Best books… Roy Foster The emeritus professor of ...

I’ve made a lot of films about young people trying to figure out what the hell they’re doing in the world. Although I’m still wondering that myself. It’s so interesting looking back – I realised from

“There must have been a conspiracy,” says the novelist William Boyd, after describing John F Kennedy’s assassination to me. He cites the usual clues—the film shot by Abraham Zapruder, the entry wounds

Judy Blume’s Superfudge was in our tiny school library, and I wolfed it down at the age of eight. From then, I was side-by-side with all of Judy’s kids, right the way up to 17-year-old Katherine in Fo

As a child, I loved the Milly-Molly-Mandy books written by Joyce Lankester Brisley and of course I wanted to be that little girl in her perfect pink and white striped dress! I think what appealed to m

Blinding: The Left Wing Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu, trans. by ...