27 NOVEMBER 1993, page 37

Eric Christiansen

Of the many interesting books that were published this year, the one I would most like to have read is Sir Isaiah Berlin's The Magus of the North: T. G. Hamann and the Origins......

D.j. Taylor

I enjoyed Joan Brady's Theory of War (Deutsch, £14.99), a first novel drawing on the author's own family history. Brady's hero is her grandfather, sold into slavery as a......

John Whitworth

The most interesting book I have read this year is Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by An drew Motion (Faber, £20). How surpris- ing Larkin's life turned out to be. Some- times I......

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