Hamish MacBain

Perhaps he was inspired by Alan Garner who, at 88, last year became the oldest ever person to be nominated for the Booker Prize. Maybe as “a life-long reader of thrillers” he thought, as most life-long readers of thrillers do at some point, that thrillers quite often seem formulaic and thus not that hard to knock out.

This is no masterpiece, but the pairing of these lesser-seen-these-days Nineties titans is a winner

Fool Me Once pushes all the right buttons to great effect

London becomes your playground during the Betwixmas period says Hamish MacBain, and now’s the time to take full advantage

The performer on why she turned her back on fame, getting 5am calls from Prince and her dream to put British soul music on the map

The Academy Awards are not rewarding the kind of films we’re actually talking about (even if we don’t like them)

The multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has made himself a guinea pig for pioneering longevity research. He talks to Hamish MacBain about how he escaped a life of depression to lead the way in biohacking

The fight scenes are visceral, in-your-face affairs that play out like ballets with endlessly gruesome deaths

Granny Takes A Trip, the epicentre of Swinging London, is being reinvented in unexpected ways — we go inside the new Hackney HQ

Hosted by ES Magazine’s deputy editor, Hamish MacBain.