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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueWaterloo – Napoleon’s last gambleAndrew Roberts Reviewed by Paul Ffolkes Davis HarperCollins, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Stuart: a life backwards Alexander Masters Reviewed by Selina O’Grady Fourth Estate, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 World’s End: memoir of a Blitz childhood Donald James Wheal Reviewed by Anne Sebba Century, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Children of War Susan Goodman Reviewed by Anne Sebba John Murray, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Diplomatic Baggage: the adventures of a trailing spouse Brigid Keenan Reviewed by Mary Emma Baxter John Murray, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 The Minotaur Barbara Vine Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune Viking, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.80 Restoration London: everyday life in London 1660-1670 Liza Picard Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Orion Audiobooks, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £ Dangerous Liaisons Choderlos de Laclos Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Naxos Audiobooks, £13.99 Tablet bookshop price £ Dubliners James Joyce Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Naxos Audiobooks, £24.99 Tablet bookshop price £ The Storyteller’s Daughter Saira Shah Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Penguin Audiobooks, £8.50 Tablet bookshop price £ Previous weeks reviewsDr Johnson’s Dictionary: the extraordinary story of the book that defined the worldHenry Hitchings Reviewed by Dot Wordsworth John Murray, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Going Sane Adam Phillips Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Hamish Hamilton, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 The Vote: how it was won and how it was undermined Paul Foot Reviewed by Francis Beckett Viking, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 D.H. Lawrence: the life of an outsider John Worthen Reviewed by P.J. Kavanagh Allen Lane, £30 Tablet bookshop price £27 Mad about the Mekong: exploration and empire in South-East Asia John Keay Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer HarperCollins, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Letter from America 1946-2004 Alistair Cooke Reviewed by Gerard Baker Allen Lane, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge Viking, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 A Church That Can and Cannot Change John T. Noonan, Jr Reviewed by Charles Curran University of Notre Dame, £22.50 Tablet bookshop price £20.25 John Noonan has written more on the historical development of particular moral teachings in the Catholic Church than any other person, but more important than the quantity of his ...  Revelations: personal responses to the books of the bible Richard Holloway Reviewed by Christopher Howse Canongate, £10 Tablet bookshop price £9 Berlin Mosaic Eva Tucker Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Starhaven, £10 Tablet bookshop price £9 1 out of 10 Peter Hyman Reviewed by Nicholas Pyke Vintage, £7.99 Tablet bookshop price £7.20 In Tasmania Nicholas Shakespeare Reviewed by Michael McHale Harvill, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Mary Seacole Jane Robinson Reviewed by David McLaurin Constable, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Recusant Yeoman John Robinson Reviewed by David McLaurin Frontier Publishing, £22 Tablet bookshop price £20 Sentimental Murder: love and madness in the eighteenth century John Brewer Reviewed by David McLaurin Harper Perennial, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 My Life in Orange Tim Guest Reviewed by David McLaurin Granta, £7.99 Tablet bookshop price £7.20 Poets and God David L. Edwards Reviewed by P.J. Kavanagh Darton, Longman & Todd, £12.95 Tablet bookshop price £11.80 The forthright, even startling, title of this enjoyable book defines exactly what it is about: an examination of seven poets – Chaucer, Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton, Wordsworth, ... Memory & Identity: personal reflections Pope John Paul II Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 On the day the Pope was taken into hospital for the second time last month, many of Rome’s journalists were attending an excellent Vatican conference on the Church’s need to embrace ... Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Faber & Faber, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Colosseum Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard Reviewed by Noonie Minogue Profile Books, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 Long Live latin John Gray Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune Canis Press, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 The Art of Cookery John Thacker Reviewed by Rosalie Osmund Southover Press, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Passion Geza Vermes Reviewed by Anthony Harvey Penguin Books, £6.99 Tablet bookshop price £6.30 The advertisement on the cover of this latest book by Professor Vermes promises “the true story”. And indeed, “What really happened?” is the question he claims to be answering ... Moreschi: the last castrato Nicholas Clapton Reviewed by Crispin Jackson Haus Publishing, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 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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