Juliet Townsend
Anyone who enjoys the minutiae of life in the past will have great fun exploring Restoration London by Liza Picard (Weidenfeld, £20) which ranges 'from Poverty to Pets, from......
Samuel Brittan
The books I read for pleasure are rarely those first published in the past year — if only because I do a lot of my reading on trains and therefore find the more lightweight......
Andro Linklater
Jim Crace's Quarantine (Viking, £16.99) was by a country mile the best fiction I read this year. Not since the death of Angela Carter has an English novelist succeeded in......
D. J. Taylor
My series of annual puffs for succeeding volumes of Pierre Coustillas, Paul F. Matheisen and Arthur C. Young's magisterial edition of The Collected Letters of George Gissing......
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