Review of the hardback: 'To put it simply, if you want to know the state of 'Catholic' history today, this is where you start … Questier liberally sprinkles his text with humour, ensuring it never becomes too stifling, always the danger with a proverbial doorstep of a book … he has successfully produced a masterclass, so often neglected by academic historians, in straddling that great juncture between popular and academic history.' Catholic Times
Review of the hardback: '… you get the feeling that Questier is enjoying himself … the term 'must read' is over used but, it's the only possible description.' Catholic Times