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[[Category:Spirituality and Religion|*]]__NOTOC__ __NOTOC__ <!--Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rowan WilliamsFrederic Seager|title=The Edge of Words: God and the Habits of Language|rating=4|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=This, Rowan Williams' first book since standing down as Archbishop of CanterburyJesus, is based on a series of lectures that he delivered as Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh in 2013. Gifford Lectures are famous for their examination of developments in natural theology; a branch of theology that argues the existence of God based on reason Man and nature. In these lectures Rowan sort to examine how we as human beings develop use and process language, particularly when it comes to the use of language around faith and our perception and understanding of God.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472910435</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Like a Tramp, Like Myth: A Pilgrim: On Foot, Across Europe to Rome|author=Harry Bucknall|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=What links London and Rome? Their capital city status for one, Jewish Reading of course. One has a St Paul's cathedral, the other a St Peter's (although pedants will say not). They both have a football team who wear red and white. Oh, and the ancient pilgrim route called the Via Francigena – although the pedant will again say that that strictly starts at that other pilgrimage site, Canterbury. As for Harry Bucknall, the Via starts at St Paul's and should end at St Peter's. Whether or not Harry himself will connect the two cities – and entirely on foot – is the subject of this travel book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408187248</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=An Atheist's History of Belief|author=Matthew KnealeNew Testament

|genre=Politics Spirituality and SocietyReligion|summary=I’ve been an atheist since I was old enough to take brought up in a view family where religion played little or no part. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side and Welsh Methodist on the subjectother, nobody really discussed religion and the adults around me ranged from lapsed to agnostic to atheist. (Many atheists would argue that we’re all atheists at birthOther than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity play, but that’s not a subject for a book review). I didn't think too much about faith or what people did have to take Religious Studies at school but have entirely forgotten almost everything I learned!or didn't believe.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099584425</amazonuk>B092BWWG9Y

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Reverend Adam SmallbonePeter Owen Jones|title=The Rev DiariesConversations with Nature|rating=4.5|genre=HumourSpirituality and Religion|summary=Adam Smallbone wasn’t always a vicarOne of the comments made when I was offered this beautiful book for review was that it's not very long. He used to work for Having read the Bristol Housing Departmentbook twice over, enabling his father-in-law to tell everyone he worked I'in property'. From there, his initial calling was m brought back inescapably to a rural church in Suffolk which did nothing to prepare him for thisthe Spanish proverb that Life may be short, his current London inner city parishbut it is broad. Indeed, he In this case I's not prepared for Adoha (m brought to the Nigerian parishioner with 19 grandchildren and 'idea that the bottom length of God') or Colin, life is not the point; the homeless alcoholic who has adopted Adam and his wife Alex (Mrs Vicarage to Colin)point is its depth. But then Alex also has a lot to get used to; after all, she didn't actually marry a vicarPeter Owen Jones dives deep.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718178394</amazonuk>1912992418

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in AmericaRichard Brook|authortitle=Ranya Tabari IdlibyUnderstanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life

|genre=Spirituality and ReligionLifestyle|summary=I can’t imagine it’s am a firm believer that easy to be a Muslim in most areas sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the USAlatter. Even Not so very long ago, if you don’t ‘look like’ I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a Muslimfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, even if you don’t drop so there is a predisposition towards expecting to your knees in like the direction of Mecca 5 times a daybook, even if you give your kids arguably Jewish names. And being openly Muslim cannot have got any easier in the wake of 9/11. This it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book examines one Muslim-American family’s life and the constant challenges they face from friendsI needed to read, neighbours and teachersright now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230341845</amazonuk>1800461682

