Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

One cannot always marry the person one loves.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves of Waterstone’s or Tesco or online at Amazon; the second group are yet to have physical evidence of the hours, weeks, years spent fashioning words into their patterns. You are already a writer.