ROBIN LANE FOX’s Augustine: Conversions and Confessions, which was widely admired, and described by Carolyn Hammond as “enjoyable, thorough, stimulating, and moving”, when it was first published in hardback last year (Christmas Books, 27 November 2015), has now been issued in a paperback edition (Penguin, £12.99 (£11.70); 978-0-241-95075-3).