It’s all just storytelling, right? Whether you’re a dramatist, a writer for telly, or a novelist. Well, no. It turns out that writing for the screen and writing for the bookshelf are markedly different.

Mario Theodorou, a Londoner of Greek heritage who ordinarily writes screen plays, has just written Felix Grey and the Descendant, a pacey thriller set in Edwardian society. He tells Patrick Galbraith about how the novel form set him free. Characters, he explains, are usually far more developed in books than they are on the screen and their interior world can be revealed to a far greater extent. They can also afford to be more experimental.

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