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My mother was very proud of being Irish and being a Gunnigan in a straightforward way.

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I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

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I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.

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One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance.

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There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem to me to belong in a more humanistic framework.

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I have a horror of going down dead ends, which you can easily do with a novel, spending months on it and then realising that it's all wrong. It's demoralising, because you don't get the time back.

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Once you learn to 'speak' money - which is what I felt I did through the research that led me to write 'Whoops!' - you start to see it at work all around you. It's like a language, a code written on the surface of things; it's in flow all around us, all the time.

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A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us.

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I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

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I'm an omniviorous reader, but I don't read what could overlap with my own work. It's like tuning a radio frequency - it's much harder to pick up if there's something else there.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: February 25th, 1962

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