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On 'All Things Considered' this week (Sunday Dec 13th at 08.31, repeated on Wednesday Dec 16th at 18.32), Roy Jenkins' presents the annual 'All Things Considered' book review.

He meets a woman who is likely to be fast-tracked to sainthood; one of Britain's most controversial political clerics of the last century; and a family which knows the agonies of handling a latter-day prodigal son.

It is a fascinating line-up. In the interests of broadcasting transparency, we have to make it clear that none of these people is actually in the studio; but they're all very much present in the small pile of books which we are reviewing.

Joining Roy for the programme are Trystan Owain Hughes, Anglican chaplain at Cardiff University, Amanda Russell Jones who is a teacher and the Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths, Lord Griffiths of Pembrey and Burry Port, who is minister of Wesley's Chapel in the City of London.

The featured books are:

I Loved Jesus in the Night: Teresa of Calcutta, a secret revealed by Paul Murray.
Home by Marilynne Robinson.
The Last Wesleyan: A life of Donald Soper by Mark Peel.

And the guests' individual choices are:

A history of Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch.
The year of living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.