Books

Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’

Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people

Michaela Community School is unique in its robust defence of tradition, truth, belonging and other conservative instincts

The spouse of a longstanding MP has an opportunity to offer a particular perspective

More and more books are published but life is hard for the aspiring writer

Varoufakis’s new novel, Another Now, is full of incoherent blather between dolts

Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett

Contrasting works from a veteran master of invention and two newer faces who blur fact and fiction

John Bolton’s account of his time in the Trump administration gives a damning report of the president’s ignorance

Derrida’s prose, which stops being turgid only in order to be turbid, is utterly incomprehensible