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Martin Walker
Interviewed 30 November 2013
Ten words to sum up your working life to date ...
Writing, writing, writing: essays, then news articles, books, now novels.
Nine things you can see from where you're sitting ...
My basset hound
Family photos
My tennis racquet
One of my wife’s paintings
Bottle of my own home-made vin de noix
I-phone
Ripe tomatoes in my vegetable garden
Chess board
Two pears just plucked from tree.
Eight minutes to prepare a meal. What's it going to be ?
Omelette aux truffes with petit pois, fresh baguette and a bottle of Chateau de Tiregand, 2005.
Seven people you'd like to go for a drink with ...
A) Dead
Trotsky
Edward Gibbon
Kaiser Bill
Shelley
Virgil
Vasari
Horatio Nelson.
B) Alive
Hilary Mantel
Bob Dylan
Ian Rankin
Jancis Robinson
Paul Simon
John Le Carre
Helen Mirren
Six things you can't live without ...
Wine
My dog
Books
My Citroen deux chevaux
Skiing
My wife’s cheese soufflé
Five favourite words ...
Mellifluous
Contemplation
Twilight
Susurration
Munificence
Four places you'd run away to ...
Isle of Mull
Capetown
Maui
Domme-en-Perigord
Three books you've bought recently ...
Philip Kerr, A Man Without Breath.
Julian Jackson; France, The Dark Years, 1940-1944.
Antony Beevor; The Second World War.
Two things that make you rant ...
Confusing discrete and discreet.
Ryanair’s endless extra charges.
One thing you'd tell your teenage self ...
Life is short, the world is big; see as much of it as you can.