Authors

I grew up reading Jim Corbett’s stories of Indian jungles and hunting, and my mother’s copy of The Jungle Book compilation, of which Riki Tiki Tawi was my favourite story, with Tomaai of the Elephants as a close second. I’m a pretty omnivorous reader, as deeply in awe of China Mieville’s weird fiction and Mike Carey’s Lucifer (graphic novel) series as with Ian Buruma’s exceptional, Murder in Amsterdam, or George Orwell’s 1984. I wish I had read more, but I am too easily distracted by spicy stuff, like Isaac Asimov’s Black Widower’s Club detective fiction series, so unfortunately the classics may have passed me by.

Motorbikes—I lust after the Moto Guzzi Grizo which I shall never own, hunting rifles such as the Remington 770 .30-06 Springfield, and anything by Holland & Holland which I associate with my grandfathers (both of whom I was in awe of), chocolates, woodworking, mountains and cycling.