Peter Mayle

I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and this gave me a taste for hot weather.

There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.

There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody.

I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!