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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueNobodys Fool: the life of Archbishop Robin EamesAlf McCreary Reviewed by Anthony Howard Hodder & Stoughton, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Hope the Archbishop: a portrait Rob Marshall Reviewed by Anthony Howard Continuum, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Damnation Julian Fane Reviewed by David McLaurin The Book Guild, £16.95 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 All the Poems Muriel Spark Reviewed by Peter Davidson Carcanet Press, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Previous weeks reviewsHoliness, Speech and Silence: reflections on the question of GodNicholas Lash Reviewed by Tina Beattie Ashgate, £35 hbk, £12.99 pbk Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Witch Craze Lyndal Roper Reviewed by Raymond Edwards Yale University Press, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Collected Poems and War Diary, 1917 Edward Thomas Reviewed by Jeremy Hooker Faber, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 The Poems of Edward Thomas Edward Thomas Reviewed by Jeremy Hooker Handsel Books, £11.50 Tablet bookshop price £10.50 Borges: a life Edwin Williamson Reviewed by Fernando Cervantes Viking, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 McGee on Food and Cooking: an encyclopedia of kitchen science, history and culture Harold McGee Reviewed by Margaret Taylor Hodder & Stoughton, £30 Tablet bookshop price £27 I am Charlotte Simmons Tom Wolfe Reviewed by Daniel Swift Jonathan Cape, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Gifts Ursula Le Guin Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Orion, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £10 Kissing the Rain Kevin Brooks Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs The Chicken House, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Crying for the Enemy Elizabeth Lutzeier Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Oxford University Press, £4.99 Tablet bookshop price £4.50 Not the End of the World Geraldine McCaughrean Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Oxford University Press, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £10 God and Caesar in China Ed. Jason Kindopp and Carol Lee Hamrin Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer Brookings Institution Press, £36.50 Tablet bookshop price £32.50 Since the time of the T'ang (618-907), the Chinese state has assumed the right to interfere in sacred matters. The Communist Revolution of 1949, however, went much further in ...  The Fall of Conrad Black Jacquie 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 Shrines of Our Lady in England Anne Vail Reviewed by Christopher Howse Gracewing, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Shrines to the Blessed Virgin Mary in England were not always decorated with potted ferns on doilies, raised above the tiled floor on wrought-iron stands. Amid the new and ... Will in the World: how Shakespeare became Shakespeare Stephen 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 £ 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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