Mice Thomson
Every political novel this year seemed to feature MPs embracing oranges and the like with unnatural vigour, including Ian McEwan's Amsterdam (Cape, £14.99) and John Mortimer's......
Raymond Carr
I hate visiting London and immersing myself in a society that reads and thinks about restaurants. Too much like the less attractive periods of the Roman empire. Stephen Inwood's......
Mary Killen
The latest Frances Partridge diaries, Life Regained 1970-72 (Weidenfeld, £18.99), delivered the anticipated goods. Unlike Woodrow Wyatt's, which pander to our baser instincts,......
Michael Tanner
My first choice must be James Baldwin's Collected Essays (The Library of America, $35), which not only includes such classics as 'Nobody Knows My Name' and 'The Fire Next Time',......
Michael Heath
Having a three-year-old girl to read to, I've come across many interesting books this year. Ant and Bee and the Rainbow by Angela Banner (Heinemann, £4.99) has the gut-wrenching......
Edward Heathcoat Amory
Normally, I am a devotee of escapist litera - ture, but this was my year for books about the real world. Julian Barnes's new novel, England, England (Cape, £15.99), dissected......
Andrew Barrow
How I would love to be recommending Mary Killen's wonderful first novel in this slot. Alas, this impatiently awaited book is still unwritten or stuck at Chapter Three. I can......
Matthew Parris
John O'Farrell's Things Can Only Get Better (Transworld, £9.99) is the funniest thing on politics I've read for ages. O'Farrell leaps from the weird and derelict wastelands of......
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