Book reviewed in this issue

The most cordial of rivals
That Sweet Enemy
Robert and Isabelle Tombs
Reviewed by Alain Woodrow

Great British Bus Journeys: travels through unfamous places
David McKie
Reviewed by John Morrish

The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and nine turbulent weeks in Arles
Martin Gayford
Reviewed by Laura Gascoigne

Return to Akenfield: portrait of an English village in the 21st century
Craig Taylor
Reviewed by Kate Kavanagh

The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

The Prince
Hushang Golshiri
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Buried Treasure: travels through the jewel box
Victoria Finlay
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards

Perfect Madness: motherhood in the age of anxiety
Judith Warner
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs

E. McKnight Kauffer: a designer and his public
Mark Haworth-Booth
Reviewed by Michael Estorick

Yob Nation: the truth about Britain's yob culture
Francis Gilbert
Reviewed by Andy Bull

Previous weeks reviews

All desires satisfied but am I happy?
A Brief History of Happiness
Nicholas White
Reviewed by Jane O’Grady

Love, Life, Goethe: how to be happy in an imperfect world
John Armstrong
Reviewed by Jane O’Grady

The Secrets of Happiness
Richard Schoch
Reviewed by Jane O’Grady

The Cave of the Heart: the life of Swami Abhishiktananda
Shirley du Boulay
Reviewed by Laurence Freeman

The Other Side of You
Salley Vickers
Reviewed by Kathy Watson

Those Who Trespass Against Us: one woman’s war against the Nazis
Karolina Lanckoronska
Reviewed by Jonathan Luxmoore

Paradoxes of a superpope
John Paul II: man of history
Edward Stourton
Reviewed by John Wilkins

Joy Lasts: on the spiritual in art
Sister Wendy Beckett
Reviewed by John McEwen

The Garden
Elsie V. Aidinoff
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs

Has Science Displaced the Soul? debating love and happiness
Kevin Sharpe and Rebecca Bryant
Reviewed by Edward Skidelsky

Bad Faith: a forgotten history of family and fatherland
Carmen Callil
Reviewed by Mary Kenny

Approaching Easter
Jane Williams
Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge

Wounded Prophet: a portrait of Henri J. M. Nouwen
Michael Andrew Ford
Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge

Presences Felt: encounters in a lost century
Andrew Chandler
Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge

Silence Transformed Into Life
John Paul II
Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge

Orkney’s convivial hermit poet
George Mackay Brown: a life
Maggie Fergusson
Reviewed by P.J. Kavanagh

Beckett Remembering/ Remembering Beckett
Ed. James and Elizabeth Knowlson
Reviewed by Robert Nye

Sacrifices
Michael Fishwick
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Rethinking Augustine’s early theology: an argument for continuity
Carol Harrison
Reviewed by Robert Markus

Blue Shoes and Happiness
Alexander McCall Smith
Reviewed by Piers McGrandle

Too Close to the Sun: the life and times of Denys Finch Hatton
Sara Wheeler
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards

Only ‘real’ catholics allowed
Hell and Other Destinations
Piers Paul Read
Reviewed by Peter Cornwell

Rediscovering Abundance: interdisciplinary essays on wealth, income and their distribution in the Catholic social tradition
Ed. Helen Alford et al
Reviewed by Edward Hadas

Look Me in the Eye: a life in televison
Jeremy Isaacs
Reviewed by Roger Bolton

Wilfred Thesiger: the great explorer
Alexander Maitland
Reviewed by Shelby Tucker

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