FICTION

Mark Billingham with Julia Wheeler

With his exceptional talent for gripping storytelling, Mark Billingham has become a household name in British crime fiction. His interview with journalist and broadcaster Julia Wheeler unpacks his varied career, from stand-up comedy to TV acting, screenwriting to book writing. Mark’s latest novel, Cry Baby, a prequel to his Sunday Times bestseller Sleepyhead, has had its own lockdown setback: he tells us how the epilogue to the book had to be changed, as it was initially set in a sunnily pandemic-free 2020…