‘Choose drugs?’ 30 years after he wrote Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh says life is tougher now
The book was a stark warning about heroin use. But its author believes the message has changed
Khaled Khalifa: ‘All the places of my childhood are destroyed’
The award-winning Syrian novelist on Aleppo, the city of his ‘soul’, his fascination with the late 19th century, and his youthful introduction to Chekhov
Yomi Adegoke: ‘There’s something inherently cringe about writing fiction’
The novelist and Slay in Your Lane co-author talks about her journey via Twitter to become a writer, and channelling her experience of social media into debut novel The List
‘No case to answer’: the Londoner arrested for murder on the injustice that shaped his life
Kenny Imafidon was arrested under the controversial ‘joint enterprise’ law. After six months behind bars, his case was thrown out. Now 30, he has written a breathtaking memoir about his early years, acquittal – and what can be done to change the system
Eliza Clark: ‘I’m more primary school teacher than enfant terrible’
Hailed by Granta as one of Britain’s best young novelists, the author of the TikTok sensation Boy Parts talks about her new book, a crime story based on a real-life murder – and why Bret Easton Ellis wouldn’t talk to her
‘I have overwhelming impostor syndrome’: TV judge Rob Rinder on empathy, shame and survival
He grew up gay in a working-class community, before becoming a criminal barrister, then moving into television. Now he has written his first novel
‘If you have dreams, follow them!’ Paul Nicholas on Bowie, the Bee Gees, playing Jesus – and ruffling the king’s hair
In six decades in showbiz, he has been murdered by Screaming Lord Sutch, played the lead in Hair, had hit singles and a hit sitcom – and surprised Serge Gainsbourg
‘We need to talk about the end’: Wendy Mitchell on living positively with Alzheimer’s
Since being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Wendy Mitchell has written three books, taken up photography and walked a 1,000ft highwire. Living your best life, she reveals, also means confronting death
Beth Mead: ‘I told Saka just to curtsy when he sees me!’
The Arsenal and England footballer on her MBE, her terrible singing voice – and the best and worst year of her life
‘Dark side of the human spirit’: Stephen Bright’s death penalty fight
Doyen of death row lawyers releases The Fear of Too Much Justice, a book named for a famous supreme court dissent
Ashleigh Nugent: ‘Black stories were always about London’
The writer on the long gestation of Locks – his debut novel set in 90s Merseyside – his work in prisons and what Virginia Woolf has taught him
Writer Rachel Eliza Griffiths: ‘There’s a strength you don’t realise you have access to’
The novelist on inheriting her mother’s ferocity, gun violence in the US and the attack on her husband, Salman Rushdie, last year
Barbara Kingsolver: ‘Rural people are so angry they want to blow up the system’
The first author to win the Women’s prize for fiction twice on how Charles Dickens – and rage about the opioid crisis – helped her write ‘the great Appalachian novel’
Adele Bertei: ‘We did all the things rock’n’roll boys would be lionised for’
The creator of the first all-female openly queer rock band talks about her memoir and why the music scene wasn’t ready for her
James Comey: ‘I’d like to take readers inside the White House’
The former FBI director, who was sacked by Donald Trump, on parallels between the ex-president and mafia bosses, why he would never run for office, and his new crime thriller