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Latest issue: 25 May 2013
Last updated: 26 May 2013

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Tablet Shop


Tablet Bookshop

In partnership with Redemptorist Publications, each week we offer you the opportunity to purchase any of the books reviewed in The Tablet, with 10% off the recommended retail price.

Postage and Packing:

UK:  £1.95 per book (4 books or more add £5)
Europe: £2.25 per book
Rest of the world: £2.75 per book

You can place your order:

By mail: The Tablet Bookshop, Alphonsus House, Chawton, Hampshire, GU34 3HQ
By Phone: +44 (0) 1420 592 974
By Fax: +44 (0) 1420 888 05
By Email:
tabletbookshop@rpbooks.co.uk

Cheques payable to "Redemptorist Publications"
We accept Visa, Mastercard, Switch and Maestro.

This Week's Books:

Perilous Question: the drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 Free

Antonia Fraser
Reviewed by A.N. Wilson
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £20
Tablet Bookshop Price: £18


Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Daniel C. Dennett
Reviewed by John Cottingham
Allen Lane, £20
Tablet Bookshop Price: £18


This Boy: a memoir of a childhood

Alan Johnson
Reviewed by Julia Langdon
Bantam Press, £16.99
Tablet Bookshop Price: £15.30


Magda

Meike Ziervogel
Reviewed by Lucy Popescu
Salt, £9.99
Tablet Bookshop Price: £9



My Kind of Carol

 You voted for your favourite carols. We recorded them for you.

For many of us, hearing the first carols during Advent brings the realisation that Christmas is coming.  That was certainly the feeling of Tablet readers who nominated and voted for their favourite carols last year.

We are now pleased to bring you this beautiful CD featuring the award-winning Exmoor Singers of London singing Tablet readers' Top 10 carols, some that didn't quite make that list plus a selection of more unusual ones, including At the Nativity and Peaceful Was the Night which, as far as we know, have not been commercially recorded before. 

The CD covers the whole Advent season right through to Epiphany, and is accompanied by a booklet containing all the lyrics for the carols.

Full CD track listing

1. Of the Father's Love Begotten
2. A Spotless Rose
3. Gabriel's Message (The Angel Gabriel)
4. Bethlehem Down
5. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (Veni, Veni, Emmanuel)
6. In the Bleak Midwinter
7. Christe, Redemptor Omnium
8. O Little Town of Bethlehem
9. Peaceful Was The Night
10. Once in Royal David's City
11. O Little One Sweet, O Little One Mild
12. O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël/Christmas Song)
13. Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
14. Candlelight Carol
15. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
16. At the Nativity (Gloomy Night)
17. Good King Wenceslas
18. O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)
19. Coventry Carol
20. The Three Kings
21. Sans Day Carol

Total timing: 76'23

Find out more

 


Binders 

Essential if you want to keep past issues together, the smart binders are dark green with The Tablet logo embossed in gold on the spine. Three binders hold a year's worth of Tablets.

Single binders £7.00 includes 20% VAT - 3 required for 1 year (PP for each: UK £1.90, Europe and ROW £3.79)

Available direct from The Tablet offices.

Indexes

2005, 2006 and 2007 Indexes are now available!

Useful for quick reference to past articles, these can be kept with your copies in the binders and list past articles under section heading, past letters and arts reviews. Cross referencing can also be undertaken with the list of contributors. Church in the world pieces are listed by country. Also invaluable for those wishing to undertake research, the indexes are available for the following prices:

Price: £6.00 includes 20% VAT (PP: UK 66p, Europe £1.68, ROW £2.66)

Available direct from The Tablet offices.

Payment Methods

For payments directed to The Tablet offices please see below:

Cheque
Please send us a sterling cheque to:

The Tablet
1 King Street Cloisters
Clifton Walk
London W6 OGY
Great Britain

Credit & Debit Cards

Or you can telephone us on +44 (0)20 8748 8484, fax your order to +44 (0)20 8748 1550 or post the following details to us at the above address:

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Any queries, please contact Pippa Lee


       

 In this week’s issue

Unlikely partnership
Take the knocks – they do the Church good
Narnia’s custodian
Gather them in
On our forebears’ shoulders
Muslims are living in fear after the Woolwich murder
Fiyaz Mughal

Gay marriage and disestablishment: better the muddle you know?
Theo Hobson

Medics don't want assisted dying legalised
Dr Gillian Paterson, guest contributor

Why do Catholic schools need to turn to Stonewall?
Elena Curti

Banishing O'Brien answers some questions, raises others
Abigail Frymann

Does Cardinal O’Brien deserve banishment or pardon? He at least owes us an explanation
Elena Curti, Deputy Editor

Take the knocks - they do the Church good
Popular culture is being surprisingly respectful of Catholicism now, argues Mark Lawson

Does religion get a fair treatment in television comedy? Giving the Digby Stuart Annual Lecture, Mark Lawson, The Tablet's theatre critic, surveyed the treatment of Catholicism, ...


Replace fear with boldness, cynicism with confidence
Lancaster bishop urges Church to ditch nostalgia and focus on mission

The Bishop of Lancaster, Michael Campbell, issued an impassioned plea for the Church to refocus on mission and look forwards rather than basking in its past achievements ...


Mary, inspiration for students
US Cardinal Timothy Dolan celebrates the secret of Notre Dame University

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, offers his reflections on Mary in the graduation speech to students at Notre Dame, one of the US's leading Catholic universities ...

Tiptoeing towards Scripture

Pope Benedict XVI has exhorted Catholics to become more familiar with their Bibles, in his round-up of the 2008 Synod on the Word of God. At the same time the Bible Society ...