Rupert Christiansen
John Banville's ventriloquistic imperson- ation of a Bluntian art historian in The Untouchable (Picador, £15.99) is a tour de force. For the real thing, I then turned to the new......
Allan Mallinson
I have lived with successive volumes of the Marquess of Anglesey's History of the British Cavalry for a quarter of a century. Each has been an entertaining revelation, none more......
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......
Richard Lamb
I found Nigel Nicolson's Long Life (Weidenfeld, £20) fascinating. I belong to the same generation, and his colourful description of the ups and downs of his public and family......
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