Anita Brookner
THERE is no contest. The noblest book of the year was Primo Levi's Other People's Trades (Michael Joseph, £12.95) which conferred a genuine feeling of renewal and refreshment.......
Taki
I MUST declare an interest, because Antony Lambton is my friend and Tuscan neighbour, but his book on Lord . Mount- batten (Constable, £12.95) gave me enor- mous pleasure. It......
Ferdinand Mount
SIMON Schama's Citizens (Viking, £20) has - been the ante-post favourite since early on in the betting, but I cannot forbear a side bet on The Last Forest (Dent, £16.95) by......
John Osborne
BERLIOZ has always headed the brief list of my favourite Frenchmen, and his boisterous autobiography is something I return to constantly. Reckless, headlong romantic,......
Frances Donaldson
THE two books which interested me most are The Time of My Life by Denis Healey (Michael' Joseph, £17.95) and Inside Out by Rosie Johnston (Michael Joseph, £12.95). The first is......
John Mortimer
RICHARD Holmes' Coleridge, Early Vi- sions (Hodder & Stoughton, £16.95) strikes exactly the right note of amused, poetic and occasionally exasperated enthu- siasm for its......
Philip Glazebrook
ON account of my want of specialist knowledge of the period, I extracted from Richard 011ard's Clarendon and His Friends (Hamish Hamilton, £15) rather the satisfaction of a......
John Bayley
ANITA Brookner's most searching and imaginative novel to date, Lewis Percy (Cape, £11.95), shows what can happen to a man who both adores the idea of `womankind' and attempts to......
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