Rupert Christiansen
How embarrassing. The authors of the four books I have most relished this year — Nicola Shulman's elegant monograph A Rage for Rock Gardening (Short Books, £9.99), Virginia......
Anita Brookner
Nothing has pleased me much this year, although the desire to read a well-made book is if anything sharper than ever. Exception is made for The Little Friend by Donna Tartt......
Jonathan Sumption
This has been a year of completing some long-running multi-volume works, filling gaps that have stood for years like missing teeth on my shelves. The 12th volume of the Pilgrim......
Digby Anderson
This year I have experimented with buying books not directly for their author, topic or literary merit but by colour. Green books have turned out to be a great success. One......
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