That Hideous Man: December 2016

Recent Reads

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Marches by Rory Stewart
Rollin' and Tumbling: the postwar blues guitarists by Jas Obrecht
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer
Killing Thatcher by Rory Carroll
On the Slow Train by Michael Williams
The Challenge of Islam by Tim Dieppe
A United Ireland by Kevin Meagher
Night Train to Odessa by Jen Stout
Unapologetic by Francis Spufford
On the Slow Train by Michael Williams
White Knuckes, The Life and Music of Gary Moore by Martin Power
The Day of His Power by Pete Lowman
One for the Road, An Outback Adventure by Tony Horwitz
Koba the Dread by Martin Amis
Changed Into His Likeness by J. Gary Millar
Learning to Lament by Paul Mallard
No Picnic on Mount Kenya by Felice Benuzzi
Baghdad Without A Map by Tony Horwitz
Repackaging Christianity by Andrew Atherstone
Glass Warriors by Duncan Anderson
All Things New by Brian J. Tabb
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier
Spirit and Sacrament by Andrew Wilson
Abandoned USSR by Terence Abela
The Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum
The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher
The Portable Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
What God Has To Say About Our Bodies by Sam Alberry
A Spy Amongst Friends by Ben MacIntyre
Walking Through Twilight by Douglas Groothuis
The New Puritans by Andrew Doyle
God of All Things by Andrew Wilson
Charles G. Finney and The Spirit of American Evangelicalism by Charles E Hambrick-Stowe
Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden
Midnight Rising, John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz
The Whisperers by Orlando Figes
A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
Isaiah by Barry Webb
The Last Hillwalker by John D. Burns
Movies Are Prayers by Josh Larsen
Alone Together by Sherry Turkle
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry
The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Ottermann
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Biblical Critical Theory by Christopher Watkin
The Air We Breathe by Glen Scrivener
Timothy Keller, His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation by Collin Hansen
Fifty Literature Ideas You Need to Know by John Sutherland
Faithfulness on the Frontline by Mark Greene
Christianity in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo: From Ethic Captive to Reconciling Agent by David A. Steele in "Trumping Realpolitik, Faith-Based Diplomacy" edited by Douglas Johnston
Forgive by Timothy Keller
Genius, Grief and Grace by Gaius Davies
Jesus in Context by David Wenham
At Home by Bill Bryson
The Good God by Michael Reeves
Spying on the South byTony Horwitz
The Last Wolf by Jim Crumley
The Power of Geography by Tim Marshall

Older Reads

Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
The Last Days According to Jesus by R.C. Sproul
Making Sense of Life by Michael Ots
Heresy by Alister McGrath
Long Road from Jarrow by Stuart Maconie
Gulag by Anne Applebaum
Trans by Helen Joyce
Staines: A History by Pamela Maryfield
Stalin's Nose by Rory Maclean
Seven Days That Divide The World by John C. Lennox
A Praying Life by Paul Miller
Storms of Silence by Joe Simpson
Faithful Leaders by Rico Tice
The Secular Creed by Rebecca McLaughlin
Mere Evangelism by Randy Newman
Pravda Ha Ha by Rory MacLean
Bloc Life by Peter Molloy
Hope in Times of Fear by Timothy Keller
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses by Richard Bauckham
War and the Death of News by Martin Bell
Lenin's Private War by Lesley Chamberlain
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman
Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God? by Andy Bannister
Rejoice and Tremble by Michael Reeves
Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier
Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood by Aimee Byrd
Born (Again) This Way by Rachel Gilson
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
Being the Bad Guys by Stephen McAlpine
Gentle and lowly by Dane Ortland
The Cross and The Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
The Legacy of William Carey by Ruth & Vishal Mangalwadi
Where is God in all the Suffering? by Amy Orr-Ewing
The Word of The Lord, Seeing Jesus in the Prophets by Nancy Guthrie
Song of the Rolling Earth by John Lister-Kaye
Myth and Meaning in Jordan Peterson by Ron Dart (ed)
