Raymond Keene
Virgil's Aeneid, translated by John Dryden (Penguin Classics, £9.99). I first tried Virgil's Augustan epic when I Was 12, at times in the original, then in t ranslation, but......
Michael Vestey
For me it has been a year of diaries and Memoirs, beginning with Another Self by James Lees-Milne (John Murray, £16.99), a reissue of the 1970 autobiography of his early years.......
Digby Anderson
A leading contender for the worst thing to happen this century must be the wanton destruction of western church liturgies , notably the Tridentine Mass and the Book of Common......
Francis King
The most remarkable non-fiction book of the year — surely destined to become a minor classic — was undoubtedly John Bayley's Iris (Duckworth, £16.95). Since this liber amoris......