When people ask me where I get my ideas from, at first I find it difficult to say. When I was young my mum told us all sorts of make believe stories. As a child I read Tolkein and C S Lewis. I then got on to Buchan and Greene. Then there was no stopping me and I got into Azimov. We all move on as I did, and I read all sorts or amazing stories like The Grapes of Wrath, Roots, Trinity, Shogun and any other interesting looking fat book that I could find.

More recently I've been enjoying Pulman, Tracy Chevalier and Joanna Harris.Naturally the Potter series added to my reading pleasure and nobody should let Discworld pass un-noticed.