Geoffrey Wheatcroft
A flighty lady novelist and a socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer might not seem to have much in common, but Hugh Dalton and Nancy Mitford were not only both gentlefolk of......
Rupert Christiansen
New fiction still seems to command an excessive amount of attention at the ex- pense of less obviously 'creative' writing, with more mystique wrapped round a third-rate novelist......
James Lees-milne
1985 has been a very rich year in the sort of books that appeal to me. Robert Gittings's and Jo Manton's Dorothy Wordsworth is a masterpiece of reconstruction of the uneventful......
Duncan Fallowell
Best books: Nicolai Leskov, The Enchanted Wanderer (The Soho Book Company). The only English book in print from this wonderful 1 9th-century Russian writer, a 1926 trans- lation......
Richard Cobb
The book I have most enjoyed reading this year is La Forme d'une Ville (Paris, Jose Corti, 1985) by the West of France novelist Julien Gracq (Jacques Poirier), now aged 75. It......
Previous page
