When I Vacate This Sack Of Old

I Am A Closet Birdwatcher. I Can Identify Southern African Species, But It Irks Me I Can Barely Tell A Jay From A Blackbird In The U.k.

I Don't Want Children. Why Should I Let Some Strange Little Monster Into My Life To Destroy What To Me Is A Perfect Set-up?

Beware Of Your Most Implacable Enemy-yourself.

I Read All Of Rider Haggard's Books. For Me He Had The Romance Of Africa With A Little Bit Of Mysticism. I'm Delighted To Be Looked On As His Heir And Be Categorised As An Adventure Novelist Because That's Exactly What I Am.

Every Time One Of My Books Sells A Million Copies In Paperback, Pan Macmillan Gives Me A Gold Statuette Of Pan. I Have About 20 Of Them.