Sunday with Neil Gaiman: ‘I’m left to make things up, uninterrupted’
The writer on hiking, overeating – and bedtime stories
Adam Kay: ‘Game-playing is a great way of getting yourself to face a challenge’
The doctor turned comic and bestselling author on writing children’s books, hiding useful facts in disgusting jokes and how bad at Scrabble he is
Colm Tóibín: ‘Boris Johnson would be a blood clot … Angela Merkel the cancer’
The acclaimed novelist on chemotherapy, growing up gay in Ireland and writing his first poetry collection at the age of 66
Sunday with Jon Ronson: ‘Around 5.30am I feed the birds’
The writer on thuggish blue jays, grains and dustbins
The world according to Guido Palau, the man behind fashion’s hottest hairstyles
The uber-stylist and author of a book of images capturing a nation in lockdown explains how the way we wear our locks reflects the changing zeitgeist
Marcus Rashford: ‘My life was far from a fairytale’
The England footballer, author and poverty campaigner on instilling self-belief in pupils at his old school, his favourite titles of 2021, and his hopes for his book club
‘A sense of discovery’: Philip Pullman on religion, school plays and The Book of Dust
As an adaptation of La Belle Sauvage arrives at the Bridge theatre, the author explains why His Dark Materials was better as a play than a film – and how he learned to write for children and adults
Yorkshire shepherdess Amanda Owen: ‘The only spa I know about is a Spar shop’
The star of hit TV show Our Yorkshire Farm on raising nine children and being a bestselling author despite flunking English
Bookseller Samir Mansour: ‘It was shocking to realise I was a target’
The Palestinian bookseller whose shop was destroyed in the most recent conflict in Gaza on how it has been crowdfunded back into existence – three times bigger
Torrey Peters: ‘My book’s about dealing with the adult realities of being trans’
The acclaimed author of Detransition, Baby talks about the novel’s breakthrough success and how she was moved by the support of contemporaries
‘I’ve healed. I don’t want to be the badass’ – Noomi Rapace on beating her Dragon Tattoo trauma
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo brought her global fame but trapped her in ‘pain and sadness’. The actor reveals how starring in weird new thriller Lamb made her feel alive again
Lydia Davis: ‘I write it the way I want to write it’
The author on flash fiction, translation as a route to creativity, and why we need to prioritise the climate crisis over ‘business as usual with writing’
Author Preti Taneja on realising she had taught the Fishmongers’ Hall attacker: ‘We were all unsafe’
It was the day after the London Bridge atrocity that the writer discovered she knew the man responsible. Two years later, she reflects on that time and the fallout that followed
Outlander author Diana Gabaldon: ‘I needed Scotsmen because of the kilt factor’
She secretly wrote the first of her time-travelling novels while her husband slept. Now she’s published the ninth in the smash hit series. She talks explosive sex scenes – and where George RR Martin went wrong
The Appeal writer Janice Hallett: ‘I wrote about bubble bath for 15 years’
The author of the bestselling whodunnit on co-writing a 2011 film about a pandemic, her love of suspense, and what Dickens has in common with Jackie Collins