When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

When you're putting together a story, sometimes you just have to skip over the boring bits.

The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.

Holmes, I'm a 24 year old prude.

Men do, I've found, accept the most errant nonsense from a well dressed woman

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.