Internet Q and A: Phil Bradley trawls the internet and finds answers to this month's readers' queries.
About biography: Michael Holroyd on famous beards and what they reveal and conceal about his subjects.
Plus ca change: Adele Geras can trace the fingerprints of books she loved as a teenager on the books she writes now.
Building bridges in Berlin: Elspeth Hyams chats to the 'very English' Graham Jefcoate, ex-British Library, now Berlin Staatsbibliothek.