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.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.