2084 by John Lennox
Through a Glass Darkly by Alister McGrath
Consumed by Hate, Redeemed by Love by Thomas Tarrants
Stumbling Towards Zion by David W. Smith
Jesus Through Muslim Eyes by Richard Schumack
How Christianity Changed the World by Alvin J. Schmidt
Thief Prisoner Soldier Priest by Paul Cowley
My Soul Looks Back in Wonder, Voices of the Civil Rights Experience ed by Juan Williams
Dead Man Blues, Jelly Roll Morton, Way Out West by Phil Pastras
Union with Christ by Rankin Wilbourne
Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts
The Impossible Country - A Journey Through The Last Days of Yugoslavia by Brian Hall
Unstuck by Tim Lane
The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
Give Up The Purple by Julyan Lidstone
The Trellis and The Vine by Colin Marshall & Tony Payne
Cultural Apologetics by Paul M. Gould
God is Good for You. by Greg Sheridan
Neither Bomb nor Bullet, Archbishop on the Front Line, by Ben Kwashi and Andrew Boyd
Come and Behold Him: Christmas Through Different Eyes by David J. Randall
The Best of A. A. Gill
Revelation by Ben Witherington III
Confronting Christianity by Rebecca McLaughlin
The Paradox of Happiness by Rene Bruel
Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War by Jeffrey Brooks
The War that Forged A Nation by James McPherson
Molotov's Magic Lantern by Rachel Polonsky
Bandits by Eric Hobsbawm
Openness Unhindered by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
Fifty Shades of Hillwalking by Ralph Storer
White Mughals by William Dalrymple
C.S. Lewis - A Life by Alister McGrath
The Last Wilderness by Neil Ansell
Paul: A Biography by Tom Wright
The Atheist Who Didn't Exist by Andy Bannister
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
Standing Up and Speaking Out: 40 Years of Fighting Injustice by Mervyn Thomas
The Historical Reliability of the New Testament by Craig Blomberg
When We Get it Wrong by Dominic Smart
Hellraiser by Ginger Baker
From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience Since 1975 by Mark Garnett
God in Public: How The Bible Speaks Truth to Power Today by Tom Wright
The Crucified Jew, Twenty Centuries of Christian Anti-Semitism by Dan Cohn-sherbok
Fools Rush In Where Monkeys Fear to Tread (Taking Aim At Everyone) by Carl Trueman
The House of Elrig by Gavin Maxwell
Dawkins' God by Alister McGrath
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
The House by The Dvina: A Russian Childhood by Eugenie Fraser
A Reed Shaken With The Wind by Kelvin J. Moller
Recollections of Victorian Birmingham by Stephen Roberts
The Age of Kali by William Dalrymple
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre
The People's Songs by Stuart Maconie
Primo Levi by Ian Thomson
Uncommon Ground, A Word-Lover's Guide to the British Landscape by Dominic Tyler
Living With the Living Dead, The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse by Greg Garrett
The Many Days, The Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig
The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 by William Dalrymple
Days of Rage, America's Radical Underground, the FBI and the Forgotten age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough
Confidence in the Living God, David & Goliath Revisited by Andrew Watson
Calum's Road by Roger Hutchinson
The Righteous - The Unsung Heroes of The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949 by Virginia Nicholson
Why The Rest Hates The West by Meic Pearse
Post Truth by Matthew D'Ancona
Stalin's Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan
The Return of a King by William Dalrymple
Everyday Church by Tim Chester and Steve Timmis
God's Unwelcome Recovery by Sean Oliver-Dee
Blues People by LeRoi Jones
Out There: A Voice From The Wild by Chris Townsend
A Better Story by Glynn Harrison
The Evolution of The West by Nick Spencer
Minority Report by Carl Trueman
You Can't Read This Book by Nick Cohen
Tommy: The British Soldier on The Western Front 1914-18 by Richard Holmes
Transgender by Vaughan Roberts
Autobiography by Eric Clapton
The Dark Night of The Shed by Nick Page
The Age of Evangelicalism: America's Born-again Years by Steven P. Miller
God and Race in American Politics by Mark Noll
The Invention of Russia, The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War by Arkady Ostrovsky
Karl Marx by Francis Wheen
Klansville, USA: the Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-era KKK by David Cunningham.
Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps and the Deep Roots of Rap by Elijah Wald
Thatcher Stole My Trousers by Alexei Sayle
The Varieties of Religious Repression: Why Governments Restrict Religion by Ani Sarkissian
The Gospel According to The Blues by Gary W. Burnett
Paradoxology by Krish Kandiah
Fire in the Canebrake: The last mass lynching in America by Laura Wexler
The Book That Made Your World by Vishal Mangalwadi
Deep South by Paul Theroux
From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple
The Seventies Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic Look At A Violent Decade by Gerard de Groot
Inventing the Universe: Why we can't stop talking about Science, Faith and God by Alister E. McGrath
Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe by Laura Jokush
Prayer by Timothy Keller
Not a Job, Not A Choice: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and The Global Sex Trade, by Janice G. Raymond
The Final Revolution, The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism by George Weigel
Waiting 'till The Midnight Hour, A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Peniel E. Joseph
You & Me Forever: Marriage in Light of Eternity by Francis Chan & Lisa Chan
The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch
My Soul Looks Back In Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience by Juan Williams
The 60s Unplugged by Gerard de Groot
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Societyand an early cry for Civil Rights by David Margolick
Covenant and Kingdom by Mike Breen
In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s by Clayborne Carson
Religion and Politics in the European Union: The Secular Canopy by Francois Foret
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: The Pursuit of Racial Justice in The Rural South by Richard A. Couto
Battles Christians Face by Vaughan Roberts
The Hell of it All by Charlie Brooker
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
The Locust Effect by Gary A Haughen and Victor Boutros
The Permanent Revolution by Alan Hirsch and Tim Catchim
Where Memories Go by Sally Magnusson
Lost and Found in Russia by Susan Richards
Auschwitz and The Allies: How the Allies responded to the news of Hitler's Final Solution by Martin Gilbert
Gulag Boss by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky
Christ to Coke: How Image becomes Icon by Martin Kemp
Imagine Church by Neil Hudson
The Journey of Modern Theology by Roger E. Olson
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montifiore
The Incomparable Christ by John R.W. Stott
Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson
Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering by Timothy Keller
Where do comedians go when they die? by Milton Jones
The Drowned and The Saved by Primo Levi
Waterloo Station through Time by John Christopher
Divided City: The Berlin Wall by Christian Bahr
An Utterly Exasperated History of Britain by John O'Farrell
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene Peterson
Stasiland by Anna Funder
In Search of the Perfect Pub by Paul Moody and Robin Turner
Of Big Hills and Wee Men by Peter Kemp
God's Adventurer: The Story of Stuart Windsor and The Persecuted Church by Stuart Windsor and Graham Jones
The Fifties Child: A Social History Through the Songs of Barclay James Harvest by Alex Torres
Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes by Kenneth Bailey
This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the [American] Civil War by James M. McPherson
The Black Cloud: Scottish Mountain Misadventures 1928-1966 by I.D.S. Thomspn
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
Born in Perth by Paul Philippou and Rob Hands
It's Only A Movie by Mark Kermode
The UDA by Henry Mcdonald and Jim Cusack
Philadelphia Stories: America's Literature of Race and Freedom by Samuel Otter
Scotland End to End: Walking the Goretex Scottish National Trail by Cameron McNeish
The IRA: A Secret History by Ed Moloney
America Unchained by Dave Gorman
If God, Then What? by Andrew Wilson
The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness by Timothy Keller
The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex by Mark Kermode
Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B Tyson
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
At the Loch of the Green Corrie by Andrew Greig
Fibber in the Heat by Miles Jupp
Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre
Children, Families and God by Lynn Alexander
Cairngorm John by John Allen
The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter
Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 by Hanna Diamond
