Remainders of the Day

Shaun Bythell

Profile, £16.99, 377 pages

Once Upon A Tome

Oliver Darkshire

Bantam Press, £14.99, 244 pages

Graham Greene was not merely the 20th century’s most assured chronicler of Catholic guilt, but perhaps the most ardent author-bibliophile that there has ever been. Not only did he take a perverse delight in inscribing copies of his books that he discovered by chance in far-flung locations – making them impossibly desirable for whichever unsuspecting collector came across them – but he himself built up a magnificent library of association copies that is now retained by the Burns Library in Boston, Massachusetts.