Paula Hawkins, thriller writer: ‘I had to make a go of it… or give it up and get a new career’

The author of The Girl on the Train on playing voyeur from carriage windows, domestic violence, and breaking Dan Brown’s bestseller chart record

The Revenant trailer – watch Leonardo DiCaprio in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s snowbound western

The first trailer has arrived for the Mexican director’s follow-up to Birdman: a hirsute Leo DiCaprio looking very much at bay in this western

The Girl on the Train film to be set in US not UK

Location of DreamWorks’ adaptation of bestselling novel to be shifted to upstate New York, according to author Paula Hawkins

The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton review – it will send shivers down your spine

A woman and her daughter are plunged into an Arctic hell in this stylish chiller by the author of the bestselling Sister

Best holiday reads 2015

Authors, critics and philosophers tell us which books they will be reading on the beach

Plans for James Bond musical shot down by rights’ holders

Danjaq and studio MGM reveal in a joint Facebook post on the official 007 page that they have not licensed rights for an all-singing, all-dancing take on the suave British super-spy

The end of the pseudonym: why I’m killing off thriller writer Sam Bourne

For the past 10 years, Guardian journalist Jonathan Freedland has used the alter ego to publish a series of hit novels, so why is his sixth story appearing under his own name?

Jurassic Park author’s novel Micro set for DreamWorks adaptation

Michael Crichton’s book about miniaturised students stuck in a rainforest to be made into a movie, with DreamWorks’ co-founder Steven Spielberg’s approval

Lamentation by CJ Sansom review – a hunt for heretics in the sixth Shardlake book

As Henry VIII falls gravely ill, a bitter political power struggle unfolds

Finders Keepers – Stephen King’s gripping sequel to Mr Mercedes

A deranged fan’s obsession with a novelist has serious consequences in Stephen King’s compelling tale in the Bill Hodges series

Christopher Lee: an actor of muscular intelligence with a staggering career

From his electrifying roles as Count Dracula, to his venerable turns in Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, Christopher Lee possessed a rare grace and charm

June’s Reading group: The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

For the next month, as he turns 60, we’ll be investigating one of literature’s best loved psychopaths

Pleasantville review – Attica Locke’s dazzlingly good third novel

The Black Water Rising writer returns with a vivid tale of a dirty mayoral race and a killer on the loose

Don’t look now: Don’t Look Now is getting remade

The producers of Liam Neeson thriller Non-Stop are developing an updated version of the classic supernatural horror film

Orient review – death follows a drifter in Christopher Bollen’s classy thriller

A tight-knit Long Island community under siege is the setting for an intelligent page-turner