David Gaunt

I don't want to come out of my comfort zone, I'm afraid.

I mean, certainly Christos' work would fit that bill.

Probably everything he's written, but we know he needs to be read, he deserves to be read, he ought to be read.

So it's difficult because you can lead horses.

But, yeah, and of course it's almost always in fiction because people have this perception built up over a long period of centuries that the novel form has been around that you shouldn't muck around with it.

I think in a lot of cases it's a question of relaxing into the rhythm of the prose, and if you can't have the time or the luxury of concentrated periods for that, then you just lose.

I mean, there are books that you simply can't read by going to bed and saying, I've got half an hour before...

It falls on the floor.

Yeah, but that might be the very reason why they want it to be.

Do people bring a book back?

That's why they put the stickers on.

Yes, they do.

You cover the whole spectrum of human activity in a retail environment.

So people do with the… Well, I didn't like it.

I didn't like it.

It wasn't what I expected.

The shoes didn't fit.

Wow.

And you do what you do.

They ought to be able to, but people have their ways.