Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.