21 NOVEMBER 1998, page 42

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......

Simon Barnes

I bought a fancy new edition of Ulysses when covering a rugby match in Dublin. I won't offer an interpretation of the book — I believe it's been done before — but will say that......

The Spectator Bookshop

Booksfot Christmas Another World by Pat Barker 'The confident vigour of the writing is as bracing as a November wind whipping up the Tyne' Helen Osborne, The Spectator Iris by......