Richard Ingrams
A. J. P. Taylor's Letters to Eva (Century, £20) gave a fascinating picture of the man as historian and his complicated private life. Not only a touching love story but also a social history, especially good on the gloomy mood of the 1970s.
The most entertaining book I read was Auberon Waugh's Will This Do? (Century, £15.99). It strikes me as an exceptionally honest autobiography as well as being extremely funny, William Trevor's Reading Turgenev (Viking, £9.99) was, as one might expect from this author, a small masterpiece which should have won the Booker Prize.
And welcome back to the admirable driffield and drif's guide to the Secondhand and Antiquarian Bookshops in Britain (Omnibus Workspace, 41 North Road, London N7, £9.95). At times, as in his splendid attack on Lord Rees Mogg's shop, driff recalls the invective of Cobbett.
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