Edward Norman
The best book was Hensley Henson by Owen Chadwick (OUP). The worst was Walking on the Water: Women talk about Spirituality by Jo Garcia and Sara Maitland (a Virago Paperback......
Richard Cobb
The books that I have most enjoyed reading this year are From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vik ram Seth (Chatto), Will and Circumstance: Montes- quieu,......
Jo Grimond
The two best books of the year were The Watcher by Charles Maclean (Weidenfeld) and F. E. Smith: First Earl of Birkenhead by John Campbell (Cape). I never get far in what I......
Best And Worst Books Of The Year
A selection of the best and worst books of the year chosen by some of the Spectator's regular reviewers. Anthony Blond The best book was The Oxford English Dic- tionary: Volume......
Candida Lycett Green
The best were The Kingdom by the Sea by Paul Theroux (Hamish Hamilton), Re- quired Writing by Philip Larkin (Faber) and The Innocent Millionaire by Stephen Vizinczey (Hamish......
Roy Fuller
The best book, arguably improved in its revised, abridged form was To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell (Penguin). Out of a defective memory, the worst by a......
Harriet Waugh
The best books were Coup de Grace by Marguerite Yourcenar (Aidan Ellis) and Cold Heaven by Brian Moore (Cape). The worst was The Swan Villa, oy Martin Walser (Seeker & Warburg).......
George Gale
The best books I have read have been Richard Cobb's French and Germans, Ger- mans and French (University Press of New England). Cobb prefers the French to the Germans and he is......
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......
Harold Acton
The best was Mary Berenson: A Self Portrait from her Letters and Diaries by Barbara Strachey and Jayne Samuels (Gollancz), The Italian World edited by John Julius Norwich......
Max Hastings
The best books were The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Seeker & Warburg) and Carlo d'Este's Decision in Normandy. (Collins), Not the worst, but the most con- temptible, was......
J. Enoch Powell
The best book was Lesley Brooke and Johnny Crow by Henry Brooke (Frederick Warne). The worst was The Last Lion by William Manchester (Michael Joseph).......
Mark Amory
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor (The Bodley Head) is his best novel yet. Kate's House by Harriet Waugh (Weidenfeld and Nicolson) is hers. I may have read more inept books but......
John Jolliffe
For me the most impressive new book has been Eleni by Nicholas Gage (Collins). It celebrates the triumph of self-sacrifice over self-seeking, of love over hatred, and of the......
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