Harriet Waugh
The only two books that have given me unalloyed pleasure this year have been Robert Gray's The King's Wife (Seeker & Warburg, £17.95) and the poet Paul Dur- can's new volume,......
Michael Horovitz
Memoirs of a Bastard Angel by Harold Norse (Bloomsbury, £25, £9.99) was pan- ned by most reviewers, mainly on the ground that if his reminiscences are to be believed Norse would......
Brian Martin
Christmas brings us towards the end of this centenary year of John Henry Newman's death. No one interested in Newman stu- dies would have expected yet another biography to......
Patrick Marnham
The best book this year was Daddy, Daddy, the new collection of Paul Durcan's poems (The Blackstaff Press, £5.95). In one of the political poems he puts forward an original......
Alastair Forbes
The Independent's marvellous Miles King- ton (Welcome to Kington, Penguin, £7) and t he cartoonist pair Alex (Alex III, Penguin, £4.99), have for my money been by far the best......
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