Giles Foden

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.