Living in France means I see the UK in snapshots. There is something quite nice about being in exile and the things you remember about places tend to…

- Jonathan Trigell

I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel but I know what the ending w…

- Jonathan Trigell

We have this sense that there's something bigger than us, above and beyond. If you take away the idea of God, you need to replace it with a shared mo…

- Jonathan Trigell

When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes. I'm very rhythm consc…

- Jonathan Trigell

I come from a privileged background but I worked a lot of winter seasons in the Alps and I've done lots of mundane summer jobs back in Britain where …

- Jonathan Trigell

I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first character who came to me: I envisa…

- Jonathan Trigell

What I imagined doesn't require anti-gravity beams or anything too spectacular, just advances in analysing different genes, finding out what they can…

- Jonathan Trigell

I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology …

- Jonathan Trigell

At the moment we seem to be heading in the opposite direction. However you dress it up, it's pretty obvious who is being affected by the government's…

- Jonathan Trigell