It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments.

I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.