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