Andrew O’Hagan: ‘The worst thing anyone’s said to me? That I was the spitting image of David Cameron’

The author on an encounter with the CIA, an embarrassing moment in church, and longing to hold hands with David Attenborough Born in Glasgow, Andrew O’Hagan, 58, studied at the University of Strathclyde. In 1995, he published The Missing, a work of nonfiction. His debut novel, Our Fathers, was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1999; Be Near Me and The Illuminations were longlisted in 2006 and 2015. His recent novels are Caledonian Road and Mayflies. The latter was adapted for BBC television...

By Rosanna Greenstreet