12/04
"Byron certainly lived like a rock star. He had a coach with a wine cabinet, he attracted groupies and sold thousands of copies of his poems"...
31/03
A coup d'etat in Nigeria, the Hong Kong handover and a trip to global happiness capital Bhutan... ...
17/03
"I only take on work I have total confidence in and you just want to connect with the editors who feel the same." ...
05/03
"I write out lists of everything that happens in a book before I start writing. The next book I'm working on has 150 pages of just bulleted lists"...
14/02
‘I think women have always felt that war is not heroic, so to that extent I don’t think it’s a modern feeling.’ ...
11/02
The master story-teller, Nottingham Trent lecturer and novelist has broadened the landscape of dreams with his latest book 
05/02
"Musicolepsy is a medical condition, whereby epileptic fits can sometimes be triggered by auditory – and specifically musical – stimuli."...
12/01
"It was bizarre, going from almost total anonymity as a writer to coming home from the Booker Prize party" ...
15/12
Lord Byron - mad, bad and dangerous to know. But what about the writer who's retraced Byron's infamous Grand Tour? ...
