We’ve been expecting you, Ms Bond: why fiction needs more female spies
The idea of Gillian Anderson as 007 has caused controversy. But spy fiction is such a rich and inventive genre, isn’t it time to give women a more central role?
Triumphant Warcraft puts Ninja Turtles in the shadows at UK box office
Half-term crowds help propel family-friendly action-thrillers to the top, as Anthony Hopkins/Al Pacino turkey gobbles up just £97
The Man with the Golden Typewriter review – Ian Fleming’s James Bond letters
Fleming’s nephew reveals a jokey side to the author in an entertaining book that you don’t have to be a Bond nut to enjoy
Different Class by Joanne Harris – review
The author of Chocolat revisits St Oswald’s for a twisting thriller with an unerring eye for school life
The Handmaiden review – Park Chan-wook’s lurid lesbian potboiler simmers with sexual tension
An erotic thriller that prioritises female sexuality, and exquisite set design, to intoxicating effect
A moment that changed me: the day my colleague was murdered
We were a band of 12 junior doctors, as close as any family. When we heard the dreadful news about Jeff, I sought solace the only way I knew – through writing
The Hateful Eight; Room; A War; Welcome to Me; Janis: Little Girl Blue; Welcome to Leith – review
Quentin Tarantino’s western locks eight of the usual suspects in a cabin together, but none can match Brie Larson for captivating viewing
Paula Hawkins: The woman behind The Girl on the Train
The author of the record-breaking thriller on why she gave up writing romcoms, never wanted children and her surprise success
The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund review – relentlessly disturbing
The discovery of mutilated children’s bodies sets the scene in this extremely dark international hit from Sweden
Bond director Guy Hamilton: a career in clips
He was known for classic 007 capers and popular adaptations of Agatha Christie novels. Here’s a look through the 30-year career of the late British film-maker – and one-time Orson Welles body double
Emily Blunt is tracking a murder in first trailer for The Girl on the Train
A first look at the adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ best-selling mystery suggests a Gone Girl-sized hit
Today’s Jim Naughtie: ‘Working with somebody at 4am can test a friendship’
The former Radio 4 news anchor talks about life after leaving the show, rumours of an ongoing rift with fellow presenter John Humphrys, and writing his latest thriller
The Poison Artist by Jonathan Moore review – the streets of San Francisco prove genuinely scary
An enigmatic woman comes between a toxicologist and a murderer in this hypnotic and disturbing thriller
Fifty shades of shame (or why you won’t find the books I read on my shelves)
The worthy titles people display at home are often unread, while private passions – from Dan Brown to Christian Grey – are shuffled swiftly off to Oxfam
Comedian turns novelist in the Channel Islands
Will Smith, who stars in The Thick of It and writes for Veep, has written a light thriller set in 1980s Jersey. Dire Straits fans stand by…