F Erdinand M Ount After Tracking Down The Holy Grail In A
bank vault in Aberystwyth, it is hard to know what to do for an encore. But Byron Rogers has found the perfect elusive quarry in the poet R. S. Thomas, the Welsh poet who wasn’t......
H Ugh M Assingberd A. N. Wilson’s Brilliant Betjeman...
a joy to read, and reread — the perfect match of author and subject. The mix of Anglicanism and doubt, crushes and guilt, Hymns Ancient & Modern and music-hall, fun and fear of......
A Llan M Assie Like Many I Was Amazed That Andrew O’hagan’s
novel Be Near Me (Faber, £16.99) didn’t even make the Booker short-list. I thought it brilliant: a social study which was also a moving personal drama. It was so good I wished I......
C Hristopher H Owse In Sir Ninian Comper (spire Books,...
Symondson gives us a most satisfying study of the architect, with lovely photographs carefully chosen to explain his work, and a useful gazetteer by Stephen Bucknall for......
Z Enga L Ongmore It Is A Tragedy That An Obscene Hoax
almost obscured the radiance of Betjeman (Hutchinson, £20). A. N. Wilson is one of my favourite biographers. After smearing the butter of benevolence on his subjects he delights......
F Rancis K Ing My Novel Of The Year Is Christopher Hope’s
My Mother’s Lover (Atlantic Books, £14.99). Best described as the literary equivalent of a comic-strip history of the colonialism in Africa, it is like one of the great rivers......
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