To Read Is Human, To

I Travel Abroad Constantly On Book Promotion And Research, And The Internet Is Invaluable To Me For Accessing U.k. News In Places Such As America, Which Most Of The Time Hasn't Heard Of England.

Stalin Was Experimenting With Telepathy In The 1930's. Winston Churchill Had A Paranormal Office, Trying To Get People To Travel Out Of Their Bodies And See Behind Enemy Lines In The Second World War. And The Pentagon... The X-files Is Based On A Real Department In The Pentagon, That's Still There Now. Pretty Much Every Government, Probably As Far Back In Time As We Can Go, Has One. And The Police Will Quite Often - And When I Say Often, I Mean Often - They Will Go To Mediums If All Else Fails In The Enquiry.

My Day Starts With Radio 4's Today Live Or 'listen Again' Wherever I Am In The World, Thanks To Digital Radio - I Even Have An App On My Iphone That Receives It.

Every Novel Starts With A Theme, And I Am Constantly Looking For Big Ideas.

Most Of Us Have One Big Idea At Some Point In Our Lives. That Eureka! Moment. It Comes To Us All In Different Ways, Often By Chance Of Serendipity.