John Boyne: ‘In my fantasy final week, I’m 93, have published my memoirs and recounting seven decades of scandals before retiring for pints’

John Boyne: ‘In my fantasy final week, I’m 93, have published my memoirs and recounting seven decades of scandals before retiring for pints’

When I published my debut novel in 2000, literary festivals were pretty thin on the ground. In fact, I didn’t participate in any until my third book, Crippen, was published, when I read from it at the Harrogate Festival, in the same hotel where Agatha Christie hid during her mysterious 1926 disappearance.