I am a Magpie for 'interesting facts' and I like to incorporate these as much as possible into my work. Whilst I am NO educationalist I feel that readers like to know odd bits and pieces-even if I sometimes write satirical pieces,(New shoes) there is always a grain of truth in the merciless lampooning.

When I wrote the Spartacus Prophecy I was fascinated by how much I genuinely did not know about those times, having been led astray by Kirk Douglas and his merry men!

Hollywood will eventually kill history.