Books
A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism
György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy
All Booked Up
Is there a cure for bibliomania?
The demise of the second-hand bookshop
Why Oxfam bookshops, as tremendous as they are, may be the end of the second-hand bookseller
Footnoting the Belfast Agreement’s invisible annex
Owen Polley reviews Breaking Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland by Feargal Cochrane
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
Miss Havisham on heroin
Natasha Green reviews Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders, by Kate Griffin
Billy Liar was fiction’s first OCD hero, yet nobody noticed
Rev Steve Morris revisits Keith Waterhouse’s forgotten classic
Brideshead Revisited at 75
In its combination of glacial beauty and lovelorn desperation, Brideshead Revisited speaks to all readers, Alexander Larman writes
Closing the books
Thomas Woodham-Smith finds the latest research is online