What I Like About Writing

I'm Not A Prophet I Can Only Use Historical Reality To Come To A View Of The Future, And My View Is That Africa Will Return To Being African And Not European. The Advent Of Colonialism Was Foreign To The Country Itself, But It Will Return To What It Was Before The Europeans Arrived.

People Don't Really Know Themselves Until They're 30. Like Most People Nowadays, I Went To University, Got A Degree And Wandered For A Bit. I Trained To Be A Chartered Accountant, Which I Didn't Much Enjoy, And It Was Only Slowly That The Idea Of Becoming A Creative Writer Gelled.

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.

Let It Simply Be Said That We Know More About The Details Of The Hours Immediately Before And The Actual Death Of Jesus, In And Near Jerusalem, Than We Know About The Death Of Any Other One Man In All The Ancient World.

My First Novel Was Rejected By Some Of The Most Eminent Publishers In The World. Starting Again Was A Real Wrench.