Growing up in Zimbabwe was a great adventure, but I didn’t see it as such. I spent my entire childhood in Africa. I couldn’t have written The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency books, which are set in Botswana, without the affection that gave me.
The first book I owned as a child was called The Boys’ Book of Merchant Shipping. It was full of pictures of ships with their tonnage. It must have been the most boring book imaginable, but I loved it to pieces. I slept with it under my pillow. I studied law at Edinburgh University, and then got my first job at Queen’s University in Belfast. It was at the height of the Troubles: bombs were going off, you’d hear gunfire. There, I discovered Irish writers such as Brian Moore, who helped me understand the city.
If I’m working at full tilt, I’ll write 3,000 to 4,000 words in a day. It just comes to me. I break the rules: you’re only supposed to write one book a year or every two years. [This year, he has published six.] More
The first book I owned as a child was called The Boys’ Book of Merchant Shipping. It was full of pictures of ships with their tonnage. It must have been the most boring book imaginable, but I loved it to pieces. I slept with it under my pillow. I studied law at Edinburgh University, and then got my first job at Queen’s University in Belfast. It was at the height of the Troubles: bombs were going off, you’d hear gunfire. There, I discovered Irish writers such as Brian Moore, who helped me understand the city.
If I’m working at full tilt, I’ll write 3,000 to 4,000 words in a day. It just comes to me. I break the rules: you’re only supposed to write one book a year or every two years. [This year, he has published six.] More
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