Sarah Hall

I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard.

It's taken me 15 years to feel I might be able to write and publish short stories, and for the assiduous checks of the industry to allow some through.

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.