The Conservative party were once the country party. They could be again. It might even net them some votes

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

Compared to his peers, Evelyn Waugh has not had the range or quality of adaptations that he deserves

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

Joseph Connolly treasures his friendship with his literary hero

Tom Chesshyre recounts Dickens’s troubled history with trains

Who was the “real” Sean Connery?

In the dictionary of the demagogues there is only a single word: obey

As Greene explained to his wife when their marriage ended, what made him a bad husband was precisely what made him a good writer