Bitterness surrounding bishop and his favourite book? (5)
I believe the answer is:
bible
'book?' is the definition.
(bible is a kind of book)
'bitterness surrounding bishop' is the wordplay.
'bitterness' becomes 'bile' (I've seen this in other clues).
'surrounding' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'bishop' becomes 'B' (chess abbreviation).
'bile' going around 'b' is 'BIBLE'.
'and his favourite' is the link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bible that I've seen before include "The Good Book" , "Christian holy book" , "Authoritative book" , "It contains scriptures" , "Book of the Scriptures" .)