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L If they’re ever looking to recruit spies, forget handsome, fit, blue-eyed Bonds. Forget gym-buffed Daniel, impossibly good-looking Tom and danger magnet Matt. Look instead for a middle-aged woman in

Emma is lonely and missing her old life – could the kindness of a new neighbour help her embrace a fresh start?

Life has a bad habit of mirroring art. Sometimes, this can be in a deeply sad way. A while after I wrote about the assumption of guilt in a traumatised young woman with poor social skills, I watched a

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o

Set on a luxury superyacht, one-off thriller The Woman in Cabin 10 stars Keira Knightley as journalist Lo Blacklock, who witnesses a passenger being thrown overboard during the night. When she tries t