Francis King
THE most satisfactory, if not the most exciting, novel of the year was Allan Massie's A Question of Loyalties (Hutch- inson, £12.95). This substantial and com- plex study of how......
John Mcewen
THE Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun, translated by Sian Evans (Camden Press, £15.95). The first unabridged version in English by that great rarity, an artist who had an......
John Grigg
VED Mehta's autobiographie fleuve, 'Con- tinents of Exile', will surely rank as a masterpiece of our age. It would be fasci- nating enough if the author were merely an Indian of......
Alice Thomas Ellis
THE book which has most impressed me this year is Anthony Storr's Churchill's Black Dog (Collins, £16), a collection of essays. He has a marvellous way of clari- fying seemingly......
Anthony Howard
QUITE unpredictably, the book I enjoyed most this year was Artemis Cooper's Cairo in the War 1939-1945 (Hamish Hamilton, £16.95). A splendid evocation of a city caught at an......
P. J. Kavanagh
NEARLY a hundred writers, over 20 years, in Letters to an Editor (Carcanet, £14.95) open their hearts to the founder of Carcanet Press, Michael Schmidt, proving how deep a vein......
Philip Glazebrook
ON account of my want of specialist knowledge of the period, I extracted from Richard 011ard's Clarendon and His Friends (Hamish Hamilton, £15) rather the satisfaction of a......
Gabriele Annan
THE answer to the question which book did you enjoy most will have to be Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains Of The Day (Fa- ber, £10.95) — helas. It is also the answer to the second......
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