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Book reviews – memoirs

Blood From A Stone - cover

This is the most intense collection of book reviews yet – personal memoirs, several of which explore some pretty deep stuff. See this guide to our 2022 book reviews.

Blood from a Stone
A memoir of how wine brought me back from the dead

Adam McHugh
Published by InterVarsity Press
ISBN 9781514000885
£20.52, $20

Tales of personal redemption can be a bit of a minefield – navel-gazing rarely makes for riveting prose. But when the very first paragraph of this book made me laugh, I wondered if there might be an outside chance that this was going to be...