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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issuePenguin Special: the life and times of Allen LaneJeremy Lewis Reviewed by Isabel Quigly Penguin Viking, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Batutah Tim Mackintosh-Smith Reviewed by David Goodall John Murray, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 No Soft Incense: Barbara Pym and the Church Ed. Hazel K. Bell Reviewed by A.N.Wilson Barbara Pym Society, £7.50 Tablet bookshop price £ St Martin-in-the-Fields Malcolm Johnson Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin Phillimore & Co, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Enough is Enough Mark Lawson Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Picador, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.70 Previous weeks reviewsAugustine, Sinner and SaintJames J. O’Donnell Reviewed by Christopher Howse Profile Books, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Anglican Religious Life: a well kept secret? Ed. Nicolas Stebbing CR Reviewed by A. M. Allchin Dominican Publications, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 What the Bible Really Teaches: a challenge to fundamentalists Keith Ward Reviewed by Henry Wansbrough SPCK, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Peter Maurin: apostle to the world Dorothy Day with Francis J. Sicius Reviewed by Rachel Howell Orbis Books, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Methodism: empire of the spirit David Hempton Reviewed by Leslie Griffiths Yale University Press, £19.95 Tablet bookshop price £18 People Get Ready! a new history of black gospel music Robert Darden Reviewed by Ian Bradley Continuum, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits Allan Greer Reviewed by Michael Walsh Oxford University Press, £18.50 Tablet bookshop price £16.65 Roll Back the Stone of Fear Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako Reviewed by Raymond Edwards Aid to the Church in Need, £6.50 Tablet bookshop price £5.90 The Watch on the Heath: science and religion before Darwin Keith Thomson Reviewed by John Polkinghorne HarperCollins, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Praying with Jesus and Mary: Our Father; Hail Mary Leonardo Boff Reviewed by Mary Blanche Gibbs Orbis Books, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Standing Up to God Anthony Phillips Reviewed by Mary Blanche Gibbs SPCK, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Passionate Spirituality: Hildegard of Bingen and Hadewijch of Brabant Elizabeth A. Dreyer Reviewed by Mary Blanche Gibbs Paulist Press, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Companions of Christ: Ignatian spirituality for everyday living Margaret Silf Reviewed by Mary Blanche Gibbs Canterbury Press, £7.99 Tablet bookshop price £7.20 The Strange Death of Tory England Geoffrey Wheatcroft Reviewed by Hywel Williams Allen Lane, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 This is an elegant essay on a very big subject that is, obviously, of particular interest this week of the British general election. The Tory party, in one form or another, has been ...  The Little Book of Philosophy André Comte-Sponville Reviewed by Maximilian de Gaynesford William Heineman, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 What’s It’s All About? Philosophy and the Meaning of Life Julian Baggini Reviewed by This week's cover illustration is by Richard Wilson. Garry O’Connor is a biographer by profession. There have been excursions into Eng. Lit., and even into modern French drama, but his stock-in-trade has been studies of playwrights ... Danny’s Challenge: the true story of a father learning to love his son Danny Mardell Reviewed by Brian Brock Short Books, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Early Poems and Juvenilia Philip Larkin Reviewed by P. J. Kavanagh Faber & Faber, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Hitler’s Spy Chief : the Wilhelm Canaris mystery Richard Bassett Reviewed by Christopher Herdon Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 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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