You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.

I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

I've got a big, long list of stuff you're entitled to hate about my books.

As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.

If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and I like that. Secondly, they will not be about individuals; they will be about community. Thirdly, they're all about moralizing. Fourthly, the way they express themselves takes its tone from the oral tradition.