Previous weeks reviews

BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Our critics tell us what they have enjoyed reading most this year
Various
Reviewed by Various

G.W. Bernard
Reviewed by Eamon Duffy

Andrew Delbanco
Reviewed by Robert Nye

Richard Hoggart
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh

C.L.R. James
Reviewed by Michael Estorick

Peter Strafford
Reviewed by Alain Woodrow

Attracted to dark forces
The Narnian: the life and imagination of C.S. Lewis
Alan Jacobs
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Rupert Shortt
Reviewed by Philip McCosker

Arthur Kirsch
Reviewed by Anthony Kenny

David Almond
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs

Gita May
Reviewed by John McEwen

Charles Yeats
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Annie of Jesus
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Edward Beauclerk Maurice
Reviewed by David McLaurin

Rodney Bolt
Reviewed by David McLaurin

France’s century of upheaval
La Vie en Bleu: France and the French since 1900
Rod Kedward
Reviewed by Philip Crispin

Ian Kelly
Reviewed by Robert Thicknesse

E.H. Gombrich
Reviewed by Selina O’Grady

Paul Auster
Reviewed by Michael McHale

Andrew Biswell
Reviewed by Ian Ker

Lynne Truss
Reviewed by Libby Purves

David Gilmour
Reviewed by David Goodall

Robin Lane Fox
Reviewed by Dot Wordsworth

Adam Jacot de Boinod
Reviewed by Dot Wordsworth

Roger Hudson
Reviewed by Dot Wordsworth