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Hill_Atlas|title=The Atheist's PrayerAtlas of Monsters|author=Amy R BiddleStuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence|rating=3.54|genre=General Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I don’t shy away from a book with a little edgeThere are monsters and mysterious characters, such as trolls, leprechauns, in fact [[:Category:Chuck Palahniuk|Chuck Palahniuk]] is one goblins and minotaurs. They're the stuff of my favourite authors far too many stories to remain mysterious, and his books can be so sharp you can shave with every schoolchild should know all about them. On There are monsters and mysterious characters, such as Gog and Magog, Scylla and Charybdis, and the surface ''The Atheist’s Prayer'' would seem bunyip. They are what you find if you take an interest in this kind of thing to be courting controversythe next level; why else even if you cannot place them all on a map you should have come across them. But there are monsters and mysterious characters, such a provocative title? Butas the dobhar-chu, is it really that shocking? Nope. This is a story about how people deal with the modern world llambigyn y dwr, and what happens when dangerous ideals infect the girtablili. To gain any knowledge of them you really need a vulnerable groupbook that knows its stuff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780995822</amazonuk>A book like this one…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1999731506|title=Mindfulness and the Natural WorldSpiritual Atheist|author=Claire ThompsonNick Seneca Jankel|rating=32|genre=Spirituality and ReligionLifestyle|summary=''Spiritual Atheist'' is a new 'bible' for the spiritual not the religious, according to the tagline. This is a taboo smashing book appealed to me for a couple which solves the problem of reasons; I have recently completed a workshop on mindfulness modernity and have been attempting explains how to put some of the ideas into practice throughout my daily life, be a 'spiritual technologist' who can live and I love nature and spending time outdoors cyclingfreely in 'spiritual fullness' without relying on a belief in god. ThereforeTouching on everything from 'brain science' to AI, this seemed the perfect choice Jankel offers a 'path to learn more about combining the two and exploring fresh perspectives in my everyday life. I began reading this hardcover with high expectations, particularly as the book was beautifully laid out with unique artwork and philosophical quotes included. Howevermeaning', although there were some insightful ideas and inspiring thoughts presented amongst the five chapters, overall I was a little disappointed in what the book had allowing us to offermove beyond consumerism towards an ethical life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401024</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789015200|title=Rogerson's Book of Numbers: The culture of numbers from 1001 Nights to the Seven Wonders of the WorldBe Your Higher Self|author=Barnaby RogersonSamesh Ramjattan

|summary=One book, split into two testaments, regarding a holy trinity, the principal part known from four writers, in a world abutting another where five pillars There are important, up against a world where a sixlot of self-pointed star holds so many meanings… Ithelp books about: it's obvious from just a quick dash through one of the most schoolboy-friendly parts thriving sections of religion that numbers are importantthe average bookshop, but it's not always easy to find the book you need. This Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', a book, although counting down from multitudes which allows us all to that late-comer zeromake sense of our place in the world, brings them all to as most of us, with brief notes about why they all hold relevance where whichever country, civilisation or religion is concernedonly glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. In the endEven with hard work and dedication, I'm sure obstacles present themselves and it's a lot more user-friendly, interesting, and will difficult to understand why or how they can be a lot more popular, than the original Book of Numbersovercome.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250995</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Inventing the Enemy: Essays on Everything|author=Umberto Eco|rating=4|genre=History|summary=Imagine Ramjattan offers us a sumptuous Italian feast in the sunlit-bathed ancient countryside near Milan. Next guide to you a gentleman talks and eats with furious energy. He tells of Dante, Cicero, and St Augustine and quotes a multitude of obscure troubadours from the Middle Ages. He repeats himself, gestures flamboyantlyspirit world, nudges you sharply in the ribschakras, belches karma and even breaks wind. His conversation contains nuggets of reincarnation as well as information but in about the flow age of his discourse there is a fondness for iteration and reiteration. He throws bones over his shoulder Aquarius and when he reaches the cheese course - definitely too much information on the mouldy bacteria! When you finally get up things the elderly gentleman has said prompt your imaginationego. You are better informed, intrigued and prodded to examine his discourse again and again, even if only to challenge what you have heard. Such are the effects of reading Eco’s essays in It''Inventing the Enemy''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553945</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Sisters of the East End|author=Helen Batten|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Katie Crisp had never intended to become s a nun. Raised by nonslim book - just 128 pages -religious parents, her family frowned upon organised religion and when Katie started secretly going to church, they strongly disapproved. When Katie ran to the aid of a stroke victim, she had a vision that changed her life. She saw herself dressed as a nun so can it provide us with a large silver cross hanging from her neck. She decided to follow her calling and join the community of St John the Divine, a group of Anglican nuns dedicated to nursing and midwifery. She thus shed her old identity and became known as Sister Catherine Mary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091951771</amazonuk>answers we seek?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mahnke_Lore|title=Anti-JudaismThe World of Lore, Volume 1: A History of a Way of ThinkingMonstrous Creatures|author=David NirenbergAaron Mahnke

