A flight attendant’s atmospheric memoir about forbidden love; the beguiling tale of a young fogey’s search for his parents; and food writer Clare Finney’s life in recipes
The bestselling author on how to avoid reader indifference, the advantage of writing historical stories and why she returns to Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates again and again
When Charlie Higson published a new Bond novel last year, online critics accused him of turning 007 into a ‘woke, libtard snowflake’ ... But he has always been a complicated character, argues the author