A medical memoir takes a turn into the macabre
March 26, 2020
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33 Meditations on Death By David Jarrett Doubleday, 304pp, £19.99/$24.95 Had David Jarrett’s new book 33 Meditations on Death: Notes
Charles Péguy: a poet trapped between heaven and earth
March 26, 2020
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Carnal Spirits: The Revolutions of Charles Péguy By Matthew W Maguire University of Pennsylvania Press, 296pp, £58/$69.95 The paradoxes of
An exorcist tells it as it is
March 24, 2020
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I have just been reading the Telegraph obituary of Dorothy Maclean, co-founder of the New Age Findhorn Community. I suspect
A spiritual book to help you through self-isolation
March 23, 2020
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In a time of enforced home isolation, we people of faith have the opportunity to think, to ponder, to pray and to explore more seriously what really matters to us in life
Welcome to the age of involuntary solitude
March 19, 2020
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A History of Solitude By David Vincent Polity, 304pp, £25/$35 In one of those strange quirks of timing, David Vincent’s
The Bible’s women take centre stage
March 19, 2020
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The Anointed By Michael Arditti Arcadia Books, 286pp, £16.99/$24.95 The Bible is said to be the world’s bestselling book, and
‘Peaceful deaths are not always the most holy’
March 19, 2020
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A Time to Die By Nicolas Diat Ignatius Press, 180pp, £13.36/$12.99 Subtitled Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life, this
Catholic women were not all ‘underdogs’
March 12, 2020
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Women of the Vatican By Lynda Telford Amberley, 320pp, £20/$34.95 Lynda Telford claims to defend “the underdogs who have otherwise
The strange twilight of British conservatism
March 12, 2020
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Small Men on the Wrong Side of History By Ed West Constable, 352pp, £20/$20.70 Even before the death of Sir Roger
A joyously satirical Cluedo game of a novel
March 12, 2020
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In the Crypt with a Candlestick By Daisy Waugh Piatkus, 288pp, £16.99/$21.45 In Daisy Waugh’s new novel the Todes of
An urgent appeal for priestly celibacy
March 10, 2020
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Ignatius Press has sent me From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy and the Crisis of the Catholic Church,
The religion of Roger Scruton
March 10, 2020
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I have been rereading Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life (2005) by the late Sir Roger Scruton, who died in