For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Catholicism

August 1996 Issue

Hugh Trevor-Roper

What Would Have Happened If It Had Worked

The Gunpowder Plot

By Antonia Fraser

June 2003 Issue

Giles FitzHerbert

A Man Called Fish

The Times of My Life

By Sir John Gorman

November 2003 Issue

Damian Thomspon

A Beatific Beauty

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

By Kathryn Harrison

November 2010 Issue

Richard Greene

The Holy Muse

The Pen and the Cross: Catholicism and English Literature 1850–2000

By Richard Griffiths

March 2009 Issue

John Guy

Defender Of The Brand

Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England

By Kevin Sharpe

August 2008 Issue

Toby Barnard

Brewing Troubles

God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland

By Micheál O’Siochrú

September 2008 Issue

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Not That Nigh

Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

By Tom Holland

March 2008 Issue

Mary Kenny

Caught in the Crossfire

Watching the Door: Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast

By Kevin Myers

March 2008 Issue

Peter Marshall

Cloistered Lives

The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery

By Geoffrey Moorhouse

October 2007 Issue

Edward Norman

Conflict & Catholicism

Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970–2000

By R F Foster

Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789–2006

By Paul Bew

February 2005 Issue

Michael Burleigh

Bush’s Buddies

The Right Nation: Why America is Different

By John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

Neoconservatism

By Irwin Stelzer (Ed)

April 2012 Issue

Edward Norman

King Takes Bishop

Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim – A 900-Year-Old Story Retold

By John Guy

John Guy

Great Matter, Small Fry

Our Man in Rome: Henry VIII & His Italian Ambassador

By Catherine Fletcher

Nicholas Vincent

Devil’s Advocates

The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe

By R I Moore

July 2012 Issue

Peter Marshall

Reformation Blues

The Late Medieval English Church: Vitality and Vulnerability before the Break with Rome

By G W Bernard

February 2005 Issue

Jonathan Keates

Daddy’s Girl

The Pope’s Daughter

By Caroline P Murphy

April 2005 Issue

Michael Burleigh

Papal Fallacies

The Pius War: Responses to the Critics of Pius XII

By Joseph Bottum and David G Dalin (Ed)

February 2013 Issue

Peter Marshall

Come All Ye Faithful

Trent: What Happened at the Council

By John W O’Malley

November 2013 Issue

William Doino

Altared States

Can We Save the Catholic Church?

By Hans Küng

December 2013 Issue

Jonathan Keates

Saint & Sinner

Raven: The Turbulent World of Baron Corvo

By Robert Scoble