Atheism's New Clothes by David H. Glass
Gunning for God: Why the New Atheists are Missing the Target by John C. Lennox
Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative by Carl R. Trueman
The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion by Stephen B. Oates
The Spirituals and The Blues by James Cone
Simply Jesus by Tom Wright
Screening the Blues by Paul Oliver
Mark Steel's In Town by Mark Steel
The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller and Kathy Keller
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Getting your kids through church without them ending up hating God, by Rob Parsons
Raven's Gate by Anthony Horowitz
The Language of God by Francis S. Collins
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race & its Legacy by Paul Hendrickson
Getting the Blues by Stephen J. Nichols
God Collar by Marcus Brigstocke
The Republic of Suffering: Death & The American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Lightnin' Hopkins, His Life and Blues by Alan Govenar
American Gospel by Jon Meacham
A Meal with Jesus by Tim Chester
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
Hope & Glory by Stuart Maconie
King's Cross by Timothy Keller
Deep Blues by Robert Palmer
Between Fundamentalism and Relativism: Religious Resources for a Middle Position, edited by Peter Berger
The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History by Eric P. Kaufman
The Parenting Book by Nicky & Sila Lee
Generous Justice by Tim Keller
Surviving Spike Milligan by John Antrobus
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
Captive State - The Corporate Takeover of Britain by George Monbiot
Between Heaven & Hell: A Dialogue Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley by Peter Kreeft
Counterfeit Gods by Timothy Keller
Bessie: Empress of the Blues by Chris Albertson
Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle
The Message of Ruth (BST) by David Atkinson
After Redemption: Jim Crow & The Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta 1875-1915 by John M. Giggie
Faith in the Halls of Power by D. Michael Lindsay
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
Flat Earth News by Nick Davies
Friends Like These by Danny Wallace
The Chartist Legacy by Ashcroft, Fyson & Roberts
Rough Crossings: Britain, The Slaves and The American Revolution by Simon Schama
Captured by a Better Vision by Tim Chester
Raised with Christ by Adrian Warnock
The Unsearchable Riches of Christ by D.M. Lloyd-Jones
Baptism Explored by D. Robin Taylor
There is A God by Anthony Flew
Baptism: Three Views edited by David F. Wright
The Valley of Vision, compiled by Arthur Bennet
I & II Kings an Introduction and Commentary by Donald J. Wiseman
The 'Have I Got News for You Guide to Modern Britain"
Should We Baptize Babies by T.E. Watson
Tramping the Scottish Hills by W. Kersley Holmes
Belching Out the Devil by Mark Thomas
Jesus Through the Centuries by Jaroslav Pelikan
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
Adventures on the High Teas by Stuart Maconie
Medicine Balls by Phil Hammond
Wayward Christian Soldiers by Charles Marsh
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
Wainwright in Scotland by A. Wainwright
Mission after Christendom by David Smith
Fire and Steam by Christian Wolmar
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen
What's Going On? by Mark Steel
Surprised by Hope by Tom Wright
Total Church by Tim Chester and Stephen Timmis
The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller
Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain: The Disinherited Spirit by Frank Proachaska
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Paisley by Steve Bruce
How to Really Love Your Child by Ross Campbell
And now let's move into a time of Nonsense by Nick Page
Delighting in the Trinity by Tim Chester
Comrades: Communism - A World History by Robert Service
The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
The Faith of Barack Obama by Stephen Mansfield
Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
Miles Daves: The Definitive Biography by Ian Carr
Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World (ed) C. J. Mahaney
You Can Change by Tim Chester
Aspects of the Atonement by I. Howard Marshall
Sorrows of the Moon by Iqbal Ahmed
The Reason for God by Timothy Keller
The Dawkins Letters by David Robertson
Cider with Roadies by Stuart Maconie
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Pride by Michael Eric Dyson
The Intelligent Church by Steve Chalke & Anthony Watkis
In Retrospect: Remembrance of Things Past by F.F. bruce
The Highland Line by Tom Weir
The Soldier's Return by Melvyn Bragg

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