To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.