Category: Reviews

The World of Books

Books over the centuries have taken many forms. Indeed some kinds of books do not have to have any narrative to be most revealing. I came across one of these a little while ago in an Oxfam shop, a green cloth-bound item for which I see I paid 39 cents. The title page revealed that…

Voices of reason after Brexit vote

June 24, ‘the morning after the night before’ in terms of the Brexit vote across Britain, prompted and continues to prompt reams of newsprint and online commentary as to the true implications of the country’s historic move.  The plethora of competing reactions at this point is made possible of course by the very real uncertainty…

Recent books in brief

The Gaze of Love by Ruth Patterson (Veritas, €14.99)  Ruth Patterson is an Ulster Presbyterian minister long associated with the Restoration Ministries, who have worked in the North as well as elsewhere since the 1980s, in a non-denominational way to promote not just peace and reconciliation, but also healing.  But the key to this healing…