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The Complete Bible Handbook, Dorling Kindersley, £25...
CHOICE for book of the year has to be The Complete Bible Handbook, edited by John Bowker (Dorling Kindersley: £25), which I reviewed a few weeks ago. The more I consider it, the......
The Works Of J.r.r. Tolkien And C.s. Lewis's Chronicles Of
Narnia DAVID ALTON 0 NE OF THE secret delights of reading books with young children is being able to return to the favourites of your own youth. Having devoured the Chronicles......
Who Are We Now? By Nicholas Boyle, T&t Clark, £24.95
EAMON DUFFY T HE MOST challenging book I have read this year is Nicholas Boyle's Who Are We Now? Christian Humanism and the Global Market (T&T Clark, £24.95), a profound......
C.s. Lewis — At Home In Ireland, By David Bleakley,
Strandtown Press WALTER HOOPER M ANY BOOKS about C. S . Lewis have appeared this year, but the one that has brought me the greatest joy is David Bleakley's C.S. Lewis — at Home......
The Papal Encyclical Faith And Reason, By Pope John Paul Ii
J.J. SCARISBRICK F AR AND AWAY the most important thing I have read this year is the latest papal encyclical, Faith and Reason, which strikes me as astonishing even by the......
Antonia White: A Life, By Jane Dunn, Jonathan Cape Ian
KER T O ME, feminism's greatest achievement is the Virago Press which reissued Antonia White's wonderful autobiographical novel about her convent schooldays, Frost in May,......
Tiger Sky, By Rachel Billington, Macmillan £16.99...
AMUSED last week to find a favourite critic of mine on the warpath. He was scolding his colleagues for always choosing books written by their pals. I am going one better:......
Monks Of England, Spck £20
DAVID TWISTON DAVIES ONKS OF England (SPCK £20) gave me the most satisfaction this year. A series of essays by scholars for general readers, it recounts the Benedictine story......
The Unknown Matisse: A Life Of Matisse, Vol I 18691908....
PATRICK REYNTIENS T HE LUMINOUS and sensual Art of Matisse, with its celebration of hope and well-being, arose out of the most depressing circumstance. From a French northern......
Can Reindeer Fly? By Roger Highfield, Metro £12.99
NICK THOMAS T O PRODUCE a book called Can Reindeer Fly? The Science of Christmas (Metro £12.99) in December was a stroke of marketing genius, and Roger Highfield and his......
George Iii: A Personal History, By Christopher Hibbert,...
JAMES MUNSON 1VIY Boot< of the Year is Christo pher Hibbert's George III: A Personal History (Viking. £20). Because I've written a similar book on Queen Victo ria I appreciate......
Young Wilhelm, By John C.g. Rohl, Cambridge University...
RICHARD MULLEN T HE MOST impressive book I have read this year is Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life 1859-1888 by John C.G. Rohl (Cambridge University Press, £45). This is......
Saints And Sinners, By Eamon Duffy, Yale £16.95
PIERS PAUL READ E AMON DUFFY'S Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes (Yale £16.95) was written to accompany a television series that does not seem to have reached our......
The Pity Of War, By Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press £18.99
Stalingrad, by Antony Beevor Master Georgie, by Beryl Bainbridge, Duckworth £14.99 CLAUS VON BULOW T HIS YEAR has seen a number of books to remind us of the ideals, heroism and......
Guilty Men, By Hywell Williams, Aurum Press £19.95...
M Y FIRST BOOK of the year has to be Guilty Men (Aurum Press £19.95), the story of the unravelling of the Tory Party by John Redwood's former special adviser Hywell Williams.......
The Bachelor Duke, By James Lees-milne, John Murray...
WRIOTHESLEY VERY MUCH enjoyed The Bachelor Duke by James Lees-Milne (John Murray, £12.99). This is a paperback edition of a book, first published in 1981, about the amiable......