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|title=Like a Tramp, Like 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, 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>
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{{newreview
|title=An Atheist's History of Belief
|summary=This is a book that does what it sets out to do on the tin, and does so in almost glorious fashion. The back cover blurb promises hilarity and tittilation, but this will also fit on the shelf of any academic looking into the hornier side of the Fortean world, as well as anyone relishing the most singular collection of ghost legends that I can remember reading.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089902</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=A N Wilson, Nick Cave, Richard Holloway and Blake Morrison
|title=The Four Gospels with introductions
|rating=4
|genre=Spirituality and Religion
|summary=I wasn't entirely sure what to expect from this book. I only skimmed
through the description on Amazon, and understood that four modern
writers were introducing the four Gospels. What I hadn't really taken
in was that the introductions are brief - a few pages each - and that
the bulk of the book consists of the Authorised Version (known as the
King James Version in the USA) of the Gospels. The whole is published
in a fairly trendy looking paperback format, with the idea of
appealing to people who are not particularly religious, but who see
the Bible as valuable ancient literature.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847678351</amazonuk>
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