Books

Defender, though not of the faith

16th January, 2008

The Second Plane by Martin Amis

Gossip from Lamb House

16th January, 2008

Henry James’s Waistcoat: Letters to Mrs Ford, 1907-1915 by Foreword by Philip Horne, edited by Rosalind Bleach

Jealous neighbourhood watch

16th January, 2008

The Hunt for Nazi Spies by Simon Kitson, translated by Catherine Tihanyi

Too much in Arcadia

16th January, 2008

Earls of Paradise by Adam Nicolson

Vagabonds in Paris

16th January, 2008

Dans le Café de la Jeunnesse Perdue by Patrick Modiano

Would they have ended up grumpy old men?

9th January, 2008

Allan Massie wonders what would have happened to those who died young in their old age

Correction

9th January, 2008

Omissions and admissions

9th January, 2008

How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by by Pierre Bayard, translated by Geoffrey Mehlman

An abstract debate

9th January, 2008

Homecoming by by Bernhard Schlink

The king of peace

9th January, 2008

Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by by Avi Shlaim

By so many, to so few

9th January, 2008

A Blogger’s Manifesto by by Eric Ringmar

Too much zeal

2nd January, 2008

Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming by Christopher Booker and Richard North

Smitten for life

2nd January, 2008

The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa

Growing old gracefully

2nd January, 2008

Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill

Undoing the folded lie

2nd January, 2008

A New Waste Land by Michael Horowitz

From one extreme to the other

2nd January, 2008

Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed by Martin Evans and John Phillips

Going on and on

2nd January, 2008

My Life by Fidel Castro

Always on the side of the wolf

2nd January, 2008

It was the Nightingale by Ford Maddox

When the sun finally set

11th December, 2007

The Raj Quartet 1: The Jewel in the Crown, A Division of the Spoils by Paul Scott, introduced by Hilary Spurling

A Christmas Song

11th December, 2007