My year in books
This has been a good year for new books by long established authors, in fact, the publishing phenomenon was the second book by Harper Lee, To Set a Watchman which was the sequel to her To Kill a Mocki ...
BOOK REVIEWS
Books You’ll Never Read and Word Play
ROBERT TANITCH’S ROUND-UP OF BOOKS No 13 THE GREATEST BOOKS YOU’LL NEVER READ (Cassell Illustrated £20) is a collection of literature’s lost and unfinished masterpieces. This is a fascinating book an ...
Books on Orson Welles and John Osborne
Robert Tanitch’s Round-Up of Books No 12 ORSON WELLES One Man Band by Simon Callow (Jonathan Cape £25). The third volume has a tremendous panache, matching Welles’s own bravura and extraordinary energ ...
Books about the world today and yesterday
ROBERT TANITCH’S ROUND-UP OF BOOKS No 11 EVOLUTION THE WHOLE STORY (Thames & Hudson £19.95). “I would rather be an off-spring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth,” said one emin ...