William Boyd: ‘Novelists are like spies’
The writer on secrets, accidental spooks and putting his protagonist ‘in a pickle’ in new Gabriel Dax novel ‘The Predicament’
The writer on secrets, accidental spooks and putting his protagonist ‘in a pickle’ in new Gabriel Dax novel ‘The Predicament’

The US novelist probes the porous border between the real and the unreal in this thrilling hall of mirrors

The author of the prizewinning ‘Flesh’ on his ‘white space’ narrative, his outsider perspective — and the importance of taking…

Tales of a spooky Norfolk village, a shamanic Nigerian astrophysicist — plus the ethics of fiction as murderous revenge

Doctors, dairy farmers, failed novelists — how authors’ fictional selves take on an identity all their own, distinct from their…

Tales from the Ottoman Empire and 1930s Moscow, to the latest in the Slow Horses series

What novels about buying stuff reveal about us