Jennifer Paterson
My best read this year has been going straight through Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy, as I had only read Men at Arms before. These books must contain some of the......
Eric Christiansen
If there were more recent English fiction like Nigel Balchin's The Small Back Room (Collins, £10.95) it would be no loss. This book reminded me that it is possible to write well......
Alan Watkins
Anthony Howard's Rab (Cape, £15) is most readable, and masterly on Tory High Politics, those of the 1951-63 period parti- cularly: I never realised before how close Butler was......
J. G. Links
The Book and the Brotherhood (Chatto, £11.95) is one of the best books of the year I have read. I don't see how any other novel could compete in a good Iris Mur- doch year but......
Alastair Forbes
A bitter loss to Europe and mankind in 1987 was that of Primo Levi, whose sudden plunge down the stairwell of his gloomy Turin apartment building marked his final defeat at the......
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