My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.

The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.

Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.

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