I Think The Negative Traits

Because I Write A Book A Year, I Always Want To Do One Other Project Every Year That's Stimulating In A Different Way. It Means You Can Be Working But Not Using Up Your Prose Juice, You Know?

To Have A Very Strong Opinion All The Time Is Corrosive To A Person's Intellect. It Becomes Your Default Position.

I Grew Up In London Under Thatcher And That Really Was Disgusting. A Feeding Frenzy.

Crime Is A Very Hard Genre To Feminise. If You Have A Female Protagonist She Is Going To Be Looking After Her Mum When She Gets Older; She Is Going To Be Worried About Her Brother And Sister; She Will Be Making A Living While Bringing Up Kids.

I'm Always Represented As A Bit Of A Class Warrior - A Bit Down With Men And Down With Middle-class People. Whereas I'm Actually Very Fond Of Men And Am Middle-class. I Even Went To Boarding School In Perthshire.