Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.