A Turkish Delight
Book review of Turkey: A Short History by Norman Stone
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Not All Roads Lead to Rome
Book review of The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour
Promise and Redemption
Book review of Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Philosophy as Confession
Book review of Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory by Stanley Cavell
Family Values
Book review of Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People by Philip Ball
The Old Lady Lifts Her Skirts
Book review of The Bank of England: 1950s to 1979 by Forrest Capie
The Reign of Spain
Book Review: The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas
Rehab for a President
Book Review: Decision Points by George W. Bush
Rhyming Triplets
Book Reviews: New & Collected Poems, by U. A. Fanthorpe; How Snow Falls, by Craig Raine; and Late Poems, by Anthony Thwaite
St Gilbert of Fleet Street
Book Review: The Wit and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton selected by Bevis Hillier
The Test of Character
Book Reviews: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen; and Sunset Park by Paul Auster
High Priest of Poetry
Taller When Prone by Les Murray