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Shocking Us Into Salvation
Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval Churches by Anthony Weir and James Jerman (Batsford, £17.50). THE sculptures discussed in this book were executed mostly on the......
Psychic Forces And
1 cover-up The Hidden Power by Brian Inglis (Jonathan Cape, £10.95). READING this book, I wondered if there is an intentional double meaning in the title: for while it is mainly......
Addicted To Motherhood
The Pebbled Shore: The Memoirs of Elizabeth Longford. (Weidenfeld, £14.95). HISTORY provides some fascinating might-have-beens. Elizabeth Longford as the first woman Labour......
Irish Bishops Versus The 'black And Tans'
The Vatican, The Bishops and Irish Politics 1919-1939 by Dermot Keogh (Cambridge, UP, £27.50). IT IS an intriguing truth that Ireland, although massively Catholic between 1919......
Observations On The Quay Of Life
PICK OF THE PAPERBACKS In the life . . Among You Taking Notes: The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945 edited by Dorothy Sheridan (Oxford, £4.95). More from the......
Pitfalls Of Divine Intervention
NOVELS The Believer by Charles Gidley (Andre Deutsch, £9.95) The West Country background to this novel is refreshingly described and contrasts sharply with the convolutions of......
Climb Every Mountain, Fly Every Plane
The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt by Mary Russell (Collins, £12.95). THIS book, subtitled "Women Travellers and their World" deals with a great number of women travellers in......