Occupation: Novelist Birth: 1968
'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted..
Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp.
Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all..
The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me..
Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down..
Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of co….