17 DECEMBER 1983, Page 52

J. G. Links

The best new book 1 have read this year, (indeed, for several years) was Robertson Davies's The Deptford Trilogy (King Penguin) which will assuredly find its way to future lists of 'best books'. Penguin also published To See You Again, a new book of short stories by my favourite American author, Alice Adams — but perhaps 'publish' is hardly the word, since I do not know where it is to be had.

I don't finish bad books so I cannot say which was the worst but Stephen Vizinczey's An Innocent Millionaire (Hamish Hamilton) must have been the most overpraised by normally sensible reviewers.