Arts & Books
An Agatha Christie for the stag party era?
Mark Lawson reviews this month’s best crime fiction
‘Truly this was the Son of God’
I was moved to tears by a visionary approach to Bach’s great Passion, says Jens F Laurson
How cakes can put us in touch with the saints
Bonnie Lander Johnson on lessons from a parish kitchen
A deadly path from Mexico to the Oval Office
Will Gore reads a gripping conclusion to an epic trilogy about drug cartels
Hans Gál: The composer silenced by the Nazis – and musical snobs
It’s high time we rediscovered the noble music of Hans Gál, says Thelma Lovell
The forgotten forerunners of St Patrick
The Apostle of Ireland built on the work of other intrepid men, says David Platzer
Christians weren’t Ancient Rome’s only victims
James Baresel on the depravity and barbarism of the emperors
