Hardest scene?

Q. What was your hardest scene to write?

A. From a forthcoming novel: The Battle of Orgreave considered as a descent into Hell after Botticelli…

Read the whole interview here!

It was a great pleasure (virtually, at least) to visit the Tregolls Lodge Book Club in Truro, Cornwall, a few months back. Book groups and book clubs are important to their members, to authors, and to the book industry more widely. It’s always a great pleasure to hear that a book club has been reading one of my novels, and even sometimes to get feedback from them, or – more rarely – an invitation to visit. This one had been in the diary for a while, so it was great to finally meet. Thanks all for your hospitality and great chat! Howard and Jeannie who run the book club also publish a monthly newsletter compilation of interviews with visiting authors, which since we’ve been in touch I have read with interest (and always learn something from other writers). Then it was my turn.

This interview was published in Tregolls 1 October newsletter last year. I’ve been meaning to share it… The interview was actually done the year before that in June ’23, when we were first in contact, but most of the answers still hold – except very sadly my answer to the question about mascot/avatar/spirit animal): beloved Popsy is no longer with us.