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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueSanta: a lifeJeremy Seal Reviewed by Desmond Seward Picador, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Roman Catholicism: the basics Michael Walsh Reviewed by Alban McCoy Routledge, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9.10 Mother’s Milk Edward St Aubyn Reviewed by Philip Womack Picador, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 River Café Two Easy Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh Ebury, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Food Wales Colin Pressdee Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh Graffeg, £12.95 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Roast Chicken and Other Stories Simon Hopkinson Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh Ebury, £12 Tablet bookshop price £10.80 The Elder, in History, Myth and Cookery Ria Loohuizen Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh Prospect Books, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9.10 Constitutional Helen Simpson Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Jonathan Cape, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Previous weeks reviewsThe King’s Reformation: Henry VIII and the remaking of the English ChurchG.W. Bernard Reviewed by Eamon Duffy Yale University Press, £29.95 Tablet bookshop price £27 Melville: his world and work Andrew Delbanco Reviewed by Robert Nye Picador, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Promises to Keep: thoughts in old age Richard Hoggart Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Continuum, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Beyond a Boundary C.L.R. James Reviewed by Michael Estorick Yellow Jersey Press, £7.99 Tablet bookshop price £7.20 Romanesque Churches of France Peter Strafford Reviewed by Alain Woodrow Giles de la Mare, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 The Narnian: the life and imagination of C.S. Lewis Alan Jacobs Reviewed by Christopher Howse SPCK, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Two irresistible attachments of the heart dominated the greater part of C.S. Lewis’ life. For 30 years, Jack Lewis, as his family knew him, lived with Janie Moore, the mother of ...  God’s Advocates: Christian thinkers in conversation Rupert 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 La Vie en Bleu: France and the French since 1900 Rod Kedward Reviewed by Philip Crispin Allen Lane, £30 Tablet bookshop price £27 In 1903, a handful of Premonstratensian monks in Nantes received a government order to dissolve themselves and leave their monastery within days. The state was determined, as a matter ... Beau Brummell: the ultimate dandy Ian 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 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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