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Contrapposto – a capacious canvas

06 August 2026 by James Moran

Speed reading: on the move

16 July 2026 by Julian George

Bewailing Brexit

18 June 2026 by Denis MacShane

A passionate record of death and mourning

18 June 2026 by Michèle Roberts

An economist and a politician – on how to propel the world towards a sustainable future

18 June 2026 by Aili Winstanley Channer

The smirking personification of evil

02 April 2026 by Ian Thomson

Wandering manuscripts

02 April 2026 by James Fergusson

Words lost in The Word

01 April 2026 by Aili Winstanley Channer

Speed Reading: the other Europe

19 March 2026 by Julian George

Queen Elizabeth II: she never let you down

21 January 2026 by Bess Twiston Davies

The Letter to the Ephesians: God’s eternal purpose laid bare

18 December 2025 by Rowan Williams

Speed reads for the winter chill

04 December 2025 by Chris Nancollas

Ripening harvest, homecoming – reading to prepare for Advent

13 November 2025 by Lavinia Byrne

Thirty years on, the author of Wild Swans recounts her flight from China

25 September 2025 by Ariane Bankes

James Fergusson speaks volumes

25 September 2025 by James Fergusson

Antisemitism is still going strong – but what is it?

24 September 2025 by Jennifer Lipman

Ian McEwan’s new novel – his most broken-backed yet?

21 September 2025 by Christopher Bray

Spiritual and religious books that open the eye of the heart

18 September 2025 by Lavinia Byrne

The old idea of the parish still has life in it

07 September 2025 by Theo Hobson

Luxuriating in the best of summer crime fiction

17 August 2025 by A.N. Wilson

Getting to the heart of Scotland’s national life

08 August 2025 by Brian Morton

A mission of love

03 August 2025 by Tabitha Smith

Allez, poltroon!

02 August 2025 by Peter Popham

Breaking up, breaking down

01 August 2025 by Franklin Nelson

The journey inward

31 July 2025 by A.N. Wilson

The Candle and the Chorus

25 July 2025 by Felicity Brown

Julian George on dream tickets

24 July 2025 by Julian George

Steppe by Steppe

24 July 2025 by Camille Ralphs

Memoirs and novels, diaries and poetry, biography, history and legal advice – our reviewers’ summer books

17 July 2025

19 July 2025 – The Tablet, the international Catholic weekly

17 July 2025

Books to boost spirits and strengthen faith

10 July 2025 by Lavinia Byrne

12 July 2025

10 July 2025

Walking the Great North Road

08 July 2025 by Patrick Hudson

Guessing at Bob Dylan’s inner life

07 July 2025 by Brian Morton

How Britain can bounce back

06 July 2025 by Julia Langdon

Hopes and dreams in rural Kentucky

05 July 2025 by Markie Robson-Scott

A disturbing story raises questions about the morality of overseas adoption

03 July 2025 by Emily Buchanan

A Caribbean anthology to reshape the canon

29 June 2025 by Michèle Roberts

What would you do if your frail mother was stuck in Vienna in 1939?

28 June 2025 by John Quin

The strange ship of James Joyce

27 June 2025 by Ian Thomson

Violence and redemption in Athenry

21 June 2025 by Sue Gaisford

One gobble and you’re gone – death in the ancient world

20 June 2025 by Noonie Minogue

Melanie McDonagh in the great outdoors

13 June 2025 by Melanie McDonagh

Merrily in Heaven

12 June 2025 by Michael Carter

Stories from a craftsman’s workshop

06 June 2025 by Harry Cochrane

A TV comedy writer seeks answers in nature

06 June 2025 by Isabel Lloyd

Speed reading: Iain Millar goes to the movies

06 June 2025 by Iain Millar

Lucy Popescu on standout debut novels

30 May 2025 by Lucy Popescu

The soil of scarcity

30 May 2025 by Charlie Pullen

Shakespeare – the bard unmasked

29 May 2025 by Mark Lawson

31 May 2025

29 May 2025

What feeds Gen Z?

23 May 2025 by Franklin Nelson

Cast out suffering from the soul

22 May 2025 by Harry Eyres

William Blake and the necessity of imagination

08 May 2025 by Fiona Sampson

Drowning in radiance

01 May 2025 by Luke Bell OSB

Pinochet’s impunity in Chile and London

24 April 2025 by Lucy Beckett

The new biography of St Francis of Assisi

24 April 2025 by Michael Cusato

Fiction: Nina Allan’s Granite Silence

24 April 2025 by Christopher Bray

Digging deep

17 April 2025 by Julia Langdon

Speed reading: Ruth Gledhill devours sci-fi

17 April 2025 by Ruth Gledhill

Our trustworthy saviour

17 April 2025 by David Fergusson

Writing for her life

17 April 2025 by Anne Chisholm

Empress, reformer, Mass-goer

17 April 2025 by John Jolliffe

Mine eyes have seen

17 April 2025 by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Why marriage is often just a pipe dream in the UK’s poor north-east

10 April 2025 by Joel Budd

Young and old, coping with autism

03 April 2025 by George Cochrane

How Central European émigrés transformed the British twentieth century

03 April 2025 by Ian Thomson

The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America

03 April 2025 by Rose Lyddon

Lent 2025: how to pray constantly

03 April 2025 by Sally Read

Fiction: Stories of Ireland

02 April 2025 by Mary Kenny

Weekdays in April, May and June 2025

27 March 2025 by Ashley Beck

Books for Lent: the prayers of a prisoner

27 March 2025 by David Shipley

What if a British prime minister refused to resign?

