L Ee L Angley Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder...
me on every page. Eleven stories with a narrator who shares Atwood’s sardonic, lethal humour, ability to inspire laughter and touch the heart. Family life, memory, the rueful......
R Obert S Alisbury This Year Seems To Have Taken A Gallic
turn, perhaps appropriately in view of the gathering storm in France. Paris: The Secret History by Andrew Hussey (Viking, £25) is particularly good on low life, as he proves......
D Avid G Ilmour The Most Stimulating Thing I Have Read This
year is Richard Dawkins’ brilliant new book, The God Delusion (Bantam Press, £20). One can hardly read a page without feeling that, if only monotheistic fundamentalists......
B Evis H Illier Usually I Have To Rack My Brains At
this season to try to dredge up the titles of the books which have most appealed to me since New Year’s Day. But this year two books stand out. One is John Fowles: The Journals,......
J Onathan S Umption Robert And Isabelle Tombs’ That Sweet...
£25) is history with the grand sweep, an elegant and perceptive account of Anglo-French relations over the three centuries since Louis XIV, ranging from food to literature to......
P Hilip Z Iegler I Normally Get Little Pleasure From...
but C. J. Sansom’s Sovereign (Macmillan, £19.99) is both marvellously exciting to read and a totally convincing evocation of England in the reign of Henry VIII. Peter Hennessy’s......
A Nne A Pplebaum If You Have To Choose A Single Volume
from the enormous stack of books on Iraq published this year, choose Tom Ricks’s Fiasco (Allen Lane, £25). Unlike many of the other writers, Ricks didn’t start out in opposition......
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