Our Interviews

As a nurse and midwife in the 60s, I loved talking to patients so when I started doing interviews for hopsital radio in the 80s and 90s and now 2007 for the website, I found I was able to use those skills. Some of the spoken interviews will be a blast from the past like Ian Rankin 1992 and Douglas Adams 1992 as well as our current ones from the past year.

RandomI hope I'll be able to bring some well known names for you to listen to and find out how these authors, right at the very beginning of their careers were developing their book characters. For instance I met Ian Rankin as a 25 year old in the 90s when he was just beginning his Rebus stories, and in 2006 I was able to do a catchup with him and could see how Rebus had developed over the years.

I'll also be interviewing up and coming new authors , CJ Lines, Scott Lynch, Alis Hawkins, Alison Goodman and LC Tyler being just a few, and as many well known ones as possible such as Adele Parks, Jilly Cooper, Raymond E. Feist and Alison Weir!

Keep a look out for our latest spoken and written interviews.

Vicky

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Anita Mason 2008 on 'The Right Hand of the Sun'

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J: In your Acknowledgements, you mention ‘intractable difficulties' associated with the writing of this novel. Could you say what these were, and how you managed to surmount them?

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Carol Drinkwater 2008 on 'The Olive Tree'

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On Wednesday 15th October 2008 I met up with a very cold Carol Drinkwater to chat with her about 'The Olive Tree', her latest book about her journey to not only find the original source of the olive tree but to find the oldest living one.

She arrived in understated elegance but having just flown in from a very warm South of France she was just a tad cold in London of 15C. When she talked about her olive tree adventure it was obvious just how passionate she was about it and how to grow it with tender loving care - organically.

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Dick O'Donovan 2008 on Autism and the Disabilities Trust

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I first met Dick O'Donovan in March 2000 when David (my husband) and I were looking for an autsim specific residential home for our oldest daughter Naomi, who was in the process at that time of being diagnosed with being on the autistic spectrum. At that time he was manager of Hollyrood the Disabilities Trust's flagship autism specific residential home.

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Derek Paravicini Autistc Savant Jazz Pianist

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Derek Paravicini is an extraordinay young adult because not only is he partially blind but he is an adult with autism with a rare talent in music - a modern day savant. Enjoy this amazing video curtesy of YouTube and the makers of this video.

Derek now lives in a residential home run by the RNIB.

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Lois Pryce 2008 on 'Red Tape and White Knuckles'

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Lois Price is one of the leading female biker travellers who writes really great books about her journeys. Debbie who reviewed Red Tape and White Knuckles thoroughly enjoyed it and has done the questions.

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D. What is your motivation for doing these trips on your bike?

LP: Curiosity and adventure! To see the world and to put myself in situation that I would not encounter otherwise, and to learn about the world.

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