27 March 2025 by Oliver Letwin

The benign republic of Julian Barnes

27 March 2025 by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Speed reading

27 March 2025 by Jonathan Tulloch

Fiction: Colum McCann’s ‘Twist’

27 March 2025 by Anthony Gardner

Reading under cover: Poland and the CIA book club

27 March 2025 by Ariane Bankes

The hard facts of racism

20 March 2025 by Yasmin Abdel-Magied

Lives in Russia

20 March 2025 by Chris Nancollas

The human body – a personal guide

20 March 2025 by James Le Fanu

Fiction: Brussels under the Nazis

20 March 2025 by Lindsay Duguid

Kim Il-sung, the architect of North Korea

13 March 2025 by Simon Scott Plummer

Mirandola – Renaissance prodigy and polymath

13 March 2025 by Fernando Cervantes

Fiction: Saou Ichikawa’s body doubles

13 March 2025 by Katharine Quarmby

Books for Lent: Henri Nouwen and the Prodigal Son

13 March 2025 by Anthony Seldon

Christopher Butler – no typical monk

13 March 2025 by Michael Walsh

Against atheism: why we believe

13 March 2025 by Maddy Fry

Grotesque suspects

06 March 2025 by A.N. Wilson

An unlikely prophet

06 March 2025 by Nick Spencer

A dance of three veils

27 February 2025 by Luke Bell OSB

Cruel world

27 February 2025 by Andrew Rosenheim

Speed reading

27 February 2025 by Chris Nancollas

Couple trouble

26 February 2025 by Markie Robson-Scott

Ill wind

20 February 2025 by Morag MacInnes

Babies flew in arcs

20 February 2025 by Jane Thynne

Gadfly and midwife

20 February 2025 by Tom Hodgkinson

Lent jewels

20 February 2025 by Lavinia Byrne

Speed reading – pitch perfect

19 February 2025 by Patrick Hudson

Novel of the week

19 February 2025 by Suzi Feay

Happiest in his head

13 February 2025 by Lucy Lethbridge

Speed Reading

13 February 2025 by Lucy Popescu

Sequela Christi

13 February 2025 by Gemma Simmonds

Once a miner

13 February 2025 by Brian Morton

Straight paths to Dante

13 February 2025 by Fiona Sampson

Persecuted but not forsaken

06 February 2025 by Paul Keyte

Speed reading

06 February 2025 by Lucy Popescu

Gone girl

06 February 2025 by Mary Kenny

‘Palestine is a colour issue’

06 February 2025 by Lucy Beckett

Hello darlmess

05 February 2025 by Rachel Kelly

Hear, hear!

30 January 2025 by Julian Margaret Gibbs

Missing links

30 January 2025 by Markie Robson-Scott

Living in sin

30 January 2025 by Ian Bradley

1 Feb 2025

30 January 2025

Point-scoring polemics

30 January 2025 by Christopher Bray

Novel of the week

23 January 2025 by James Moran

What reason cannot know

23 January 2025 by Catherine Pepinster

The surest road to Heaven

23 January 2025 by Michael Carter

Speed reading

23 January 2025 by Chris Nancollas

A most civil war

23 January 2025 by Felicity Brown

The logic of the Cross – Lent book 2025

23 January 2025 by Erik Varden

Messages from God

16 January 2025 by A.N. Wilson

Untethered from reality

15 January 2025 by George Cochrane

Fiction responding to fact

09 January 2025 by Guy Stagg

Counting the cost

09 January 2025 by Fiona Sampson

Unconquered – Cardinal George Pell

09 January 2025 by Frank Brennan

Messiaen, racism, auks

02 January 2025 by Maggie Fergusson

Love in action

19 December 2024 by Liz Dodd

Locked-door mystery

19 December 2024 by A.N. Wilson

Frosty wind made moan

19 December 2024

Memoir, apologia, manifesto

19 December 2024 by Brian Morton

Our lady of exile

19 December 2024 by Luke Bell OSB

Undercover clergy

19 December 2024 by Chris Patten

All things are possible

12 December 2024 by Suzi Feay

Presents perfect

12 December 2024 by Melanie McDonagh

The tightrope act of plangency and cheerfulness

12 December 2024 by Declan Ryan

Wide-eyed and newly humbled

12 December 2024 by Austen Ivereigh

Lonely notes

05 December 2024 by Anthony Gardner

Seeds of hope

05 December 2024 by Isabel Lloyd

The structure of our souls – Jordan Peterson’s new book

05 December 2024 by Nick Spencer

A pilgrimage to the Northern Lights

05 December 2024 by Emily Bearn

Brushes with brilliance

05 December 2024 by Michael Glover