What are you most looking forward to at the 2016 Festival? Always a pleasure to meet other writers and readers. When did you realise you wanted to be a writer? I never didn’t want to be a writer. I blame my parents giving me Wind In The Willows when I was four. What book do you find yourself re-reading most often? Regrettably, my own, for proofreading and rewrites. If you weren’t a writer, what would you be? Lazy. And finally, we have a number of aspiring writers attending the Festival. What one piece of advice would you give them? Read, write, revise, relentlessly.