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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueThe Stories of Hans Christian AndersenA new translation by Diana Crone Frank and Jeffrey Frank Reviewed by Noonie Minogue Granta Books, £15 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales A new translation by Tina Nunnally Reviewed by Noonie Minogue Penguin Books, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Macedonia: warlords and rebels in the Balkans John Phillips Reviewed by Christopher Herdon I. B. Tauris, £17.95 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 A Gentle Jesuit: Philip Caraman, SJ June Rockett Reviewed by Michael Walsh Gracewing, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Stephen Fry’s Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music Tim Lihoreau Reviewed by Robert Thicknesse Macmillan, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 A Factory of Cunning Philippa Stockley Reviewed by David McLaurin Little, Brown, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Previous weeks reviewsThe Right Nation: why America is differentJohn Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge Reviewed by Anatol Lieven Penguin, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 St Josemaría Escrivá and the Origins of Opus Dei William Keenan Reviewed by Michael Walsh Gracewing, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Far Away and Long Ago: a childhood in Argentina W.H. Hudson Reviewed by Kate Kavanagh Eland, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Father Figure Ann Widdecombe Reviewed by Jack O’Sullivan Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Cuba: a new history Richard Gott Reviewed by James Painter Yale University Press, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.10 One of the largest demonstrations ever held in Cuba took place last May. At least one million Cubans marched through the streets, led by Latin America’s veteran leader and great ...  Carlo Crivelli Ronald Lightbown Reviewed by Andrew Schering Yale University Press, £60.00 Tablet bookshop price £54.00 Arguments With England Michael Blakemore Reviewed by Michael Estorick Faber & Faber, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Inheritance Lan Samantha Chang Reviewed by Shirley Lancaster Weidenfeld & Nicholson, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 The Cat That Could Open the Fridge Simon Hoggart Reviewed by Simon Lister Atlantic Books, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Wotton and his Worlds: spying, science and Venetian intrigues Gerald Curzon Reviewed by David McLaurin Xlibris, £23 Tablet bookshop price £20.70 Francis Nicholas Blundell: a memoir Margaret Blundell Reviewed by David McLaurin Haggerston Press, £12.50 Tablet bookshop price £11.25 I Would Not be Forgotten: the life and work of Robert Stephen Hawker Patrick Hutton Reviewed by David McLaurin Hawker, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The Seven Basic Plots: why we tell stories Christopher Booker Reviewed by Noonie Minogue Continuum, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The heckling begins even when you mention the title of this book: “Oh, but it’s the flesh of a story that makes it alive, not the bones”, or “you can make a story mean just about ... Discovering Girard Michael Kirwan Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh Darton, Longman & Todd, £10.95 Tablet bookshop price £10 The Last of the Celts Marcus Tanner Reviewed by Hywel Williams Yale University Press, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Is There Anything You Want? Margaret Forster Reviewed by Mary Blanche Gibbs Chatto & Windus, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Olivia Manning Neville & June Braybrooke Reviewed by Mary Emma Baxter Chatto & Windus, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Miles: a portrait of the seventeenth Duke of Norfolk Gerard Noel Reviewed by John Jolliffe Michael Russell, £15.95 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 America Right or Wrong Anatol Lieven Reviewed by Gerard Baker HarperCollins, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17 You don’t often hear talk of American nationalism. You certainly rarely hear it from Americans themselves. To Americans it is in some sense an oxymoron. Nationalism in the American ... Nobodys Fool: the life of Archbishop Robin Eames Alf 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 Sacred and Secular Scriptures: a Catholic approach to literature Nicholas Boyle Reviewed by Nicholas Boyle Darton, Longman & Todd, £14.95 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Nicholas Boyle, Professor of German Literary and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, has published two volumes of Goethe: The Poet and the Age, and is working ... 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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