24 NOVEMBER 1990, page 35

Taki

Like everyone who prefers books to the bovine box, my worst nightmare is to be caught inside an airplane without the writ- ten word. When it happened to me recent- ly, I asked......

Christopher Hawtree

Most of my reading this year has, of course, been in Victor Silvester's Modern Dancers' Handbook, but I have also en- joyed Justin Cartwright's Look At It This Way (Macmillan,......

Lindsay Anderson

One of the advantages of reviewing is that you get to read books which otherwise you might never buy and never digest. I greatly profited from An Empire of Their Own by Neal......

J. G. Links

The two books I remember most are in the sharpest contrast, the first being fiction written with such authority and skill that I found it hard to believe it was not history. In......

Patrick Leigh Fermor

I Have Sind: Charles Napier in India by Priscilla Napier (Michael Russell, £16.95). Ever since hearing the peccavi pun, most of us have felt drawn to this extraordinary man;......