Christmas Books Ii
A further selection of the best and most overrated books of the year, chosen by some of The Spectator's regular contributors P. J. Kavanagh Youn g Jason Goodwin, fascinated by......
Nigel Spivey
The lists from Yale University Press are Consistently interestin g . I do not know the chief commissionin g editor at Yale, but he or she would be a soul mate if I did. Two Yale......
Theodore Dalrymple
So much has been written about Dr John- son that one mi g ht have supposed there was little useful left to write, but Richard Holmes' Dr Johnson & Mr Savage (Hodder, £19.99) is......
John Osborne
Having cast it aside myself, I seem to have spent most of the year readin g autobiography. Streets ahead of the pack is Dirk Bogarde's A Short Walk from Harrods (Vikin g ,......
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