|genre=HistorySpirituality and Religion|summary=Initially the choice of title seemed an odd one Every country, every town, every village has a folktale – a story passed down through generations that often focuses on account of the more widely used term, anti-Semitismdark and unexplained. The distinction is quickly made though, that unlike No matter how the lattermodern world moves on, anti-Judaism does not need real Jews to flourish, but is fuelled by an idea alone. In fact this is there's a still a core tenet part of Nirenberg’s thesis. Throughout history the idea of ‘Judaism’ everyone that is raised as an existential spectre in societies where there may be no Jewish members at allvulnerable to a good tale. This is a chilling realityFrom ghosts to werewolves, by way of wendigos and Nirenberg charts elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the course of how this came to be. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851131</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carolyn Mathews|title=Transforming Pandora|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=When we first meet Pandora Armstrong in reader legends from all over the spring of 2003 she's grieving for her husbandworld, Mike, who had died just a few weeks before. It hadn't been his first heart attack and he had reduced his workload but this attack was fatal. He was only in his fifties and Pandora feels that he'd been snatched away from her as whilst examining how they'd only been married for a few years. When a friend suggests that she goes with her to an Evening ve become part of Clairvoyance she runs out our collective imaginations, still striking fear into the hearts of excuses to refuse and although she's not exactly ''convinced'' by what she hears there's a lingering doubt. A spirit voice mentioned her children and Pandora was adamant that she didn't have any children - it's actually quite a sore point - but that wasn't true many of Mikeus today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780997450</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Wm Paul YoungSaxena_Jaya|title=Cross RoadsBasic Witches|author=J Saxena and J Zimmerman

|summary=WmBefore I started this book I was expecting to be thrown into the world of magic and would know how to levitate by the end of the first chapter. Paul Young's debut novel ''The Shack'' Unsurprisingly, I was a revelation in many wayswrong. Whilst many disagreed with his theologyHowever, it what I was refreshing to see such an overtly faith based met by was a book on that explores the bestseller lists. Personallyorigins of witchcraft, I found it teaches you how to dress and act like a very moving story witch and whilst I thought it helpful on some points, it tended contains spells ranging from accepting compliments to skim over others. Now we get to see if Young can repeat his success with his new novel, ''Cross Roads''conjuring up a relaxing Netflix binge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444745972</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danaan ElderhillWright_Universe|title=The Magic Book of CookeryUniverse and Life but Not Everything|author=Anthony Christian Wright

|summary=Back in the seventeenth century in what was then the Kingdom of Bohemia there was I often wonder - usually after a coven moment of witches. As was common shaking my fist at that time witches the news on TV - what my manifesto for life and society would look like were hunted and they had I to hide their beliefswrite it down. The Friends I have all sorts of Euphrosynethoughts about these things, as they called themselves, turned to this deity (she's one of from the three graces and there to remind us to have fun) in their time metaphysics of need who we are and developed rituals which could be assimilated into social gatheringswhere we come from, allowing them right down to hide in plain sightdetailed critiques of quite insignificant government policies. Their book I've never done such an exercise - The Magic Book of Cookery - vanished along with mostly because I lack the time, the coven when they were discovered but Danaan Elderhill wants us to benefit from its ancient wisdom - patience and its funthe diligence required. It seems like an enormous task.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0092BX6O0</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charity Seraphina Fields1850788332|title=I am not a BuddhistRosie: Note to Self |author=Claire Connor and G P Taylor

