![]() ![]() He took it as a personal mission to stop me playing football whenever possible and I think I partly thought if I became a famous writer I could get him back. It was my early dream was to be a famous footballer, but our school played rugby, and Mr Williams didn’t like me at all. Indirectly my sports master at school also had a big influence. ![]() I realised very young that I was mixture of the two and it turns out most people are – and that interested me much more. So many stories had a narrow view of the world and the characters were either bad, bad, bad or good, good, good. I think one of the reason I started writing my own imaginary adventures because I so admired how Richmal did it and her character William Brown – who is an anarchist, a lawbreaker, a danger and menace to society, and at the very same time he’s one of the most loveable characters I’d come across. Many people inspired me, all the authors I loved as a child, particular Richmal Crompton and her Just William stories. Is there any particular person who inspired you to start writing? That’s when I realised writing books was really what I wanted to do. A publisher asked me to turn the screenplay into a book so I thought I’d give it ago. I was a screenwriter for about 10 years before I wrote that book and it was first TV film that I wrote by an Australian TV company. It was a story called the Other Facts of Life. So, that was when you starting writing – but what was your first book? ![]()
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