7 questions again, this time courtesy of velvet_the_cat

1. Do you have any ideas about what you would like to write your next novel about?

I did, though I have lost some spark towards it! There are two starting points, The Avebury Ravens or the Bromptom Cemetary Time Machine. But I am just not sure...

2. Of all the places you have been to in the world, which is your favourite?

Yosemite National Park is the place I remember as making me happy every single day I was there - and I camped for a month in a car to stay there!

3. To date, what would you say your greatest achievement is?

Oh this is difficult! Getting my dear wee book published of course, and getting on telly, becoming an equity member, all these things I wanted to do as a child. But I think that perhaps the greatest thing I have achieved is some capacity for honesty with myself. There is so much that is ridiculous about me, and to some extend it should stay that way to keep me from hubris. But despite my faults, looking from the outside in, I have become a person I respect.

4. What art form is most likely to move you to tears (happy or sad)?

Another tough one. The play 'Warhorse' used so many art forms to put its message across that I cried for a week and have never forgotten it. Photography is the one that moves me to tears in general life.

5. What is your favourite season of the year?

Summer! Pile on the heat, the blue sky, the yellow light...the sea beckoning and flowers all lush and seductive, bees and butterflies everywhere! Summer is Heaven!

6. If you could pick any author - dead or alive - which one would you like to have dinner with?

Argh, I can't choose just one! If it was a quiet dinner for two, possibly C.S. Lewis, for his work has influenced my childhood profoundly. Then again, he might try to convert me...and because he's very persuasive, he might succeed! Rudyard Kipling, cos he's so interesting and got so many brilliant stories. Hafiz of Shiraz, cos he knows how to get drunk on poetry. For a dinner party, it'll be Chaucer or Wilde, preferably both, and we'd have to get the booze flowing, cos it will either be the best night ever or the worst!


7. Which is your favourite London Underground station?

Brilliant question! Charing X. Looks great as you approach it from Waterloo, fantastic views over the river on both sides, big screens in the station make it easy to see everything that's going on at a glance, and you get out into the West End quick quick!