My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have known for a very long time.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there.

A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.