Last Days In Cleaver Square, by Patrick McGrath, reviewed by Elisa Segrave

Malice in Wonderland: My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton, by Hugo Vickers, reviewed by Nicky Haslam

Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife, by Alison Weir, reviewed by Linda Porter

Dorothy L Sayers found fulfilment in the life of the mind, if not in others, writes Melanie McDonagh

Sir Bill Cash reviews The Impossible Office? The History of the British Prime Minister, by Anthony Seldon

Sylvana Tomaselli reviews The Innocence of Pontius Pilate: How the Roman Trial of Jesus Shaped History, by David Lloyd Dusenbury

Melanie McDonagh reviews The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos, by Sohrab Ahmari

Crime novelist Dorothy L Sayers is the unlikely inspiration for a growing grassroots movement in the US giving Catholic students a classical education

As a guide about how to plan and think, Catholicism could answer the deepest concerns of the contemporary age, reasons Gladden Pappin

The 2021-2022 Genesis Jewish Book Week Emerging Writers Programme is open to applicants with at least 18 years of age and living in the UK, who have no more than three years’ experience of being published and feel they would benefit from the support and insight of an established writer.

Nick Ripatrazone explores the spiritual songbook of one of the great contemporary American artists, Bruce Springsteen.

There is no pulling of punches about what is to blame for this second flood: it lies squarely at the feet of modern life.