John Mcewen
THE Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun, translated by Sian Evans (Camden Press, £15.95). The first unabridged version in English by that great rarity, an artist who had an......
Colin Thubron
MY travel book of the year is V. S. Naipaul's A Turn in the South (Viking, £14.95), which recounts a journey through the Deep South of the United States. In a region haunted by......
Anne Chisholm
TWO entirely different novels of contem- porary life gave me great pleasure: Martin Amis' London Fields (Cape, £12.95), probably the most unhelpfully over- promoted book this......
Frances Partridge
PROMINENT among the year's harvest, Richard Holmes's Coleridge (Hodder & Stoughton, £16.95) is absolutely up to his high standard and a book that is bound to last. The hero and......
Robert Blake
SIR Penderel Moon's The British Conquest and Dominion of India (Duckworth, £60) costs less than a decent dinner for two in London and is a marvellous work of scholarship by a......
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