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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueLorenzo Da Ponte: the man who wrote MozartAnthony Holden Reviewed by Robert Thicknesse Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.10 Mozart and his Operas David Cairns Reviewed by Robert Thicknesse Allen Lane, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Alfred the Great: the man who made England Justin Pollard Reviewed by Betka Zamoyska John Murray, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 A Catholic Eton? Newman’s Oratory School Paul Shrimpton Reviewed by David Goodall Gracewing, £17.99 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 Talking About It Tim Parks Reviewed by Philip Womack Hesperus, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Is Mr Ruskin Living Too Long?: selected writings of E.W. Godwin on Victorian architecture, design and culture Ed. Juliet Kinchin and Paul Stirton Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin White Cockade Publishing, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Previous weeks reviewsUkraine’s Orange RevolutionAndrew Wilson Reviewed by Konstantin Eggert Yale University Press, £18.95 Tablet bookshop price £17.10 Snow Ellen Mattson Reviewed by David McLaurin Jonathan Cape, £10.99 Tablet bookshop price £10 Slovenia 1945: memories of death and survival after World War II John Corsellis and Marcus Ferrar Reviewed by Richard Bassett I.B. Tauris, £24.50 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Post-War: a history of Europe since 1945 Tony Judt Reviewed by Michael Burleigh Heinemann, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Tony Judt’s monumental history of post-war Europe is primarily designed to explain Europe to an American audience, at a time when acute strains in transatlantic relationships have ...  Teacher Man Frank McCourt Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Fourth Estate, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.20 Christian Zionism: road-map to Armageddon Stephen Sizer Reviewed by Victoria Clark Inter-Varsity Press, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 The Daily Telegraph Book of Hymns Ian Bradley Reviewed by Keith Mitchell Continuum, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Get a Life Nadine Gordimer Reviewed by Matthew Wright Bloomsbury, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Chains of Heaven Philip Marsden Reviewed by Bruce Clark HarperCollins, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 The songs performed by Ethiopia’s wandering musicians have to be understood on at least two levels: in a popular analogy with the lost-wax casting process, there is said to be a ... The letters of the Reverend Patrick Brontë Ed. Dudley Green Reviewed by Nonsuch, £16 Tablet bookshop price £14.40 No Man’s Land Graham Greene Reviewed by Euan Cameron Hesperus, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Messiaen Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone Reviewed by John Amis Yale University Press, £19.95 Tablet bookshop price £18 No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy Reviewed by Michael McHale Picador, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 The Spiritual Dimension: religion, philosophy and human value John Cottingham Reviewed by Fergus Kerr Cambridge University Press, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 This beautifully written and beautifully produced book has the mosaic of the Good Shepherd from the lunette of the Galla Placidia Mausoleum, Ravenna, as a cover illustration ... The Naming of Names Anna Pavord Reviewed by Stephen Gardiner Bloomsbury, £30 Tablet bookshop price £27 Lancelot Andrewes: selected sermons and lectures Ed. Peter McCullough Reviewed by Diarmaid MacCulloch Oxford University Press, £90 Tablet bookshop price £81 Jamie’s Italy Jamie Oliver Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh Michael Joseph, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Arabesque Claudia Roden Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh Michael Joseph, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Kitchen Diaries Nigel Slater Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh Fourth Estate, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Tamasin’s Kitchen Bible Tamasin Day-Lewis Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh Weidenfeld, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Peggy Porschen’s Pretty Party Cakes Peggy Porschen Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh Quadrille, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £18.10 A Lifetime of Mountains: the best of A. Harry Griffin’s Country Diary Ed. Martin Wainwright Reviewed by Ronald Blythe Aurum, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Beware of God Shalom Auslander Reviewed by David McLaurin Picador, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Hetty Dorval Ethel Wilson Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Persephone, £10 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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