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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueThe Wit in the Dungeon: a life of Leigh HuntAnthony Holden Reviewed by Robert Nye Little, Brown, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Fiery Heart: the first life of Leigh Hunt Nicholas Roe Reviewed by Robert Nye Pimlico, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Franklin and Winston: a portrait of a friendship Jon Meacham Reviewed by Michael McHale Granta, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Deans Trevor Beeson Reviewed by Timothy Brittain Catlin SCM Press, £19.99 Tablet bookshop price £18 The Rough Guide to the Da Vinci Code Michael Haag and Veronica Haag Reviewed by Michael Walsh Rough Guides/ Penguin, £4.99 Tablet bookshop price £4.50 Runaway Alice Munro Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Chatto & Windus, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 Reader, I Married Him Michèle Roberts Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Little, Brown, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Previous weeks reviewsMoral Wisdom, Lessons and Texts from the Catholic TraditionJames F. Keenan Reviewed by Linda Hogan Sheed & Ward, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £10 The Alpha Enterprise: evangelism in a post-Christian era Stephen Hunt Reviewed by Kristina Cooper Ashgate, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Problem of Evil and the Problem of God D.Z. Phillips Reviewed by Brian Davies SCM Press, £19.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.99 Christina of Markyate Ed. Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser Reviewed by Christopher Howse Routledge, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Jesus, a Jewish Galilean Sean Freyne Reviewed by Anthony Harvey T&T Clark International, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 I Must be Talking to Myself: dialogue in the Roman Catholic Church since Vatican II Mark Patrick Hederman Reviewed by Sebastian Moore Veritas, £11.95 Tablet bookshop price £11 Why Jesus Died Gerald S. Sloyan Reviewed by Mary Blanche Gibbs Fortress Press, £3.50 Tablet bookshop price £3.20 A Sense of Grace Robin Gill Reviewed by Mary Blanche Gibbs SPCK, £7.99 Tablet bookshop price £7 Loved by Love: growing into spiritual health and wholeness Roy Williamson Reviewed by Mary Blanche Gibbs SPCK, £8.99 Tablet bookshop price £8 Out of the Ashes: the Cafod/ DLT Lent Book 2005 Reviewed by Mary Blanche Gibbs Cafod/DLT, £4.95 Tablet bookshop price £4.50 Father Joe: the man who saved my soul Tony Hendra Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The best life coaches teach us how to reach our goals, how to succeed in relationships, achieve self-mastery and find happiness. They know how to repair the storm damage ...  The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen A 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 Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body James Hall Reviewed by Timothy Brittain Catlin Chatto & Windus, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22 The problem of Michelangelo is the problem of the Catholic Church, and at its most glorious and most terrible: it is the problem of women.There seem to be few in his work ... The Right Nation: why America is different John 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 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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