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No Thrill In This Thriller
The Black Tower by P. D. James (Faber & Faber £2.75) While an intriguing plot is essential to a thriller writer," it should not be so labyrinthine or tortuous as to prevent the......
Writer Unshaken By Fashionable Tenets
by WILLIAM BURRIDGE, WF Engagement with God by Hans Urs von Balthasar (SPCK £3.25) A healthy diet of Hans Urs von Balthasar might prove to be just the thing to rehabilitate......
Three Generations Of Life
by JAMES HENRY BARNES Seven Days of Creation by Vladimir Maximov (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £3.50) Mr Maximov has been abused, slandered and exiled by a bureaucracy that is afraid......
This Book Was Written For An American Publisher And Is
none the worse for that. It incorporates certain sections, as the author tells us, of his "Christendom Divided," also written for an American publisher, and again none the worse......
St Thomas Aquinas On Faith
by Fr KENNETH GREEN Summa Theologiae, Vol 31: Faith translated by T. C. O'Brien (Blackfriars/Eyre & Spottiswoode £3.75) Central to the whole Summa of St Thomas Aquinas is found......
Collins Book Award
Collins the publishers announced this week that the closing date for applications for their 11,000 biennial Religious Book Award this year is July 1. The prize was inaugurated......
Failures And Follies Weighed
by Fr KENNETH GREEN Considerations by Hubert van Zeller (Sheed and Ward £2.50) This is the second edition of Dom Hubert van Zeller's short treatise on the spiritual life. His......
Vision Of Peace For Humble Villagers
From TOM NEARY at Knock On August 21, 1879, a glorious apparition of Heaven was witnessed by a group of humble villagers at Knock, Co Mayo. The apparition took place at a......