Listen to me and the brilliant Louise Candlish discuss neighbours and in-laws from hell on the latest Book Off podcast. We also debated the merits of two very controversial novels. I’d tell you what I chose but I have to return some videotapes. . .

“Bestselling crime writers Louise Candlish and Mark Edwards talk about their latest books as well as living with bad neighbours and how certain characters can inspire a whole novel. They go head to head in the Book Off, putting Tom Wolfe’s ‘I Am Charlotte Simmons’ up against Brett Easton Ellis’s ‘American Psycho’ . . . but who will win!?  

Just search ‘book off’ on Apple podcasts or Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.