0719 | A History of the Early Church | Hans Lietzmann
This is a rare four-volume set focussing on the history of the Christian church from the time of the apostles through to … well, when Lietzmann died in 1942 with…
0717 | Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere | Jan Morris
A very, very long time ago, I read a trilogy by a man name James Morris, the sublime Pax Britannica. It wasn’t until many years later that I realised the…
0716 | Seeing Islam as Others Saw It | Robert Hoyland
What Hoyland has tackled here is no less than a complete literary survey of any non-Islamic writing that refers to Islam between its 630 AD emergence and 780 when it…
0715 | Stick and Rudder | Wolfgang Langewiesche
I’ve always been fascintated by flying and, since building myself a computer that can cope with it, I’ve been using a flight simulator to teach myself how to fly. Stick…
0714 | Corrections in Early Qur’an Manuscripts | Daniel Brubaker
Dr Brubaker’s work has caused something of a minor stir in the centuries-old arena that is Christian-Muslim dialogue. While the world waits for publication of his more technical doctorate-level work,…
0712 | Flat Earth | Christine Garwood
Just before Christmas, this popped through the door completely anonymously. Tearing it open, it sounded like just the thing to while away a day or so reading over the break….
0711 | Nothing to Envy | Barbara Demick
Barbara Demick has struck exactly the right tone in her classic description of life in North Korea. Granted, the book was written in 2009 so it’s a bit dated now,…
0709 | The Triune God | Fred Sanders
Having completed The Deep Things of God by Sanders only recently, I was encouraged by that to continue with The Triune God, a book I was having a hard time…
0708 | The Gospel According to John | D. A. Carson
I read this meticulously over three years and loved every single minute of it. Previously, I’ve not been an avid fan of Bible commentaries. You can often find yourself following…
0707 | Hue 1968 | Mark Bowden
While Max Hastings attempted to do the impossible and cover the entire 14 years plus of the American War in Indochina, Mark Bowden humbles himself before the historic edifice and…
0706 | The Deep Things of God | Fred Sanders
The vast majority of us Christians aren’t as informed on the character of the God we worship as we should be. Neither are we adept at moving out of our…
0702 | Did Muhammad Exist? | Robert Spencer
Oh, what a question? How could you even ask that? But, yes, this is exactly the kind of question Islam should be subjected to. For the last 200 years, beginning…
0693 | Architecture Transformed | Cervin Robinson & Joel Herschman
I’m trying somehow to reconcile my love of architectural photography with the demands of the MA in Photography that I’m currently studying. I’m in the first year of three and,…
0691 | Touch | David Linden
This has the subtitle The Science of the Sense that Makes Us Human, but nowhere in it will you find an explanation as to why touch apparently makes us any…
0689 | Falling Upward | Richard Rohr
Not a man I’ll read any more of, but this one was recommended to me by some friends and none other than my wife so I wasn’t about to refuse…
0687 | Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy | Max Hastings
It’s hard to know where to start with the Vietnam War such was the lengthy prelude that the people of that nation were subjected to by the French and Japanese….
0685 | On Photography | Susan Sontag
There’s at least one photo project on every page of this classic work on photography and there’s good reason for that. Sontag writes eloquently and persuasively about the medium and…
0666 | The Labyrinth of Solitude | Octavio Paz
This is for die-hard fans of literature really. Very philosophical, this collection of essays wasn’t my cup of tea at all despite whatever place it may hold in Latin America…