Gabriele Annan
I loved Milan Kundera's Immortality, (Faber, £14.99) a cool, funny, sophisticated novel based on a tragic view of life. Louis Begley's Wartime Lies (Alfred Knopf) is a......
Hilary Corke
Some literary bof (boring old fart) said, and surely more than once, that every time a new book came out he re-read an old one; and I am afraid I am a bof in this, as no doubt......
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Books of the Year A selection of the best or most overrated books of the year, chosen by some of The Spectator's regular contributors John Osborne Manacled to the typewriter,......
John Jolliffe
First, Figaro. Here, Figaro There by Freddie Stockdale (John Murray, £16.95), an impresario's diary by the creator and manager of Pavilion Opera. The reader is soon lost in......
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