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Lead book review

Spectator writers' Christmas book choices

Books of the year from Philip Hensher, Jane Ridley, Barry Humphries, Jane Ridley, Melanie McDonagh, Matthew Parris, Nicky Haslam and more

23 November 2013

9:00 AM

23 November 2013

9:00 AM

Byron Rogers

Rhys Davies by Meic Stephens (Parthian, £20). This is the first full-length biography of the grocer’s son from the Valleys who, in the course of a long and industrious life spent mainly in London (where guardsmen were), wrote over 100 short stories and 20 novels and was hailed as the Welsh Chekhov.

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Ian Shircore is the author (with David Southwell) of John F. Kennedy: The Life, the President, the Assassination.

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