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Digby Durrant

Fathers and Sons by Alexander Waugh (Headline, £8.99) about his extraordinary forebears starting with the Brute, his greatgreat-grandfather, who always carried a whip with an......

Marcus Berkmann

The book I have bought most copies of this year is Tom Hodgkinson's How To Be Free (Penguin paperback, £7.99). Hodgkinson is only in his late thirties, but already he is tired......

Martin Vander Weyer

Mavericks of the money world fascinate me, but the books I want to read by and about them are often left aside while I tackle duller tomes for duty. So here's a couple of years'......

Love From Snoop Or Poj

Alan Strachan THE LETTERS OF NOEL COWARD edited by Barry Day Bloomsbury, £25, pp. 800, ISBN 9780713685787 £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Noel Coward owned always that luck......