|genre=Spirituality and ReligionGeneral Fiction|summary=''I am not In the first of a five book deal Claire Connor, writing in partnership with GP Taylor, brings us a Buddhist'' is an individual through Buddhism and its principles seen from modern romance based loosely on the point story of view of one on Ruth from the pathBible. Charity Seraphina Fields attempts - through her own musings on this ancient Eastern philosophy This is total chick- lit, and from the first few pages I thought it was just going to explain why Buddhism is better suited to be a very light, funny romance story. However, the rich West than story quickly takes a depressing turn and the poorer East. For Fields, rest of the question isn't ''Why am I suffering without all those things I want?''book is as much an exploration of grief as it is a romance novel. The right question is actually ''Why am I still suffering even though I have everything I want?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1475085664</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eamon DuffySantiago_Returning|title=Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition|rating=4|genre=History|summary=In the introduction to this book Eamon Duffy, Professor of the History of Christianity at Cambridge History, points out that all too often historians have written about the English Reformation from strongly polarised views. Taking two extreme examples, he cites one which states that the people of England, formerly happy medieval Catholics, were forced by King Henry to abandon their religion, and England was never merry again, alongside another which speaks of the English being oppressed by corrupt churchmen until King Henry gave them the Protestant nation for which they longed. On the following page, he suggests that it had long been an axiom of historical writing that the success of the Reformation in England was an inevitable consequence of the dysfunction and unpopularity of late medieval Catholicism. Such remarks were evidently made by writers with an axe to grind. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441181172</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewReturning Home|author=Timothy Radcliffe|title=Take the PlungeStephan Santiago|rating=43.5

|summary=There appears [[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has experienced life in a way that's led him to be more Christian literature around than ever before at the moment. I donbelieve we't know whether this is re all on a response to Richard Dawkins' ''The God Delusion'', which has meant soul journey back home – that Christian writers and publishers have increased their outputs, or because I'm noticing it moreplace we inhabited before we were born. Timothy Radcliffe's ''Take the Plunge'' This book is taking a more or less opposite view guide as to that of Dawkinshow we can optimise this journey for ourselves, exploring the importance of baptism in everyday life and arguing that there is no aspect of life that cannot be touched if you are baptised those around us and therefore living with faithour children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1441118489</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Youssef Ziedan and Jonathan Wright (translator)Wilbourne_Shepherd|title=AzazeelShepherd of Another Flock|author=David Wilbourne

|genre=Historical FictionSpirituality and Religion|summary=An archaeologist in [[:Category:David Wilbourne|David Wilbourne's]] CV looks like a time and place close to that career path for people who are hard-of modern troubled Syria discovers thirty scrolls-humoured. These Banker, teacher of Ancient Greek, vicar, bishop…none of these are the writings of jobs normally connected in our minds with a Coptic Christian monk born into Roman dominated Egypt jovial twinkle. Yet in AD391David's case, we'd be totally wrong to assume. A door thus opens into an ancient world and The current Bishop of Llandaff takes us by the emerging vista stretches hand to show us episodes from the present into the distant past, his life as if eliciting an omnipresent dimension to reality. The fluent evocative prose flows like a meandering river or a ribbon connecting continuously vicar of the present moment character-packed Yorkshire parish of Helmsley proving that tears of sorrow are equally shared with the ancient world. A panorama emerges dominated by Rome and Constantinople and extends to Alexandria, Jerusalem and Antiochtears of laughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848874278</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger ScrutonPigliucci_How|title=The Face of God: The Gifford LecturesHow to be a Stoic|author=Massimo Pigliucci

|summary=Atheist culture has recently become more mainstream, thanks in part ''Stoicism is about developing the tools to deal as effectively as humanly possible with the success of Richard Dawkins' bookensuing conflicts, does not demand perfection, and does not provide specific answers.''The God Delusion''. HoweverFor many readers, religion does still have a part living in an age of rules to play, with Prince Charles urging make us happy and the United Kingdom inevitable failure to be more tolerant towards faiths other than the Church of England he was raised as part of and even the Prime Minister talking about faith issuesstick to them, this is an intensely reassuring sentence. Since 1888Pigliucci certainly makes Stoicism an appealing philosophy, the Gifford Lectures one which can sit alongside religious faith but doesn't have been given to , one which doesn'promote t demand Aristotelian heights of intelligence, beauty or riches in order to truly succeed in life, and diffuse...the knowledge of Godone which recognises life's messy difficulties.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847065244</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen FrenchPearce_Biblical|title=The Hidden Geometry of LifeA Biblical Theology Behind Music, Praise, and Worship|author=Dr Mark Pearce|rating=2.54

