Eric Christiansen
Quartet Books have done well with Volume I of A Writer's Diary by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; 805 pages at £25 gets you to 1876, and the wild man at his worst, raving about Slav......
Richard Lamb
The finest book on the second world war which I have read for years is Christopher Seton-Watson's Dunkirk — Bologna Alamein (Buckland, £14.95) — much praised in The Spectator by......
Ian Hislop
This year I seem to have read only books that people were talking about last year. They have therefore lost their dinner-party value, but some of them are still quite good. I......
Christmas Books Ii
A further selection of the best and most overrated books of the year; chosen by some of The Spectator's regular contributors John Osborne I rarely pass judgment on novels for......
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