Books Of The Year
A selection of the best and worst books of the year chosen by some of the Spectator's regular reviewers. Peregrine Worsthorne The book I most admired was Kingsley Amis's Stanley......
Jo Grimond
Best books: The 2024 Report: A Concise History of the Future by Norman Macrae. Even those who grow choleric over Futur- ology, among whom I count myself, should see if they can......
Richard Cobb
I read about 86 novels this summer in the course of about 80 days and my enjoyment of the novel has survived. Apart from the six books on our short list for the Booker McConnell......
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Best books: The Cretan Journal by Edward Lear. No need to know Crete to enjoy this well-produced and captivating diary. Lear's coloured and monochrome pictures of people and......
Peter Levi
Bad books are not what they were. You give them away or throw them away or you forget them. The few prize specimens you keep look pale beside the bad books of the good old days.......
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