C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity: A Biography by George M. Marsden (Princeton University Press, £16.95)
The lively life of an influential and marvellous book
Peter Costello
A young person’s guide to nature
Naturama: Open Your Eyes to the Wonders of Irish Nature by Michael Fewer, with illustrations by Melissa Doran (Gill Books, €22.99)
Meeting ourselves as we really are
The Republic photographed by Seamus Murphy (Allen Lane, €32.00)
Europe and the centenaries of the Great Tragedies of 1916
With our recent concentration on the local events in Ireland in 1916 most Irish people have overlooked the centenary of some of the events in the Great War itself. The recent commemorations of both the Battle of Jutland and the Battle of Verdun, both to be counted with the first day of the Somme (a…
Language and its effect on meaning and belief
Passwords to Paradise: How Languages Have Re-invented World Religions by Nicholas Ostler (Bloomsbury, £20.00)
Deceptive adaptions are such a turn-off
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Good news for all
Where the Heart Is: How the Gospel Transforms Our Lives by Bishop Donal Murray (Veritas, €12.99)
Comparing Shakespeare, Cervantes & Rabelais
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The last days of mankind?
Revelation Road: One Man’s Journey to the Heart of the Apocalypse and Back Again by Nick Page (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99)
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This week the civilised world has been marking the fourth centenary of the death of William Shakespeare, poet, playwright and businessman. Universally admired he may be, but his works have suffered many vicissitudes over the years. The man himself began as a poet in a classical sense. The dramas came perhaps as a way of…