Chris MacDonald

Readers, hello.

I'm a novelist, playwright, screenwriter and actor. I live in Margate with my wife, two children and a co-dependent cockapoo.

My new book is called The Actor and I'm very proud of it. It's gripping, psychologically complex and draws on my time at drama school and has the most exciting Oscars scene since, well probably only a couple of years ago because Will Smith, WILL SMITH, hit Chris Rock in the face. Then there was the Moonlight thing a couple of years before. The Oscars really is a dumpster fire. Love it.

Thank you in advance for reading if you do. And if you don't, I hope you're enjoying whatever you're consuming these days.

These are my all time favourites:

Book - 1984, Remains of the Day

Film - Chinatown, Step Brothers

TV - Succession, Arrested Development

Album - Hunky Dory

Play - The Seagull

Computer game: Football Manager (I know. Awful.)

Ice-cream - rum-raisin

Pasta shape - Penne