Born in Belfast, Lucy Caldwell is the award-winning author of four novels (most recently These Days), several stage plays and radio dramas, and three collections of short stories. Her latest, Openings, is published by Faber on May 16.
It’s been been described as one of the most powerful and significant musical compositions of the 20th century, and Different Trains – the three-movement piece for string quartet and tape written by Steve Reich – won a Grammy in 1990 for Best Contemporary Composition.
It’s hard to believe that this is the 21st book in John Connolly’s hugely successful Charlie Parker series. The books place the hard-boiled private detective genre in a world where forces of the supernatural secretly exist.
Is The Idea of You about Harry Styles? Yes and no. Robinne Lee, the New York actress-turned-author who wrote the 2017 novel, says Mr Styles was one of several inspirations for the fictional, globe-trotting pop star at the centre of her headline-grabbing best-seller. Benedict Cumberbatch, would you believe, was another. So was Simon Le Bon (fair enough) and Prince Harry (make of that what you will).