Books on history
ROBERT TANITCH’S ROUND-UP OF BOOKS No 8 SAMUEL PEPYS PLAGUE, FIRE REVOLUTION (Thames & Hudson £29.95). Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) secretary to the Admiralty Board, MP, theatregoer and diarist, lived ...
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Biographies and autobiographies of Maggie Smith, Peter O’Toole and David Hare
ROBERT TANITCH’S ROUND-UP OF BOOKS No 5 MAGGIE SMITH by Michael Coveney (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £20) is Avery readable account of her career. I first saw her in a revue with Kenneth Williams and then ...
Three major books on art
Robert Tanitch’s round-up of books No 2 BODY OF ART (Phaidon £39.95). This is a splendid and engrossing book, wide in its scope and each page a joy: the poise and elegance of Raphael, the bravura brus ...
To Oldly Go with Bradt Travel Guides
When Hilary Bradt and her then husband George set out on their travels in South America in 1973, little could they have realised that the journey they were embarking upon would lead to the creation of ...