|summary=''The Hidden Geometry of Life'' aims to explore the esoteric and often mystical meanings contained Music used in ''shapes religions and patterns [that] represent ideas and distil worship itself goes back to the essence beginning of reality''humankind. This mystical angle was a little bit of a unpleasant surprise for In this reader. I should have had book musician and theological academic [[:Category:Dr Mark Pearce|Dr Mark Pearce]] explores its Biblical history in a better look at Karen French's Amazon pages Christian context as well as providing tips and previous work, but I was attracted by an exciting-sounding title, attractive cover and and references to author's artsuggestions for those involved in worship in the present day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780281080</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Grace McCleenIles_Thoughts|title=The Land Thoughts and Inner Journey of DecorationDr. John Dee|author=Clair Iles|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionSpirituality and Religion|summary=Grace McCleen's debut novel[[:Category:Clair Iles|Clair Iles]] is, ''The Land of Decoration'' paints an originalin her own words, unsettling, sometimes dark and generally rather wonderful picture. Narrated by ten year old Judith, raised by her father a normal person who is was educated at a fundamental religious follower of the end of the world is nigh variety, it looks at bullying, both at normal comprehensive school and in more general society. However, faith and the possible rejection thereof and the strength of childhood imagination.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070118681X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Roman Krznaric|title=The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to Live|rating=5|genre=History|summary=she'How should we live?' asks author Roman Krznarics a normal person who hears dead people. To answer this ancient questionYes, he looks Clair is a spiritualist with ability to historyhear from those who have passed on. 'I believe that the future of the art of living can be found by gazing into In the past', he saysthey had generally been relatives or everyday folk. Creating a book which is as full of curiosities as a Renaissance 'Wunderkammer', he has a stab at the big questions: loveImagine, beliefthen, money, family, deathher surprise when she felt she was hearing from Elizabethan court polymath John Dee. The result is Over a pot-pourri period of delights which left time she could feel his dictated thoughts and ideas in her mind and this particular reader stimulated and invigoratedbook of the channelled words is the result.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683939</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David MaloufWoodcock_Becoming|title=The Happy LifeBecoming Reverend: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=There's something quite uplifting about the physical brevity of David Malouf's 'The Happy Life' which is subtitled 'The Search for Contentment in the Modern World'. It suggests that it is easy to find, when of course, the whole point of the book is that despite, or perhaps because of, scientific and technological advances that have taken away many of the causes of true unhappiness in the world, it remains elusive for most. Who can say that they are truly happy? The book runs to less than 100 pages if you take out the Notes section, and the typeface is large. It is, by any reckoning a slim offering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701187115</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christina Goodings and Annabel Hudson|title=My Look and Point Bible|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This version of the bible for toddlers has been cleverly retold to engage little ones, with lots of illustrations, pictures to point at and words to learn. It includes stories from both the old and new testaments, from the creation and Noah through to the birth of Jesus as well as some of his parables and the crucifixion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745962068</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewA diary|author=Alexandre Christoyannopoulos|title=Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the GospelMatt Woodcock

|summary=Whilst I've long been [[:Category:Matt Woodcock|Matt Woodcock]] is enjoying life: successful journalist, happily married and a Christian, I've never considered myself an anarchistnew dream home bought and heavily mortgaged. My thinking The only cloud on the horizon is that anarchy is something youtheir struggle to have children but they have faith in the IVF treatment as it're more likely s early days yet. Then comes the funny turn Matt has on the way to see on a story one day. This takes him by surprise but the news than on 'Songs of Praise'resulting clergy collar comes as a total shock. However, there is He's a school normal bloke who always thought of thought that suggests that Jesushimself as more pint than piety believing in a God who' teachings were so counter-cultural and so against Roman law that it constitutes anarchisms happy for him to remain in the pews.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845402472</amazonuk> Errrrm… whoops!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen ArmstrongChaplin_Stone|title=In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of GenesisThe Stone Cradle|author=Patrice Chaplin|rating=45

