All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.

I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am.

I put my soul into every book I write.

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.