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“Hello, Bookstore.” That’s how Matthew Tannenbaum answers the phone a dozen times a day at his independent bookshop in Lenox, Massachusetts, always with the same gentle, curious voice. (He’s an old hippy; you could imagine him played by Mark Rylance in the movie of his life.)Booklovers will instantly feel at home in this documentary and in Tannenbaum’s store – a warm inviting hang-out, a little shabby with comfy armchairs to settle down in, children curled up on the floor noses in books. It’s clearly a bookshop full of…

Anthony Horowitz’s third James Bond tale begins both dynamically and canonically. It starts immediately after the events of Ian Fleming’s final Bond novel, The Man With the Golden Gun, at M’s funeral; his murderer is none other than 007, who has now been brainwashed by the Russians and turned into their prime asset. Nothing is as it seems, though, and a labyrinthine game of spycraft develops, with Bond caught between British intelligence and a dastardly group of Smersh villains who regard Khrushchev as too moderate. They…