Book reviewed in this issue
Pleasurable melancholy
Untold Stories 
Alan Bennett
Reviewed by Christopher Howse
Ed. Martin Brown OSB and Colmán O Clabaigh OSB
Reviewed by Augustine Holmes
Kathryn Hughes
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh
David Faber
Reviewed by Richard Bassett
John McGahern
Reviewed by Terry Philpot
P.D. James
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune
Previous weeks reviews
Faith only in the drama
Shakespeare: the biography 
Peter Ackroyd
Reviewed by Oliver Bernard
Amaranta Wright
Reviewed by Jimmy Burns
J.M. Coetzee
Reviewed by Philip Womack
David Boyle
Reviewed by Noonie Minogue
Out of the shadows
Opus Dei: secrets and power inside the Catholic Church 
John L. Allen
Reviewed by Christopher Howse
Terry Coleman
Reviewed by Francis Beckett
Carol Kidwell
Reviewed by Michael Walsh
Vikram Seth
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards
Zadie Smith
Reviewed by Kathy Watson
An aerial tour of postmodern life
The New SCM Dictionary of Christian Spirituality 
Ed. Philip Sheldrake
Reviewed by Laurence Freeman
Terry Eagleton
Reviewed by John Cottingham
Roger Scruton
Reviewed by Ian Ker
Ed. Ann Gore and George Carter
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin
Henry Shukman
Reviewed by Timothy Wright
Kate O’Brien
Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge
Revenge tale in a riotous paradise
Shalimar the Clown 
Salman Rushdie
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards
Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey
Reviewed by John Wilkins
Alison Weir
Reviewed by Kathy Watson
Lorne Campbell
Reviewed by Laura Gascoigne
Robin Blake
Reviewed by Robert Thicknesse
Jonathan Keates
Reviewed by David Goodall
Charles R. Cross
Reviewed by Andy Bull
Sir Thomas More
Reviewed by Selina O’Grady
Sebastian Faulks
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh
Julian Fane
Reviewed by David McLaurin
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