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

i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me

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

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.