10 DECEMBER 1994, page 41

A Postscript To 'books Of The Year'

A fter Anthony Beevor's Crete and Artemis Cooper's Cairo, the excellence of their joint Paris After the Liberation (Hamish Hamilton, £20) should have come as no surprise. De......

Pleasures Of The Fleeting Year

William Deedes THE SPECTATOR ANNUAL edited by Dominic Lawson John Murray, £19.99, pp. 246 I approach all anthologies doubtfully. They put me in mind of small country houses......

Any Second You May Suddenly Disappear

Robert Cooper SECRETS OF THE STREET by Lynne Perrie Blake Publishing, £14.99, pp. 297 S oap addicts are a loyal breed. I know because I am one — but only as far as Coronation......