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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issuePorridge and Passion: an autobiographyJonathan Aitken Reviewed by Margaret Hebblethwaite Continuum, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 A Middle Eastern Affair Ellis Douek Reviewed by Emma Klein Peter Halban Publishers, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.10 One Voice Vera Brittain Reviewed by Bruce Kent Continuum, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 The Optimists Andrew Miller Reviewed by David McLaurin Sceptre, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Previous weeks reviewsMoon Dust: in search of the men who fell to earthAndrew Smith Reviewed by Michael McHale Bloomsbury, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 From China With Love: a long road to motherhood Emily Buchanan Reviewed by Mary Emma Baxter John Wiley, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Love and War in London: a woman’s diary 1939-1942 Olivia Cockett, ed. Robert W. Malcolmson Reviewed by Michael Barber Wilfrid Laurier University Press, £13.99 Tablet bookshop price £12.60 Fitzgerald’s Wood David Nwokedi Reviewed by David McLaurin Jonathan Cape, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £10 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling Reviewed by Raymond Edwards Bloomsbury, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 At midnight last Friday, along with millions of other fans, I awaited the arrival of the penultimate instalment of the Harry Potter series with a mixture of excitement and apprehension. ...  Prayers For This Life Ed. Christopher Howse Reviewed by Continuum, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett Richard Ingrams Reviewed by Ronald Blythe HarperCollins, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Wide-Eyed in Medialand: a broadcaster’s journey Denis Tuohy Reviewed by Roger Bolton Blackstaff Press, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Life for Us Choman Hardi Reviewed by Sarah Lawson Bloodaxe, £7.95 Tablet bookshop price £7.15 Prayers For This Life Ed. Christopher Howse Reviewed by Ruth Burrows Continuum, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett Richard Ingrams Reviewed by Ronald Blythe HarperCollins, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Wide-Eyed in Medialand: a broadcaster’s journey Denis Tuohy Reviewed by Roger Bolton Blackstaff Press, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Life for Us Choman Hardi Reviewed by Sarah Lawson Bloodaxe, £7.95 Tablet bookshop price £7.15 The Hopkins Manuscript R.C. Sherriff Reviewed by David McLaurin Persephone Books, £10 Tablet bookshop price £9 Grace and Necessity: reflections on art and love Rowan Williams Reviewed by Jeremy Hooker Morehouse, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Grace and Necessity, an expanded version of Rowan Williams’ Clark Lectures, delivered earlier this year, reflects on “the relationship between Christian thought and the practice ... Habits of Devotion: Catholic religious practice in twentieth-century America Ed. James M. O’Toole Reviewed by John Pollard Cornell University Press, £21.99 Tablet bookshop price £19.80 The Turning Tim Winton Reviewed by Shirley Lancaster Picador, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Arthur and George Julian Barnes Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Jonathan Cape, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 The Collected Jorkens Vols I, II & III Lord Dunsany Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune Night Shade Books, £19.50 Tablet bookshop price £18.30 Human Life, Action and Ethics: essays by G. E. M. Anscombe Ed. Mary Geach and Luke Gormally Reviewed by Michael Dummett Imprint Academic, £35 Tablet bookshop price £31.50 The late Professor Elizabeth Anscombe was without doubt one of the most distinguished professional philosophers of her generation. She was also a devout Catholic. Anscombe had a ... Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the making of the English hero Adam Nicolson Reviewed by Selina O’Grady HarperCollins, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Idea of North Peter Davidson Reviewed by Rosalie Osmond Reaktion Books, £16.95 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Portugal: a traveller’s history Harold Livermore Reviewed by C.A.R. Hills Boydell & Brewer, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 London – A Musical Gazetteer Lewis Foreman and Susan Foreman Reviewed by John Amis Yale University Press, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 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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