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0719 | A History of the Early Church | Hans Lietzmann
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0719 | A History of the Early Church | Hans Lietzmann

Completed27 February, 202114 March, 2021

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…

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0717 | Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere | Jan Morris
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0717 | Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere | Jan Morris

Completed9 February, 202111 March, 2021

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…

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0716 | Seeing Islam as Others Saw It | Robert Hoyland
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0716 | Seeing Islam as Others Saw It | Robert Hoyland

Completed7 February, 202127 February, 2021

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…

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0715 | Stick and Rudder | Wolfgang Langewiesche
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0715 | Stick and Rudder | Wolfgang Langewiesche

Completed23 January, 202113 March, 2021

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…

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0714 | Corrections in Early Qur’an Manuscripts | Daniel Brubaker
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0714 | Corrections in Early Qur’an Manuscripts | Daniel Brubaker

Completed3 January, 202113 March, 2021

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,…

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0712 | Flat Earth | Christine Garwood
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0712 | Flat Earth | Christine Garwood

Completed30 December, 202015 January, 2021

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….

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0711 | Nothing to Envy | Barbara Demick
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0711 | Nothing to Envy | Barbara Demick

Completed23 December, 202015 January, 2021

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,…

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0709 | The Triune God | Fred Sanders
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0709 | The Triune God | Fred Sanders

Completed16 December, 202012 January, 2021

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…

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0708 | The Gospel According to John | D. A. Carson
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0708 | The Gospel According to John | D. A. Carson

Completed23 November, 202012 January, 2021

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…

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0707 | Hue 1968 | Mark Bowden
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0707 | Hue 1968 | Mark Bowden

Completed6 November, 202012 January, 2021

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…

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0706 | The Deep Things of God | Fred Sanders
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0706 | The Deep Things of God | Fred Sanders

Completed17 October, 202012 January, 2021

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…

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0702 | Did Muhammad Exist? | Robert Spencer

Completed24 August, 202027 December, 2020

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…

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0700 | No God But One: Allah or Jesus | Nabeel Qureshi

Completed26 July, 202023 December, 2020

The strength of this book lies in its unique perspective. Very few books comparing Islam and Christianity are written by people who have been committed to both camps. If there…

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0697 | The Madness of Crowds | Douglas Murray

Completed13 June, 202019 December, 2020

Boy, I needed this. A birthday present from my sister that really hit the spot. Murray is a gay Spectator magazine columnist so not exactly the kind of writer I…

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0693 | Architecture Transformed | Cervin Robinson & Joel Herschman

Completed11 April, 202028 September, 2020

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,…

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0691 | Touch | David Linden

Completed1 April, 202017 September, 2020

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…

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0689 | Falling Upward | Richard Rohr

Completed29 March, 20205 September, 2020

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…

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0687 | Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy | Max Hastings

Completed25 March, 202028 August, 2020

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….

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