Patrick Leigh Fermor
It didn't matter that, in spite of a second reading, the denouement of Bruce Chatwin's Utz (Cape, £9.95) is still an enigma: the vigour of the writing, the images, the sinister......
Piers Paul Read
The most astonishing book that I read during the year was The Way of Paradox (Darton, Longman & Todd, £4.95) by the Benedictine monk, Cyprian Smith. It pre- tends to be no more......
Paul Johnson
For sheer readability, nothing in 1988 surpassed the latest Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume VI, 1850-1852, edited by Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson and Nina Burgis......
John Osborne
Simon Gray's How's That for Telling 'em, Fat Lady? (Faber, £5.95) is not only the funniest book ever written about the American theatre, but a billiously accurate memoir of the......
Richard Cobb
There is always a great deal of satisfaction in reading about journeys carried out, generally in winter, in conditions of ex- treme discomfort and to places where you have to......
J. L. Carr
Penelope Fitzgerald's The Beginning of Spring (Collins, £10.95) suited me perfect- ly. I like a novel with a comprehensible shape and this is a believably entertaining story......
Ludovic Kennedy
For novels of scope and depth these days one has to look abroad, mostly to Australia and the Americas, and the one I enjoyed most was Tom Wolfe's exciting debut in fiction, The......
Anita Brookner
I enjoyed nothing so much as The Letters of Edith Wharton (Simon & Schuster, £17.95), a tremendously vivid and very moving collection. I also liked two books of memoirs: Shusha......
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