Francis King
My most impressive book of the year is Before Night Falls (Viking, £16), the posthumously published autobiography of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas. Arenas suffered......
Alan Judd
Having contributed a chapter on Lamb House to Writers and their Houses, I returned this year to Henry James: The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl. The exhilaration of......
Peter Levi
James Lees-Milne has produced a diary (A Mingled Measure, John Murray, £19.99) so sparkling and readable, so surprising and so wise and often so funny it has cheered me all day......
G. Cabrera Infante
Here is the shortlist of the best books I've read this year. Loving Garbo by Hugo Vickers (Cape, £29.99). Probably the most entertaining biography of the year, This fountainhead......
Christmas Books
A selection of the best and most overrated books of the year, chosen by some of The Spectator's regular contributors Anita Brookner For me the most rewarding novel of the year......
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