John Henry Newman: A very brief history by Eamon Duffy ( published by SPCK 2019: £12.99). This erudite study of perhaps the most influential British theologian of the nineteenth century is a tale of two halves: of his Anglican persuasion from his birth in 1801 and then his reception into the Catholic Church in 1845 followed by his ministry as a Catholic priest until his death in 1890 as a Cardinal of the Church to which he converted.