Books

England’s soft underbelly

Patrick West reviews The Channel, by Charlie Connelly

Footnoting the Belfast Agreement’s invisible annex

Owen Polley reviews Breaking Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland by Feargal Cochrane

Brought to Book: James Marriott

Larman on the Editor hounded off Twitter for saying male novelists are being excluded

What would Terry Pratchett have made of 2020?

Hard graft and moral clarity were central to the Discworld author’s success

Criminally good writing

Jeremy Black reviews The Man Who Didn’t Fly, by Margot Bennett

How I discovered secondhand books

A home with books is a launching pad for a life well lived, says Daniel Johnson

How to cheat the bestseller list

Buying your way into the book charts is more widespread than you might think

The author who is ‘ex-Black’

Louise Perry reviews ‘Self-Portrait in Black and White’ by Thomas Chatterton Williams

Miss Havisham on heroin

Natasha Green reviews Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders, by Kate Griffin

A troubled behemoth

John Bowers QC reviews Facebook: The Inside Story, by Steven Levy