Dissect articles on book about island (9)
I believe the answer is:
anatomise
'dissect' is the definition.
(anatomising is a kind of dissecting)
'articles on book about island' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'articles' could be 'ana' ('an' and 'a', English indefinite articles) and 'ana' is located in the answer.
'island' could be 'is' (abbreviation) and 'is' is found in the answer.
'book' could be 'tome' (a tome is a book) and 'tome' is located in the leftover letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for anatomise that I've seen is " Closely examine".)