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

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys.

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.