John Osborne

1987: Move house. Amidst the dust of demolition and day-long Radio One, Judith and Martin Miller's Period Details: A Source for House Restoration (Mitchell Beazley, £14.95) has......

Anthony Blond

`This is what you English call justice', shouted Queen Victoria in defence of her favourite Indian servant Munshi, correctly accused of having flogged one of her brooches for......

Gavin Stamp

There have been several good architectural books this year, notably Andrew Saint's Towards a Social Architecture (Yale, £19.95) and David Watkin's and Tilman Mellinghoff's......

Noel Malcolm

At the age of 32, when he was recognised as one of the world's most talented pian- ists, Glenn Gould gave up live concerts altogether and retreated to the recording studio. His......

Hugh Lloyd-jones

Each of the two books about Greek literature published in 1987 that have impressed me most is the first book of a young scholar, based on his doctoral dis- sertation. The......

Taki

Deciding which of the books I read were my favourites in 1987, is a bit like asking T.S. Eliot which is the cruellest month. There are two books that stick out, rather as my......

Mary Keen

We read Fry and Eliot in the Sixties, but I don't remember coming across much poe- tic drama since then. Craig Raine's The Electrification of the Soviet Union (Faber, £3.50) was......