A, L. Rowse
sev eral books have given me unalloyed ea k sure this year. Kenneth Harris's Attlee ei denfeld & Nicolson) is a first class biography and a contribution to t °rY. The true......
Terence De Vere White
My three for 1982 are the Beatrice Webb Diary (V ol 1) edited by Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie (Virago), The Newton Letter by John Banville (Seeker & Warburg) and H. H. Asquith:......
Francis King
I greatly enjoyed Elizabeth Jenkins's The Shadow and the Light: A Defence of Daniel Dunglas Home, the Medium (Hamish Hamilton) a work with all the excitement of a first-rate......
Peregrine Worsthorne
Most of the new books I read are those written by friends (others I wait until they appear as paperbacks to buy them) of which my favourites for 1982 are: An English Education:......
Eric Christiansen
The best read was Henry Fielding's A Voyage to Lisbon, last reprinted in 1976, appended to the Everyman Jonathan Wild. It tells the sad truth about voluntary travel; you cannot......
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p a ys read books on impulse, not in the i f Work or for knowledge. Because my R ev ii . l ses are regulated by the events of the lNs night, I find it is the second illitlg that......
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ueron Waugh .r eb .r eb joh ook I have enjoyed most this year was ()ill Mortimer's semi-autobiographical t a ti gine to the Wreckage (Weidenfeld). It sbseenllection of funny......
Miron Grindea
An unhoped-for Christmas offering — 500 pages of unknown Proustiana, recently ex- humed and deciphered with expertise and love by Professor Henri Bonnet. No longer will only......
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