|summary=Armstrong's background (there's The Stone Cradle'' is a page right at remarkable book from the beginning) author Patrice Chaplin. It is certainly diverse a biography, the third in a series set in the Catalonian city of Girona. It is also an enduring love story and a journey into mystery and interesting so I was looking forward to reading what she had to sayspirituality. And thankfullyThe city has drawn artists, I didn't have to rummage around looking writers and philosophers for my own copy centuries. Rich in Kabbalistic thought through Azriel, the most famous student of Isaac the bible (I've now located Blind, it has always been a home for mysticism and secrets. The magnetism and resonance of the city has had a hold on Patrice Chaplin since she first visited it) as Armstrong obligingly provides Genesis (in beautiful, old-fashioned typeface) herethe fifties. So roughly two thirds is given over to The series of books detail her investigative prose journey and her encounters with the remaining third is esoteric society that have protected its mysteries since ancient times. 'The Stone Cradle' also gives a new life and direction to the actual book mysteries of GenesisRennes le Chateau, for handy referencethe small French village, made famous by the Da Vinci Code and the Holy Blood and The Holy Grail. Linking the two places through sacred geometry to the mountain of Canigou.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555476</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yangzom Brauen and Katy DarbyshireVonnegut_Sun|title=Across Many Mountains: Three Daughters of Tibet|rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=Fleeing your home can never be easy but when you are six, your only shoes are roughly hand-sewn and stuffed with hay, and your route is over the world's highest mountain range then it must be particularly challenging. This was the journey that Yangzom Brauen's mother took with her parents when they fled Tibet after the Chinese invasion of 1959. They were leaving behind all that they knew and travelling to India in the hope that they could find sanctuary in the country where the Dalai Lama was in exile. 'Across Many Mountains' is their story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655344X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSun Moon Star|author=David Ovason|title=Shakespeare's Secret Booke: Deciphering Magical Kurt Vonnegut and Rosicrucian CodesIvan Chermayeff|rating=34.5

|summary=One group In his own delightfully imaginative way, Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of people that were convinced the Chilean miners, Los 33, would be relieved birth of Christ in this unique and long out of their ordeal, were numerologistsprint children's book. For hundreds Told from the perspective of years, it seems, they have held the number thirty-three new born infant in good stead. It represents a lot of expression of the ego, or the soul, or the transformation his first hours of the spirit from one world to another. It doesn't boil down to just the 33 years Christ was supposed to have held His human incarnationbirth, but refers this charming little story feels different to many ethereal, magical, alchemical transformations from state to state. And who can deny the Chilean mine was 2010other children's most vivid embodiment of hell - and that Christmas books whilst at the 33 were reborn in coming same time goes back to life on earth?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570260</amazonuk>the basics in exploring the true nature of Christmas.

{{newreview|author=Robert Leon Davis|title=Running Scared: For 22 Years He Was a Fugitive - The Corrupt Cop Busted by God|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Robert Davis was the eldest of nine children all living with their grandmother in New Orleans – on welfare. His grandmother was a good, honest woman and Davis loved and respected her, but money was so tight that he resorted Move to thieving to bring some extra food in for the family. He knew that she would be deeply upset about it, but hunger is hunger. In your heart you can't blame him and it seems that all is coming good when Davis becomes a respected police officer in the mid nineteen-seventies. He's living with a good, decent woman and looks set to have a good career. Great, you think, sometimes life ''is'' fair and it works out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1854249932</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carol Richards|title=Columbanus: Poet, Preacher, Statesman, Saint|rating=4|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=Richards is at pains to point out straight away that the reader mustn't confuse Columbanus with Columba of Iona. She informs us that the latter did not travel extensively but the former, the subject of her book, did travel throughout parts of Europe. She gives her subject a terrific introduction on the cover, describing him as 'poet, preacher, statesman, saint.' And then goes into much more detail about these areas of his life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845401905</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=G Willow Wilson|title=The Butterfly Mosque: A Young Woman's Journey to Love and Islam|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=This memoir is told in the first person so straight away there is a connection with the reader. The story starts - not in Egypt - but in the USA. Willow (lovely name) says she's ''in the market for a philosophy.'' And in this search she is extremely thorough. She looks at mainstream religions - Christianity, Buddhism to name but two and puts them under the microscope, so to speak. She dismisses all of them before settling on Islam. It appears to offer what she is after, what she is looking for, that enigmatic thing. But also, there's some little twist which helps make her mind up. But not before she digs deep and seeks answers to complex and awkward questions. She reads and researches Islam and finds out surprising facts, which she shares with the reader. Willow is well-read and well-educated. She seems set for a good career of her choice on American soil. Why not settle for that? But she's set on travel to the Middle East come what may.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843548283</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Sport Reviews]]