Cathy Rentzenbrink

I love those literary puzzle books.

The John Sutherland ones.

Was he a murderer?

All that sort of stuff.

I'm endlessly obsessed by those.

I did actually, in my last book, introduce a couple of slight...

things just hoping someone might notice little inconsistencies little things that I popped in there because I think that Bayard talks about phantom books I love fictional books I love fictional novels one of my favorite novels is called the 13th tale by Diane Satterfield which has this whole there's an author who's written books there's a missing story I love all of that the whole thing about I like books about books and books about writing it's

You know... See, if William Blake was on Twitter, that would give him a bad afternoon.

Because I think what I slightly wanted to read... What a Twitter account that would be.

What I wanted to read after this book is I would quite like to read this book rewritten in the age of social media, which gives the whole... So I have a very difficult relationship with social media and just had to stop it because it was sending me mad because I don't like reading people slagging off books.

I don't like people reading people slagging off books that they have not read.

LAUGHTER

Oh, this press release is annoying, so I'm going to be giving this book a miss.

Oh, I don't like that cover.

I read two pages of this when I was at Softplay with my three small sons.

And I'll save you all the trouble of reading it by telling you all it's crap.

That thing particularly aggravates me.

That is a real example.

I've disguised it by giving this person an extra son.

He's only got two sons.