In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.