In conversation with heidi perks

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

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

The American thriller author talks to Zoe West about heroes, villains and writing for fun

What childhood book sparked your love of reading? One that really stands out for me is Winnie-the-Pooh. I was given a hardback copy on my seventh birthday, and I still treasure it. The maps in the fro

Look out for a future edition of heat edited by the bestselling author – if Katie Holloway manages to persuade him

Best-selling author and House of Games presenter Richard Osman reveals how his mother dealt with grief, how he manages to write so much with a debilitating eye condition and why his latest Thursday Murder Club mystery made his wife cry