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I spend a lot of time in my office at home [in Oxfordshire]. I can see into a garden which is full of lupins, roses and foxgloves.
What are you currently reading?
Ben Macintyre's 'Double Cross' [about the D-Day spies]... the research is top-rate, and the eccentric courage of the people involved is utterly remarkable.
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Nevil Shute. They're stories that make my eyes a bit wet... they're beautifully written.
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It's this office, around 15 by 15 feet, with the walls lined with bookcases.
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One of those johnnies who sends agents off in the early Le Carré stories but stays on the safe side of the border.
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There are many of them. They go round a bend... south of the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford. It's called the final turn – where the British Legion and former servicemen's associations gather, whenever there's a repatriation.
Gerald Seymour's new novel is 'The Outsiders' (Hodder & Stoughton).
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