The Woman in Cabin 10, in which Keira Knightley stars as a Guardian journalist (Report, 10 October), was co-scripted by Joe Shrapnel, grandson of Norman Shrapnel, the legendary Guardian reporter, parliamentary sketch writer and theatre critic. When Norman died in 2004, my father, WL Webb, who as the paper’s literary editor regularly employed Shrapnel as a fiction reviewer, described how his “ironic edge and sharp eye for social detail made him the much-imitated master of a whole generation of Guardian writers”.
Kate Webb
London

The government plans to require migrants coming to the UK to learn English to an A-level standard (Politics live with Andrew Sparrow, 14 October). How many current UK residents can demonstrate this level?
Liz Thompson
Oxford

Jean Holmes says she was given three copies of Jilly Cooper’s How to Stay Married (Letters, 10 October). I wonder if they were secondhand.
Pete Bibby
Sheffield

I remember lending my sister Riders by Jilly Cooper. She became so engrossed that she almost failed to collect her son from nursery. When I passed the book on to Mum, my sister said she would never be able to look her in the eye again.
Penny Snook
Collingham, Nottinghamshire

What next for Venezuela: 1,000% tariffs or a Riviera-style resort (Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize, 10 October)?
Jude Carr
London