The New Threat from Islamic Militancy by Jason Burke (Bodley Head, £16.99)

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, with John and Elizabeth Sherill  (Hodder & Stoughton, £7.99) This is a famous book, written with two American journalists, first published in 1971, which has already had wide circulation. However, it has been reissued now because it contains a description of life in Ravensbrück, one of the holocaust…

Father Browne’s Dublin Photographs 1925-1950 edited by E. E. O’Donnell SJ (Messenger Publications, €14.99)

The Blue Guitar by John Banville (Penguin Viking, £12.99)

One Wide Expanse by Michael Longley  (UCD Press, €20 / £17)  These writings from the Ireland Chair of Poetry, which Ulster poet Michael Longley held between 2007 and 2010, consists of three essays. They are derived from the annual lectures which he was required to give, aside from his teaching, and deal with different aspects…

When Silence Speaks. The Spiritual Way of the Carthusian Order by Tim Peeters (Darton, Longman and Todd, £12.99)

Family and Civilization by Carle Zimmerman ed. and abridged by James Kurth (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, € 9.91).

The Books Editor How often do you over hear someone, in a book shop or over a stall at a parish fete, as often as not women, for women are greater readers than men, saying: “Oh, I have read that… I think”.  Back the book goes on the shelf or the jumble sale stall.  With…

Constantine The Emperor by David Potter (Oxford University Press, £14.99 pb)

Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter your Soul by Bill Hybels  (Hodder & Stoughton, £9.99) The author is an American minister, but what he recommends in this little book has universal application. Though couched in the language of modern self-help, at the heart of what he puts forward is a recognition of the importance of making…