite generally, going to church is on the wane. Secularism, deeply entrenched, seems irreversible. Whether we welcome ...  An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Christian Ethics Alban McCoy Reviewed by Bernard Green Continuum, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Betjeman: the bonus of laughter Bevis Hillier Reviewed by Christopher Howse John Murray, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Devil’s Account: Philip Pullman and Christianity Hugh Rayment-Pickard Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh Darton, Longman & Todd, £7.95 Tablet bookshop price £7.20 Scribbling the Cat Alexandra Fuller Reviewed by James Roberts Picador, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Dark Fire C.J. Sansom Reviewed by David McLaurin Macmillan, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Devil’s Account: Philip Pullman and Christianity Hugh Rayment-Pickard Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh Darton, Longman & Todd, £7.95 Tablet bookshop price £7.20 Scribbling the Cat Alexandra Fuller Reviewed by James Roberts Picador, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Watch For The Light: readings for Advent and Christmas Reviewed by Mary Blanche Gibbs Plough Publishing, £10 Tablet bookshop price £9 Gifts in the Ruins: rediscovering what matters most Rosemary Luling Haughton Reviewed by Mary Blanche Gibbs Orbis Books, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £10 On Making Choices Margaret Silf Reviewed by Mary Blanche Gibbs Lion Books, £4.99 Tablet bookshop price £4.50 A Time of Waiting: images and insights Anne Thurston Reviewed by Mary Blanche Gibbs Columba Press, £6.99 Tablet bookshop price £6.30 Hawkwood: diabolical Englishman Frances Stonor Saunders Reviewed by Mary Emma Baxter Faber & Faber, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 There is a story that the Florentines promised to commemorate the mercenary Sir John Hawkwood with a great marble equestrian monument. After his death, they did not honour their ... 1812: Napoleon’s fatal march on Moscow Adam Zamoyski Reviewed by Alfred Latham-Koenig HarperCollins, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Breaking Ground: adventures in life and architecture Daniel Libeskind Reviewed by Jonathan Glancey John Murray, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Princesses: the six daughters of George III Flora Fraser Reviewed by Noonie Minogue John Murray, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 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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