Danny Boyle

Brought up in Lancashire, the son of Irish Catholic immigrants, Danny Boyle made his name as a film director with Shallow Grave and Trainspotting in the 1990s. Told through interviews, this book explores each of his major projects from the groundbreaking early films to the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire and the crowning achievement of the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games.

Amy Raphael was born in London in 1967. She has worked on The Face, NME, Elle and Esquire and now freelances for the Guardian, Observer and Daily Telegraph. Her first book, Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock, was published by Virago in 1995. She conducted the conversations and edited Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh, which was published in 2008. She has also contributed to the The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock and Perfect Pitch, a series of books about football.