Alistair Owen is the author of Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson (one of David Hare's Books of the Year in the Guardian), Story and Character: Interviews with British Screenwriters, Hampton on Hampton (one of Craig Raine's Books of the Year in the Observer), The Art of Screen Adaptation: Top Writers Reveal Their Craft and The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd. He has written original and adapted screenplays and stage plays; contributed interviews and reviews to Creative Screenwriting and the Independent on Sunday; and his first novel, The Vetting Officer, is available on Kindle. He has also chaired Q&A events at venues and festivals across the UK, and his platform with Christopher Hampton in the Lyttelton Theatre to celebrate Faber's 75th anniversary was published in the anthology Faber Playwrights at the National Theatre.