Alec Guinness
The most compulsive reading for me in 1982 has been Indecent Exposure, — an alarming account of Wall Street plus Hollywood by New York journalist David McClintick. A weighty......
Patrick Marnham
I would recommend P. J. K - van Selected Poems (Chatto & p ray' Ending in air Windus):,ward Thomas. ing' would grace the pages of D ui As lark ascending Sing its song there, If......
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Patrick Skene Catlmg Fiction dominated my reading in Ot te rs three books by long-established 111001 seemed superior in their humanity, 'N it 0 , 5 technical virtuosity. Graham......
Jeffrey Bernard
I thought most critics were unfair to Frederic Raphael's Byron (Thames & Hud- son) and to him too. I found it so much more readable than other biographies of the great man of......
Jo Grimond
My first two choices are impeccable, if bor- ing — the choice, not the books — Graham Greene' s Monsignor Quixote (Bodley Head) and Kenneth Harris's Attlee (Weidenfeld &......
Alastair Forbes
What do they know of books who only Bookers know? Best by far of my 1982 bunch has been Byron, the 12 volumes of whose letters had a perfect postscript added to them by the......
4444,44144444-44-4444 Books Of The Year
We asked some of our contributors to name some of the books which they most enjoyed in 1982. J. Enoch Powell R. A. Butler's The Art of Memory (Hodder & Stoughton) because it......
Barbara Cartland
Here are the three books that I have en- joyed this year: The Emperor and the Ac- tress by Joan Haslip (Weidenfeld & Nicolson); Venice: The Most Triumphant City by George Bull......
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