Jennifer Paterson
My great favourite this year is unquestion- ably Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, her first novel (Black Swan, £5.99). It is a wonderful story, part magic, part......
Jane Gardam
The book I have most enjoyed this year (I have to say that I haven't read A Suitable Boy yet. It is so heavy to lift off the table) is In the Place of Fallen Leaves by Tim......
Caroline Moore
Two outstanding biographies: one fatly complete, stuffed with irresistible gossipy detail; the other elegantly concentrated on a single relationship; both superbly read- able.......
Alastair Forbes
The longest — and best value between hard covers — book that came my way in 1993 was without doubt Gore Vidal's collected book reviews (United States: Essays 1951-1992, Deutsch,......
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