I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there.

I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.

I have a nice little idea from some people I met there who are now in their seventies, and I want to tell their story about the revolution through the eyes of musicians, in fact. The '59 Revolution. And what has happened to them since. It's very much a Cuban story. They haven't fared too well.

One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.

A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?

I'll always love Paraguay. It's this most exotic place configured out of the imagination, the whole country.Paraguay will always be a special place in my heart. I go back a long way. I first arrived as a refugee in 1982 from the Falklands War. So it was a safe haven then, and it has become something exotic since then. I feel like I'd like the dust to settle a little bit before going back.

I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset.