Author Interview with Shona Maclean and International Book ...

As well as fiction, I loved history books â€" My Dad seemed to instinctively know what I would like and now and again would give me a children's history book as a present, and I think that had a big influence on the path I took later in life. .... him to the story he just says whatever he feels like without me being aware of having thought of it first. I think he is probably an amalgam of my late father and his friends and customers from the public bar he ran in the hotel. ...