25 NOVEMBER 1989, page 44

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......

Colin Thubron

MY travel book of the year is V. S. Naipaul's A Turn in the South (Viking, £14.95), which recounts a journey through the Deep South of the United States. In a region haunted by......

Anne Chisholm

TWO entirely different novels of contem- porary life gave me great pleasure: Martin Amis' London Fields (Cape, £12.95), probably the most unhelpfully over- promoted book this......

Frances Partridge

PROMINENT among the year's harvest, Richard Holmes's Coleridge (Hodder & Stoughton, £16.95) is absolutely up to his high standard and a book that is bound to last. The hero and......

Robert Blake

SIR Penderel Moon's The British Conquest and Dominion of India (Duckworth, £60) costs less than a decent dinner for two in London and is a marvellous work of scholarship by a......