2 DECEMBER 1989, page 39

Hugo Vickers

TERENCE Stamp's latest memoirs, Dou- ble Feature (Bloomsbury, £14.95), is an evocative account of his tortured love affair with Jean Shrimpton. After a life of `scrumptious......

David Wright

ROBERT NYE's A Collection of Poems 1955-1988 (Hamish Hamilton, £12.95) is a surprise, yet not a surprise. Most perci- pient of our poetry reviewers, having hid his own poems......

Patrick Skene Catling

NOT yet having found a cure for agnostic- ism, as an ageing theological recidivist I have a growing appetite for books about What It All Means. During the past year, the best......

Richard Cobb

I ENORMOUSLY enjoyed Dominic Lieven's Russia's Rulers under the Old Regime (Yale, £27.50). The book repre- sents a highly successful combination of massive statistical tables......