Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.