Francis Spufford

which, again, does London well, does work well, and does just that very difficult thing, the kind of the texture of a mind really well.

But that sounds as if I'm trying to deny people the same pleasure again.

Actually, I don't know how to repeat myself.

I've always written books that are very different from my previous book, and now I seem to be a novelist.

I'm writing novels that are very different from my previous novel.

I tend to try and put the whole of what I know I'm fascinated by into each one, and then I'm done.

So I'll go somewhere completely different again for the next one.

But there are lots of other good

good novels with a mystery set in the 18th century so anybody who read golden hill and thinks i'd rather be be having a kind of bit of high stakes alarm and menace in in the 18th century romp romp is the word um yeah you can you can go and read a book like blood and sugar

who also presently escapes me, but if you Google Blood and Sugar, you'll find it.

Or The Devil in the Marshall Sea, which is by a different person whose name escapes me, which is an excellent London-based 18th century crime novel.

So I can recommend people who aren't me who are doing things more like Golden Hill, but I'm afraid I'm never going back there.

You're welcome.