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The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life asking. It was an extraordinary moment.

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I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you get a sense of the history.

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I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

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I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

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I like to do the research of history and the creativity of writing fiction. I am creating this thing which I think is twice as difficult as writing either history or fiction.

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I like writing historical fiction.

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At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.

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The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.

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When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.

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If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: January 9th, 1954

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