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• Book review: The Godless Boys by Naomi Wood

  Philip Womack is uninspired by a dystopian debut

• Book review: Blood Rites by Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jenny Bunker finds a re-issued book on the passions of war more pertinent than ever

• Editorial: Bibles and bones

  New Humanist editor Caspar Melville on an issue full of relics, witches, bibles and doubt

• Woman of substance

  Barbara Wootton attended the League of Nations, helped abolish the death penalty and became a magistrate before she was eligible to vote. Ann Oakley reviews a truly remarkable career

• The benefit of doubt

  We shouldn’t be afraid of being uncertain, argues Christopher Lane

• India would have been a better place without Sathya Sai Baba

  Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku on the final debunking of a guru

• My big fat humanist wedding

  Jake Wallis Simons offers a few tips to the royal couple

• Test-tube truths

  Should science guide our moral decisions? Kenan Malik puts Sam Harris's latest argument under the microscope

• The man who would be God: an interview with AC Grayling

  Anthony Grayling's latest book is his most daring. He has rewritten the Bible, leaving out God. Matthew Adams meets him

• Quiz: No eggs/pence spared

  Break a few eggs and price up an omelette with quizmaster Chris Maslanka