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Book ReviewsBook reviewed in this issueBait and Switch: the futile pursuit of the corporate dreamBarbara Ehrenreich Reviewed by Michael McHale Granta, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Van Rijn Sarah Emily Miano Reviewed by Kathy Watson Picador, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 The Collected Letters of Peter Warlock Ed. Barry Smith Reviewed by John Amis The Boydell Press, £200 Tablet bookshop price £180 Selected Letters of Michael Tippett Ed. Thomas Schuttelheim Reviewed by John Amis Faber, £25 Tablet bookshop price £22.50 The Dream of Rome Boris Johnson Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune HarperPress, £18.99 Tablet bookshop price £17.10 According to Robin Julian Fane Reviewed by David McLaurin Book Guild, £16.99 Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Previous weeks reviewsAncient Americans: re-writing the history of the New WorldCharles C. Mann Reviewed by Richard Rodriguez Granta, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The House by the Thames Gillian Tindall Reviewed by Christopher Howse Chatto & Windus, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 The Perfect King: the life of Edward III, father of the English nation Ian Mortimer Reviewed by Betka Zamoyska Jonathan Cape, £20 Tablet bookshop price £18 Hunger: an unnatural history Sharman Apt Russell Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Basic Books, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 The Ice Soldier Paul Watkins Reviewed by David McLaurin Faber & Faber, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Apocalypse Now? Reflections on faith in a time of terror Duncan B. Forrester Reviewed by Brian Wicker Ashgate, £15.99 Tablet bookshop price £14 Things Shaken, Things Unshaken: reflections on faith and terror In the wake ...  Things Shaken, Things Unshaken: reflections on faith and terror Colin Morris Reviewed by Brian Wicker Epworth, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 Theology in the Public Square: Church, academy and nation Gavin D’Costa Reviewed by Fergus Kerr Blackwell Publishing, £22.90 Tablet bookshop price £21.70 Christianity: the complete guide Ed. John Bowden Reviewed by Michael Walsh Continuum, £35 Tablet bookshop price £31.50 The Miracle, the Message, the Story: Jean Vanier and L’Arche Kathryn Spink Reviewed by Austen Ivereigh Darton, Longman & Todd, £12.95 Tablet bookshop price £11.60 Bound by the Bible: Jews, Christians and the sacrifice of Isaac Edward Kessler Reviewed by Walter Moberly Cambridge University Press, £45 Tablet bookshop price £40.50 The English Church Tim Tatton-Brown and John Crook Reviewed by Richard Lethbridge New Holland, £29.99 Tablet bookshop price £26 Suffolk Churches David Stanford Reviewed by Richard Lethbridge Frances Lincoln, £14.99 Tablet bookshop price £13.50 Business and Religion: a clash of civilisations? Nicholas Capaldi Reviewed by Kit Dollard Scrivener Press , £42 Tablet bookshop price £37.60 Aspects of Aquinas Francis Selman Reviewed by Timothy McDermott Veritas, £9.90 Tablet bookshop price £9 The China Years 1925-52: the life and letters of the Rev Clifford and Mrs Cook ed. Raymond Cook Reviewed by David McLaurin Marion Boyars, £8.95 Tablet bookshop price £9 Holy Cross: a personal experience Aidan Troy Reviewed by David McLaurin Currach Press, £9.99 Tablet bookshop price £9 A Spiritual Odyssey: diary of an ordinary Catholic Brian O’Hare Reviewed by David McLaurin Columba, £10.50 Tablet bookshop price £9.50 The Ford of Heaven: a childhood in Tianjin, China Brian Power Reviewed by David McLaurin Signal Books, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Then They Started Shooting Lynne Jones Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh Harvard University Press, £18.95 Tablet bookshop price £17.10 Most of us nowadays talk about catastrophic or tragic events as “traumatic”; most of us accept blindly post-traumatic stress disorder as an affliction as objective as measles; most ... Revolution: the great crisis of the British monarchy, 1685-1720 Tim Harris Reviewed by Diarmaid MacCulloch Allen Lane, £30 Tablet bookshop price £27 We Are Iran Ed. and translated by Nasrin Alavi Reviewed by Isobel Alexander Portobello, £12.99 Tablet bookshop price £11.70 Kipling Jad Adams Reviewed by David Goodall Granta, £18 Tablet bookshop price £16.20 Second Honeymoon Joanna Trollope Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge Bloomsbury, £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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