Alasdair Palmer
For me, by far the best work of fiction pub- lished this year is a book of short stories: Bernard MacLaverty's Walking the Dog (Cape, £14.99). MacLaverty's pitilessly accurate......
Eric Christiansen
Quartet Books have done well with Volume I of A Writer's Diary by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; 805 pages at £25 gets you to 1876, and the wild man at his worst, raving about Slav......
Raymond Carr
My favourite book this year stands out from the load of ill-informed rot written about Flamenco music. It is the new, enlarged edition of Gerald Howson's The Flamencos of Cadiz......
Theodore Dalrymple
Myron Magnet's The Dream and the Night- mare: The Sixties Legacy to the Underclass (William Morrow & Co) seeks to explain both the existence and the conduct of the American......
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