Nabokov on coincidence

Since it’s the birthday of Vladimir Nabokov, here’s a little quote from this great writer.  “A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish – but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I…

Who is it ‘for’?

This post first appeared on Waterstones.com  I’ve written about thirty books, of which all but one, A Love Like Blood, is ‘for children’. Or so I’m told, and so I am led to believe by the fact that it’s the imprint of a children’s publisher that appears on the spine of all of them, apart…