Following his useful and entertaining study of the exotic world of Anglican papalism, Michael Yelton has turned his attention to the modern re-founder of ‘England's Nazareth’, Fr Alfred Hope-Patten. His aim, to set out the facts about this enigmatic man in a straightforward way, referenced to the documents, putting a fuller picture with new information before the reader, is admirably fulfilled. He was given unrestricted access to the archives of the shrine at Walsingham and has also used material on Hope-Patten's family background and early life that has come to light in the last thirty years. He has therefore been able to amplify and to an extent correct the picture given by Canon Colin Stephenson, Hope-Patten's successor as administrator, in his amusing but rather anecdotal book Walsingham way. Many felt that the picture conveyed there was unfair, playfully accentuating Hope-Patten's oddities without giving credit for his pastoral sense. Yelton's view of Hope-Patten is neither hagiographical nor over-judgemental and is an attempt to set the record straight. Although this is not an ‘official’ biography the author acknowledges the ‘ready assistance and encouragement of the Guardians of the Shrine and its present administrator’. Fr Peter Cobb, Master of the Guardians 1996–2006, writes a foreword which commends the author's ‘sympathetic and perceptive appreciation of Hope-Patten’. With this the reviewer would agree. The book is nicely produced and has some splendidly atmospheric photographs. Slowly but surely the history of twentieth-century Anglo-Catholicism is being written and the movement put into a more rounded ecclesiastical context. In many respects the shrine itself is no longer the exotic or partisan place it was. How it has developed its mission to a broader constituency, and the support it now enjoys, would certainly have surprised its founder.