James Islington

reaching a wide audience, not just in Australia, but overseas as well.

Yeah, and it's like all of my editors in America, my agents in America, but we chat on WhatsApp, we communicate by email.

It's all very easy.

I'd love to be able to sit down with them face-to-face now and then, but it still works quite well.

No, I'm going to be doing that this year, probably around September.

I mean, I think the key thing that I always want people to take away is that they enjoy it.

Like as much as...

I hope that some of these themes of power and

class divide and all that sort of stuff.

I hope that resonates and I hope that gets people thinking about these sort of things.

But at the end of the day, you're still writing a piece of entertainment and you don't want to... I'm not necessarily a fan when books come across as preachy.

If that's the purpose of their being, I'm always very much a, this has to be entertaining first.

So as long as people find it entertaining, I'm very happy.

Absolutely.

It's probably Name of the Wind.

Great choice.

Yeah, I love that.

I love that book.

I actually reread it recently just with a bit of trepidation because I hadn't read it for a while, but it held up beautifully.

That was the book that and Mistborn were the two books that after my 20s basically where I hadn't read a lot, those were the two books that got me back into reading.