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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueGod’s Advocates: Christian thinkers in conversationRupert Shortt Reviewed by Philip McCosker Darton, Longman & Todd, £12.95 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Auden and Christianity Arthur Kirsch Reviewed by Anthony Kenny Yale University Press, £18.95 Tablet bookshop price £17.10 Clay David Almond Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Hodder and Stoughton, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £10 Elizabeth Vigée LeBrun: the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution Gita May Reviewed by John McEwen Yale University Press, £20.95 Tablet bookshop price £18.45 Prisoner of Conscience Charles Yeats Reviewed by David McLaurin Rider, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Charles de Foucauld: in the footsteps of Jesus of Nazareth Annie of Jesus Reviewed by David McLaurin New City, £7.50 Tablet bookshop price £6.75 The Last of the Gentleman Adventurers Edward Beauclerk Maurice Reviewed by David McLaurin Harper Perennial, £8.99 Tablet bookshop price £8.20 History Play Rodney Bolt Reviewed by David McLaurin Harper Perennial, £8.99 Tablet bookshop price £8.20 Previous weeks reviewsBeau Brummell: the ultimate dandyIan Kelly Reviewed by Robert Thicknesse Hodder & Stoughton, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 A Little History of the World E.H. Gombrich Reviewed by Selina O’Grady Yale University Press, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 The Brooklyn Follies Paul Auster Reviewed by Michael McHale Faber & Faber, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 The Real Life of Anthony Burgess Andrew Biswell Reviewed by Ian Ker Picador, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Talk to the Hand Lynne Truss Reviewed by Libby Purves Profile Books, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 The Ruling Caste: imperial lives in the Victorian Raj David Gilmour Reviewed by David Goodall John Murray, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Classical World: an epic history from Homer to Hadrian Robin Lane Fox Reviewed by Dot Wordsworth Allen Lane, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World Adam Jacot de Boinod Reviewed by Dot Wordsworth Penguin, £10 Tablet bookshop price £9 Hudson’s English History: a compendium Roger Hudson Reviewed by Dot Wordsworth Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Long Words Bother Me Tom Burton Reviewed by Dot Wordsworth Sutton, £8.99 Tablet bookshop price £8.20 Duck in a Row: an A-Z of Offlish Carl Newbrook Reviewed by Dot Wordsworth Short Books, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 The Ancient Mariner David Jones Reviewed by Jeremy Hooker Enitharmon Press, £15 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Margrave of the Marshes John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft Reviewed by Andy Bull Bantam Press, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.20 The Wonder House Justine Hardy Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Atlantic Books, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Descartes: the life of René Descartes and its place in his times A.C. Grayling Reviewed by John Cottingham Free Press, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The writings of Descartes, the “father of modern philosophy”, are still part of the staple diet for philosophy students throughout the Western world. Countless undergraduates have ...  Mussolini’s Italy R.J.B. Bosworth Reviewed by David Willey Allen Lane, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Blitz: the story of 29th December 1940 M.J. Gaskin Reviewed by Christopher Herdon Faber & Faber, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Michael of Romania: the king and the country Ivor Porter Reviewed by Konstantin Eggert Sutton Publishing, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Gentlemen and Players Joanne Harris Reviewed by Matthew Wright Doubleday, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Books on Gunpowder Plot Various Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh , £See below Tablet bookshop price £See below God’s Secret Agents: traitors and religious freedom fighters in England from the Armada to the Gunpowder Plot Siegfried Sassoon Max Egremont Reviewed by P.J. Kavanagh Picador, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Owl of Minerva: a memoir Mary Midgley Reviewed by William Charlton Routledge, £22.50 Tablet bookshop price £19.75 The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion Reviewed by Kathy Watson HarperCollins, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Christ the Lord: out of Egypt Anne Rice Reviewed by David McLaurin Chatto & Windus, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 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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