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…
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0649 | A Tale of Love and Darkness | Amos Oz
This moving autobiographical tale of Oz’s childhood is fascinating in that it gives a child’s view of the 1948 establishment of the state of Israel and what it was like…
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0467 | Life of Christ | Giovanni Papini
By 1921 when this was published, Papini was a man deeply passionate for Christ. This is apparent from the very introduction, let alone throughout the commentary he has written on…
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0466 | A Line in the Sand | James Barr
What the chart of my progress below does not reveal is that the day I started this was in fact in May 2013 whereas I didn’t finish it, after a…
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0418 | The Great War for Civilisation | Robert Fisk
Like Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, this is the agonising tale of humanity bravely told. Fisk displays the full range of his encyclopaedic knowledge of the Middle East, knowledge…
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0400 | In the Heart of the Seas | Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Context: Finished this off while lying on a new memory foam topper that I bought for our bed. Mmmmmemory foooooaaaaaammmmmm! REVIEW Here’s a strange book. I spent most of this…
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0316 | The Last Temptation | Nikos Kazantzakis
Context: Read this while we took the nephews and niece to an adventure farm in County Durham. REVIEW One of the most bizarre books I’ve read for a long time…
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0309 | Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ – Lew Wallace
Context: Finished this off as I waited four hours for my connecting flight to Port Moresby at Nadzab Airport just outside Lae. REVIEW All I could think about was the…
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0255 | Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
Context: Read this as we visited the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Inside there was a statue commissioned by Hadrian of his lover, Antinous. Unfortunately, they wouldn’t let me take a…