ACHUKA Authorfile #38
Kevin Crossley Holland
ACHUKA Authorfile #38
Kevin Crossley Holland
 My
hair colour: |
Grey | |
| My
eye colour: |
Brown | |
| My
shoe size: |
9 and a half | |
| My
star sign: |
Aquarius | |
| My
favourite book when child: |
Our Island Story | |
|
Books that inspired me to become a writer: |
The poems of Yeats | |
| My
ideal reading position: |
In a deckchair, wearing a panama, far away from a telephone | |
| My
usual means of marking a place in a book: |
A scrap of serviette | |
| My
favourite time of year: |
St Luke's Summer: mid-October | |
| My
favourite time of day: |
The blue hour: dusk | |
| My
best time for working: |
Morning | |
| The
first piece of work I was paid for was: |
A translation of 13 riddles broadcast on the Home Service in a programme produced by George MacBeth, also published in The Listener and later set to music by Sir Arthur Bliss. | |
| My
favourite TV show: |
One that all the family watches together - Frasier | |
| My
favourite song: |
Anything by Bob Dylan | |
| The
creature comfort I would most unwillingly relinquish: |
Malt whisky | |
| My
favourite sweet food: |
Chocolate, good and bad, the blacker the better | |
| My
favourite savory food: |
All curries | |
| My
typical bedtime is: |
One minute to 12 | |
| My
favourite year of childhood: |
13 | |
| The
tidiest place in my home is: |
Study | |
| The
untidiest place in my home is: |
None | |
| The
working tool I would least like to do without: |
My Cross fountain pen | |