I am certainly very pro-Europe.

I am certainly very pro-Europe.

If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody.

Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.

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 tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.

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.