From the March 1998 Issue Maybe It’s Because He Was a Londoner The Life of Thomas More By Peter Ackroyd LR
From the April 1998 Issue Maybe It’s Because He Was a Londoner The Life of Thomas More By Peter Ackroyd LR
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From the June 2010 Issue A Different Cloth Newman’s Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint By John Cornwell LR
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From the September 2008 Issue Not That Nigh Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom By Tom Holland LR
From the June 2013 Issue Confessions & Retractions Saint Augustine of Hippo: An Intellectual Biography By Miles Hollingworth LR
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