What books made the reader a better person when he or she turned the final page?

The 19th century witnessed an intriguing range of tsars, from reformist to reactionary or a combination of both.

Maura Clarke might appear to have been a loser in the fight for human dignity. Not so.

A hospice chaplain learns that people carry burdensome secrets and regrets, and the prospect of dying makes them want to unload them.

'Imagination is a spiritual reality that can draw us toward the good, the true and the beautiful.'

God knows we forget, but we rarely hear a good word about it.