Well here’s a new one for me! I’ve been involved, alongside Andy Bannister, in putting a book together which will be launched in early April...

The back cover of this anthology of the late journalist's columns reads that it is: "by turns controversial, uplifting, unflinch...

The Russian writer Danil Granin used the word 'tosca' to describe the villages outside Novgorod, writes Rachel Polonsky. Russian...

Despite the rather dubious title, this is a great little book. Ralph Storer has written a lot of mountain related books, some of which ar...

In "White Mughals", William Dalrymple once more delves into the history of India, his adopted home, and place he clearly loves ...

Alister McGrath, is the latest of a long line of both admirers and critics of Clive Staples Lewis, to have write a biography of the write...

Neil Ansell's "The Last Wilderness" is simply a charming and rather wonderful book. There isn't really any kind of plot...

Tom Wright's biography of Paul (also known as Saul of Tarsus, Saint Paul or Paul the Apostle) is a brilliant read. I took it on holid...

In this fast-paced, lively and hugely enjoyable book, Mark Garnett (a politics lecturer somewhere or other), takes the reader on a rollic...

As readers of this blog will be aware, over the years, I have read about and reflected often on the Shoah , the Holocaust of the European...

Trueman is, I think, a one-off. A serious academic, working currently at Princeton; a British minister in the American Orthodox Presbyter...

I have very distinct memories of reading Maxwell's famous "Ring of Bright Water", many years ago while sitting in the Arizo...

A while ago, I had the pleasure of speaking to Dr Alister A. McGrath, who is Prof. of Science and Religion at Oxford University, about h...

It is sixty-eight years since the UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights was signed.  The lofty aspirations contained in that docum...