Actor-turned-writer Hanako Footman has said that writing her debut novel, now out in paperback, was “a way to make peace with being half-Japanese and half-British, collecting all the parts of myself and putting them back together”. Identity is at the hear…

Jimmie works in a London call centre, helping holiday makers with the many different problems they present him with (including a woman who wants to attend a romantic spa break on her own, and another who says that her room is too orange). When not engagin…

In her celebrated debut, journalist Lisa Taddeo spent eight years immersing herself in the lives of three women: Maggie, who’s dealing with the aftermath of an alleged relationship with her high school teacher; Lina, who has an affair after years of her h…