William Boyd
An odd year for me of intermittent reading (a novel was being written) still managed to produce some rare treats. Jamie MacKendrick won the Forward Poetry Prize for his third......
Peter Levi
The best book all round and the most rereadable, the fireside friend, is James Lees-Milne's Ancient as the Hills, Diaries 1973-74, but William Dalrymple's travel book is the......
Christmas Books Ii
Books of the Year A further selection of the best and worst books of the year, chosen by some of our regular contributors John Fowles I thought one novel this year thoroughly......
Andrew Barrow
I have had the curious privilege this year of having two excellent books dedicated to me, and though it would be churlish not to mention Hugh Massingberd's Daily Telegraph Third......
Andro Linklater
Jim Crace's Quarantine (Viking, £16.99) was by a country mile the best fiction I read this year. Not since the death of Angela Carter has an English novelist succeeded in......
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