Colin Welch
RARELY does a reviewer truly enjoy a book he or she is reviewing. He has too many notes to take — 20 pages on average I find. Then at the end he has to ask himself, on behalf of......
Bevis Hillier
A BOOK that will, I think, be recognised as a classic is. Little Legs: Muscleman of Soho by George Tremlett (Unwin Hyman, £12.95) — the 'as told to' recollections of Royston......
Michael Davie
ASTONISHINGLY, Sport and the British by Richard Holt (Clarendon Press, £19.50) is the first serious attempt to make sense of sport as part of the general social history of......
Denis Hills
NEITHER Krystyna Kawecka's Journey Without a Ticket (Fineprint, Nottingham, £6.90) nor Janek Leja's Janek (co-author A. Dowling, Ringpress, £14.95) would claim great literary......
Jennifer Paterson
THE Real Charlotte by Somerville and Ross was my all round favourite fiction. A most enchanting book and the obvious precursor of all the splendid, dotty Irish books about......
Piers Paul Read
PAUL Theroux's My Secret History (Ham- ish Hamilton, £11.95) seems to me to be one of the best books he has ever written. There is a wit, energy and precision to his style which......
Gavin Stamp
MOST architects are, perhaps fortunately, rather dull and conventional, and books about them tend to do them justice. A curious exception is John Wood, the man who created......
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