Robin Oakley
Nothing in racing writing this year had the elegance of Lord Jenkins's report on elec- toral reform or the ingenuity of Turf clas- sics like Jack Leach's Sods I have Cut on the......
Dot Wordsworth
For me Beyond the Prosaic, edited by Strat- ford Caldecott (T&T Clark, £21.95), was of practical importance this year. This is because its subject is the liturgy, and just at......
Paul Johnson
It is not quite impossible to produce a dull book on Jane Austen — it has actually been done by that gruesome old battle-axe Marylyn Butler — but it is hard to produce two......
Christopher Fildes
A good year for fat books about the seri- ously rich. The World's Banker (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £30) is Niall Ferguson's sweep- ing account of the Rothschilds in their hey- day......
David Fingleton
When an Australian law graduate, now Geoffrey Robertson QC, decided to remain here and practise at the English bar after his studies at Oxford, he blew a breath of fresh air......
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