Tell us a bit about your new version of Hands of the Ripper. How similar is it to the Hammer film of the same name?
GA: The beats are the same but there are massive changes.
Hammer Books were interested in setting a number of their novelisations in the present day and they asked how I’d feel about attempting that with Hands of the Ripper. I said, “Fine, though you do realise that means we’ll lose Jack the Ripper… does that matter?”
