25 NOVEMBER 2000, page 51

Jonathan Cecil

A. N. Wilson's God's Funeral, now out in paperback (Abacus, £9.99) is a masterly book. Mr Wilson's unique combination of erudition and sly humour and his empathy with the......

Taki

The novel having died when Salman Rushdie began to write, I have resorted to rereading classics, such as The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal's masterpiece about the treacherous......

Stuart Reid

The book that gave me most satisfaction was Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion by Robert Coles (Perseus Books, $16.50), which I found in the gift shop of an old church in Lower......

Paul Johnson

Anyone looking for a sumptuous Christmas present for a loyal subject and ardent royal- ist should examine The Daily Life of the Queen: An Artist's Diary by Michael and Vivien......