Courtney McGrailCatholic Primary Education in a Pluralist Environment by Anne Hession (Veritas, €14.99)
Category: Reviews
Recent books in brief
To Live in the Love of God: A Guide to Prayer by parishioners of Kirkinriola Parish, ed. Fr P. Delargy (Ballymena Parish Centre, £5.00) This book is an unusual effort by local people from an Ulster parish to answer the question: “Do you want to discover the truth and be a good person and make others…
Heroes of the frozen wastes
Shackleton’s Boat: The story of the James Caird by Harding McGregor Dunnett (Collins Press, €12.99)
The World of Books
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Living in the grip of terror by a killer on the run
Aubrey MaloneCaptive (12A)
The doubtful future of Islamic State
The New Threat from Islamic Militancy by Jason Burke (Bodley Head, £16.99)
Recent Books in Brief
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…
Meet the people of Dublin
Peter CostelloFather Browne’s Dublin Photographs 1925-1950 edited by E. E. O’Donnell SJ (Messenger Publications, €14.99)
New hope for John Banville?
The Blue Guitar by John Banville (Penguin Viking, £12.99)
Measuring the ‘Francis Effect’
With Pope Francis visiting the U.S., it's hardly surprising that he's come in for some unusual scrutiny. At polling aggregation website fivethirtyeight.com, for instance, space is given to a fascinating discussion on how it might be possible to measure the impact of Francis' papacy so far and what its legacy might be. A rise in…