What is the secret of Donna Tartt's modern masterpiece The Secret History? Not the ‘secret’ in the title. Not even the secrets in the plot.

Ottillee Bottomly might be a fictional heroine, but I always knew how this comically cross schoolgirl was going to react.

Meeting a wolf isn't easy in England. You’re almost stepping over them in Scandinavia but in the UK, they're as rare as – well, wolves