5th September 2025

The Mouse and His Child

By Russell Hoban…

by Jonathan Doering

3rd April 2015

Fields of Blood

by G Gordon Steel

G Gordon Steel is impressed by Karen Armstrong’s new book

3rd April 2015

Understanding Nonviolence

by Steve Whiting

Steve Whiting recommends an illuminating new book

27th March 2015

A Precariat Charter

by Tony Weekes

Tony Weekes is stimulated by some radical thinking

20th March 2015

A convenient truth

by Martin Wilkinson

Is there an alternative to a society that pursues happiness through materialism and consumption? Martin Wilkinson writes about a booklet that offers a bold vision for the future

13th February 2015

Spectacle, reality, resistance

by Peter Coltman

Peter Coltman reviews a book that challenges the culture of militarism

6th February 2015

The Christmas Truce

by Diana Lampen

Diana Lampen reviews the recent RSC production

23rd January 2015

Child of our time

by Malcolm Elliott

Malcolm Elliott reviews a powerful personal narrative

23rd January 2015

See you soon Caroline!

by David Birmingham

David Birmingham reviews a novel that reveals Quaker efforts to relieve unbelievable suffering in the 1939-1942 concentration camps in southern France

16th January 2015

Happier people healthier planet

by Richard Murphy

Richard Murphy welcomes a book that questions consumer values

2nd January 2015

The Turning Circle

by Jill Slee Blackadder

Jill Slee Blackadder is compelled by a novel with a strong Quaker thread

19th December 2014

Open for transformation

by Ian Kirk-Smith
12th December 2014

The Quaker way

by Alec Davison

Alec Davison is impressed by an account of Quaker faith and spirituality