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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueThe Irish Benedictines: a historyEd. Martin Brown OSB and Colmán O Clabaigh OSB Reviewed by Augustine Holmes The Columba Press, £19.99 Tablet bookshop price £18 The Short Life and Long Times of Isabella Beeton Kathryn Hughes Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh Fourth Estate, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Speaking for England David Faber Reviewed by Richard Bassett Simon & Schuster, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Memoir John McGahern Reviewed by Terry Philpot Faber & Faber, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Lighthouse P.D. James Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune Faber & Faber, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 Previous weeks reviewsRipped and Torn: Levi’s, Latin America and the blue jean dreamAmaranta Wright Reviewed by Jimmy Burns Ebury Press, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £10 Slow Man J.M. Coetzee Reviewed by Philip Womack Secker & Warburg, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Blondel’s Song: the capture, imprisonment and ransom of Richard the Lionheart David Boyle Reviewed by Noonie Minogue Viking, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Opus Dei: secrets and power inside the Catholic Church John L. Allen Reviewed by Christopher Howse Allen Lane, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 In 1987 Cardinal Hume wrote to the Archbishop of Seoul, who had asked if it was a good idea to let Opus Dei start up in his diocese. “I know that Opus Dei contains many good people ...  Olivier: the authorised biography Terry Coleman Reviewed by Francis Beckett Bloomsbury, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Pietro Bembo: lover, linguist, cardinal Carol Kidwell Reviewed by Michael Walsh McGill University Press, £29.95 Tablet bookshop price £27 Two Lives Vikram Seth Reviewed by Raymond Edwards Little, Brown, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 On Beauty Zadie Smith Reviewed by Kathy Watson Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The New SCM Dictionary of Christian Spirituality Ed. Philip Sheldrake Reviewed by Laurence Freeman SCM, £40 Tablet bookshop price £36 The word “spirituality” might evoke different responses. Probably few would say it is a bad thing but some might have thoughts they would not make public. For some it is the essence ... Holy Terror Terry Eagleton Reviewed by John Cottingham Oxford University Press, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Gentle Regrets: a philosopher’s life Roger Scruton Reviewed by Ian Ker Continuum, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Humphrey Repton’s Memoirs Ed. Ann Gore and George Carter Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin Michael Russell Ltd, £15.95 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 Sandstorm Henry Shukman Reviewed by Timothy Wright Jonathan Cape, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 As Music and Splendour Kate O’Brien Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Penguin Books, £6.99 Tablet bookshop price £6.30 Shalimar the Clown Salman Rushdie Reviewed by Raymond Edwards Jonathan Cape, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 This is not a book of surprises. We begin with the murder of Max Ophuls, an apparently retired diplomat, an American born in Alsace to Jewish parents. The killer is his driver, a ... Birds Britannica Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey Reviewed by John Wilkins Chatto & Windus, £35 Tablet bookshop price £31.50 Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England Alison Weir Reviewed by Kathy Watson Jonathan Cape, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Van der Weyden Lorne Campbell Reviewed by Laura Gascoigne Chaucer Press, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 George Stubbs and the Wide Creation Robin Blake Reviewed by Robert Thicknesse Chatto & Windus, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Siege of Venice Jonathan Keates Reviewed by David Goodall Chatto & Windus, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Room Full of Mirrors: a biography of Jimi Hendrix Charles R. Cross Reviewed by Andy Bull Sceptre, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.10 The History of King Richard III Sir Thomas More Reviewed by Selina O’Grady Hesperus Press, £6.99 Tablet bookshop price £6.30 Human Traces Sebastian Faulks Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Hutchinson, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 The Time Diaries Julian Fane Reviewed by David McLaurin Book Guild, £16.95 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 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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