Kathleen Raine
No doubt others will name some of the many excellent works of history and biography which I seldom have time to read but in which England still continues to ex- cel. The best......
P. J. Kavanagh
I am tempted to give, as my most enjoyed books of 1982, three by the same author, Geoffrey Grigson (published by Allison & Busby). The favourite adjective attached to Grigson......
Simon Courtauld
Jacobo Timerman's The Longest War (Chatto & Windus and Picador) is a remarkable indictment, by a Jew living in Israel, of the Begin government for pro- secuting the war in......
J. G. Links
In The Image and the Eye (Phaidon) Sir Ernst Gombrich has again led us entertain- ingly along the path towards understanding Gestalt psychology and all that; occasionally the......
Books Of The Year
We continue our contributors' choice of the books they have most enjoyed in 1982. Harold Acton A History of World Art by Hugh Honour and John Fleming (Macmillan) is unques-......
Richard West
Two of the books I most enjoyed this year were paperback reprints of classic works: Elephant Bill by Lt Col J. H. Williams, first published in 1950, and An English Lady in the......
John Keegan
The most important work of military history to appear this year, and for several past, is William H. McNeill's The Pursuit of Power (Blackwell) a superbly tenden- tious attempt......
Arthur Marshall
There are a number of books that I happily re-read every year, among them The En- chanted April, Vile Bodies and Wode- house's The World of Mr Mulliner, and to this list I now......
Richard Ingrams
The First Clerihews by E. C. Bentley (OUP) is a nicely produced facsimile of the St Paul's School notebook with G. K. C's drawings. I also enjoyed Brief Lives by Alan Watkins......
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