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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueWhy I am Still a CatholicEd. Peter Stanford Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh Continuum, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 To Travel Hopefully: journal of a death not foretold Christopher Rush Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Profile Books, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 Rosebery: statesman in turmoil Leo McKinstry Reviewed by David Goodall John Murray, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Through the Eyes of the Saints: a pilgrimage through history David Brown Reviewed by Michael Walsh Continuum, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 A Long Way Down Nick Hornby Reviewed by Simon Lister Viking, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 A Square of Sky Janina David Reviewed by Michael Estorick Eland Books, £12 Tablet bookshop price £10.80 Previous weeks reviewsHuman Values: new essays on ethics and natural lawEd. David S. Oderberg and Timothy Chappell Reviewed by John Haldane Palgrave Macmillan, £50 Tablet bookshop price £45 Being Indian Pavan K. Varma Reviewed by Krishna Dutta William Heinemann, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 The New Testament: freshly translated with an interactive study guide Nicholas King Reviewed by Anthony Harvey Kevin Mayhew, £19.99 Tablet bookshop price £18 Games of Chance: the history of a family Julian Fane Reviewed by David McLaurin The Book Guild, £16.95 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Look At The Dark Nicholas Mosley Reviewed by Bill Bankes-Jones Secker & Warburg, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Riviera Nature Notes: a popular account of the more conspicuous plants and animals of the Riviera and the Maritime Alps Ed. by Rob Cassy Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Signal Books , £30 Tablet bookshop price £27 Basil Hume: the monk cardinal Anthony Howard Reviewed by John Wilkins Headline, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 In writing this official biography, Anthony Howard seems to have undergone the same experience as did so many of the late Cardinal Hume’s contemporaries. Himself “a wistful agnostic”, ...  The lost Executioner: a story of the Khmer Rouge Nic Dunlop Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer Bloomsbury, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 The Families who made Rome Anthony Majanlahti Reviewed by Mary Emma Baxter Chatto & Windus, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The Short Day Dying Peter Hobbs Reviewed by Nick Parker Faber & Faber, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £10 Virginia Woolf: an inner life Julia Briggs Reviewed by Robert Nye Allen Lane, £30 Tablet bookshop price £27 The View in Winter Ronald Blythe Reviewed by Isabel Quigly Canterbury Press, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 After Elizabeth: how James King of Scots won the crown of England in 1603 Leanda de Lisle Reviewed by Lucy Wooding HarperCollins, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Too many books are written by authors telling history as they would want it to have been. Such is the human capacity for self-deception, they are usually genuine in their convictions, ... The secret of Bryn Estyn: the making of a modern witch hunt Richard Webster Reviewed by James Le Fanu Orwell Press, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Mirror of the Gods: classical mythology in Renaissance art Malcolm Bull Reviewed by John McEwen Allen Lane, £30 Tablet bookshop price £27 Dinner for Dickens Susan M. Rossi-Wilcox Reviewed by Rosalie Osmond Prospect Books, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 A Winter in China Douglas Galbraith Reviewed by David McLaurin Secker and Warburg, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Flashman on the March George Macdonald Fraser Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune HarperCollins, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 My Father’s Rifle Hiner Saleem Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Atlantic Books, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Travelling the M25 Clockwise Roy Phippen Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Pallas Athene, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 A Venetian Affair Andrea di Robilant Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Harper Perennial, £7.99 Tablet bookshop price £7.20 Serving the Good and the Great Violet Liddle Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Zondervan, £7.99 Tablet bookshop price £7.20 The Works of Thomas Traherne (Vol.1) Ed. Jan Ross Reviewed by A. M. Allchin Boydell & Brewer, £75 Tablet bookshop price £67.50 There seems always to have been something elusive and strange about the life and writings of Thomas Traherne. A mid-seventeenth-century Anglican clergyman who spent most of his adult ... Penguin Special: the life and times of Allen Lane Jeremy Lewis Reviewed by Isabel Quigly Penguin Viking, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 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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