Books Of The Year
A further selection of the best and most overrated books of the year by some of the Spectator's regular reviewers and contributors. Jennifer Paterson I enjoyed Mrs Wharton's The......
Patrick Leigh Fermour
The Enigmatic Edwardian, the Life of Reginald First Viscount Esher by James Lees-Milne. Enigmatic indeed, and absorbing. After wondering how subli- mated were the hot house......
John Jolliffe
Innocence (Collins) by Penelope Fitzgerald is the new book I have most enjoyed this year. I know of nobody who expresses so deftly and entertainingly, and without overdoing it,......
Hugh Cecil The Volume That Has Given Me Greatest Pleasure
this year is Dermod MacCarthy's Sailing with Mr Belloc (Collins/Harvill), a memoir recalling the author's nerve- racking and hilarious coastal cruises in an ancient wooden......
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