| My hair colour: |
Brown |
| My eye colour: |
Blue |
| My shoe size: |
10 |
| My star sign: |
Aries |
| My favourite book when child: |
Old Peter’s Russian Tales – Arthur
Ransome |
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My favourite fictional character: |
Flay, in Gormenghast |
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Books that inspired me to become a writer: |
The Dark is Rising - Susan
Cooper
The Changes - Peter Dickinson
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway |
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My favourite author: |
Christopher
Priest (at the moment) |
| My ideal reading position: |
Recumbent |
| My usual means of marking a place in a book: |
Scrap of paper |
| My favourite time of year: |
Late summer |
| My favourite time of day: |
Morning |
| My best time for working: |
Morning |
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The first piece of writing I was paid for was: |
Floodland |
| My favourite TV show: |
Don’t think I have one.
Maybe University Challenge (known as universally challenged), or Time Team
(for the laughs...)
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| My favourite actor: |
Cary Grant at the moment,
just for 'North by North West' |
| My favourite song: |
'Sad Waters' – Nick Cave
and the Bad Seeds |
| The creaure comfort I would most unwillingly relinquish: |
Bath |
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My favourite sweet food: |
Very dark chocolate |
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My favourite savory food: |
Pizza |
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My typical bedtime is: |
10 o'clock |
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My favourite year of childhood: |
1976 |
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My mousemat design: |
Don’t have one – I’ve
got an optical mouse that works on anything. Almost.
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The tidiest place in my home is: |
The bedroom |
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The untidiest place in my home is: |
My study |
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The working tool I would least like to do without: |
My lovely shiny new flat-screen
imac! |
