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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueNot Quite the DiplomatChris Patten Reviewed by Stephen Wall Allen Lane, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The Milk of Paradise James Lees-Milne Reviewed by John Jolliffe John Murray, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Truth and Consequences Alison Lurie Reviewed by Mary Emma Baxter Chatto & Windus, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 Nobody’s Child: who are you when you don’t know your past? Kate Adie Reviewed by Betka Zamoyska Hodder & Stoughton, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The White Darkness Geraldine McCaughrean Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs OUP, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 The Innocent’s Story Nicky Singer Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs OUP, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Powder Monkey Paul Dowswell Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Bloomsbury, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Seeker William Nicholson Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Egmont, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Previous weeks reviewsNature as Reason: a Thomistic theory of the natural lawJean Porter Reviewed by Margaret Atkins Alban Books, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.10 Faith, Reason and the Existence of God Denys Turner Reviewed by Brian Davies Cambridge University Press, £27.99 Tablet bookshop price £25.20 A Sense of the Sacred: theological foundations of Christian architecture and art Kevin Seasoltz Reviewed by Anthony Symondson Continuum, £24.99 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Secular Lives, Sacred Hearts Alan Billings Reviewed by Frank Field SPCK, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £10 Captive Flames: a biblical reading of the Carmelite saints James McCaffrey OCD Reviewed by Wilfrid Harrington Veritas, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 The Secret Ladder: a spiritual adventure Noreen Mackey Reviewed by Rachel Howell Darton, Longman & Todd, £10.95 Tablet bookshop price £10 Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe Ed. Will Coster and Andrew Spicer Reviewed by Christopher Howse Cambridge University Press, £50 Tablet bookshop price £45 Befriending the Stranger Jean Vanier Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Darton, Longman & Todd, £8.95 Tablet bookshop price £8.20 With Unveiled Face: a pastoral and theological exploration of shame Paul Goodliff Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Darton, Longman & Todd, £9.95 Tablet bookshop price £9 Gospel Childhood: the ‘Little Way’ of St Thérèse of Lisieux for everyone Elizabeth Ruth Obbard Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge New City, £5.95 Tablet bookshop price £5.40 God in the Moment: making every day a prayer Kathy Coffey Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Orbis, £8.99 Tablet bookshop price £8.20 Untold Stories Alan Bennett Reviewed by Christopher Howse Faber/Profile Books, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 ALAN BENNETT’s mother – his Mam – became depressed in 1966 when her quiet, violin-playing husband retired from his unlikely trade as a butcher and they moved into a country village. ...  The Irish Benedictines: a history Ed. 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 Shakespeare: the biography Peter Ackroyd Reviewed by Oliver Bernard Chatto & Windus, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 My first acquaintance with Shakespeare began more than 70 years ago, reading The Merchant of Venice with my sister and the elder of my two brothers at a table with my father. ... Ripped and Torn: Levi’s, Latin America and the blue jean dream Amaranta 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 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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