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This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel speaks with British author Tessa Hadley. She's had almost as many short stories published in the New Yorker in the last ten years as her hero, Alice Munro. Her first novel, Accidents in the Home, was described by England's Guardian newspaper as fantastically subtle, absorbing and delightful. Now Tessa Hadley has written a novel called The London Train.

This week on Writers & Company: Eleanor Wachtel talks to Scotland's Irvine Welsh at the Luminato Festival in Toronto. It's been almost twenty years since his first novel Trainspotting made him a controversial bestseller. Now, he's written a prequel, called Skagboys.

This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel speaks with two idiosyncratic and wide-ranging movie makers from England: Mike Leigh - a man with a unique style whose latest film, Happy Go Lucky is already a hit - and one of Britain's best-loved actors, Michael Caine. Mike Leigh's latest film, Happy Go Lucky is in theatres now. And there's a new book, Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh , edited by Amy Raphael and published by Faber and Faber. Michael Caine's new movie is called Is There Anybody…