From Chaucer, Shakespeare and Dickens to Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro and Bernardine Evaristo, London has long been home to ...

SMITH: Gosh - regret (laughter). MARTIN: Yeah. SMITH: I think that's the one I know very well, yeah. I think people's lives are so profoundly shot through with regret. And you don't - they don't talk ...

In more than a dozen books, he created characters who were obsessed with maps, urban walking, sexual fetishes and Volkswagen ...