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 are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.

Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.

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

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