Alistair Owen je autorem řady vlivných děl zaměřených na řemeslo psaní a filmařství. Jeho rozhovory s významnými tvůrci odhalují hluboké vhledy do tvůrčího procesu a filmové adaptace. Owen také prozkoumává vztah mezi příběhem a postavou v britské scenáristice a nedávno debutoval svým prvním románem. Jeho práce se vyznačuje bystrým analytickým pohledem na umění vyprávění.
Producers and audiences are hungrier than ever for stories, and a lot of those stories begin life as a book - but how exactly do you transfer a story from the page to the screen? Alistair Owen puts all key questions to some of the top names in screenwriting, including Hossein Amini (Drive), Jeremy Brock (The Last King of Scotland), Moira Buffini (Jane Eyre), Lucinda Coxon (The Danish Girl), Nick Hornby (An Education), and more.
'One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists' Sunday TimesIn this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talks to William Boyd about his works and the life which has inspired them.The conversations which emerge are a deep-dive into film, art, theatre, literature and the life of a writer. This is one of Britain's most beloved authors on what it is to write in a variety of forms.'William Boyd has probably written more classic books than any of his contemporaries' Daily Telegraph'Arguably one of Britain's finest living writers' Sunday Express