Martin Vander Weyer
I am doomed to read a lot of dull stuff about the financial world, but occasionally there is something more flavoursome. Adam Raphael's Ultimate Risk: The Inside Story of the......
A.n. Wilson
Lawrence James has written what I have long wanted: a readable, intelligent history of the British Empire in one volume. I heartily recommend The Rise and Fall of the British......
Philip Glazebrook
Reading a book aloud surely tests it in every particular, and the least flawed book I've read this year (silently or aloud) has been Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner. An adventure......
Oleg Gordievsky
I have found that the best books of 1994 were Spies and Other Secrets by Nicholas Bethell (Viking, £18) and Conflict of Loyal- y by Geoffrey Howe (Macmillan, £25). Bethell, who......
Caroline Moore
A Change of Climate (Viking, £15) is anoth- er excellent novel by Hilary Mantel, subtle as well as shocking. She writes of evil and the loss of faith, and is bleak, funny and......
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