Gina Miller: ‘How do we preserve Britain as a tolerant place?’
The Brexit challenger on the battle to save our constitution
William Gibson: ‘I was losing a sense of how weird the real world was’
The writer who invented ‘cyberspace’ – and possibly the most influential living sci-fi author – on the challenges of keeping up with a reality even stranger than fiction
How to dump Trump: Rick Wilson on Running Against the Devil
He was a Republican ad man but now he’s a bestselling author out to bring down a president. He says Democrats must listen
Carmen Maria Machado: ‘I wished that I had a police report, or a black eye’
The author’s memoir In the Dream House addresses the taboo of abuse in lesbian relationships. She talks about homophobia, healing – and finding fun in fiction
‘We’ve always been honest about our weight loss’: the Pinch of Nom chefs on their recipe for success
From posting healthy meal ideas on Facebook and running a restaurant, Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson went on to write bestselling slimming books that grew out of their own efforts to lose weight – and started a global phenomenon
‘I want this book to be politically useful’: the explosive memoir exposing Silicon Valley
Unregulated surveillance, ruthless bosses, sexual harassment … after years working at tech startups, Anna Wiener is taking them on in Uncanny Valley
‘Even dust can be interesting’: the woman who photographs housework
Clare Gallagher works full-time then comes home to the ‘mind-numbing’ toil of laundry, dishes, cooking and cleaning. So what happened when she started photographing it all?
Joseph O’Connor: ‘A prize nomination brings out your inner Gollum’
The Irish novelist on an ancestor’s encounter with Count Dracula’s creator
Vigdis Hjorth: ‘I won’t talk about my family… I’m in enough trouble’
The writer’s hard-hitting autobiographical novel sparked fury in her own family. Here she talks about lying to survive – and shedding those lies
Raymond Antrobus: ‘In some ways, poetry is my first language’
The award-winning poet on addressing the loss of his father, owning his deafness and being added to the school syllabus
Kiley Reid: ‘Some black women say: “I don’t want to explain anything.” I’m not one of them’
There is so much buzz around Reid’s debut Such a Fun Age that she is already working on a film adaptation. She talks about class, race and healthcare
Jeanette Winterson: ‘I didn’t see this coming’
The novelist on the threats posed by artificial intelligence, having ‘northern moments’ and why she reads A Christmas Carol every year
Why Julian Clary loves mincing … but says bah humbug to mince pies
From panto to drama, touring and writing his books, the comedian loves multitasking. Just don’t ask him to your Christmas party…
Leah Purcell on reinventing The Drover’s Wife three times: ‘I borrowed and stole from each’
The actor, playwright and screenwriter’s first novel solidifies her take on Henry Lawson’s classic: first a play, now a book, soon a film
Raymond Briggs: ‘Everything takes so bloody long when you’re old’
The Snowman author has always looked hard truths and bogeymen in the eye. He talks about his frank new illustrated memoir, Time for Lights Out