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As a new student to drama, my tutor gave me his copy of 'Bluff your way in Theatre', which I enjoy greatly; it's both educational and a damn good laugh. Was it as much fun to write?

I had a ball writing it.  And for once it gave me a chance to encapsulate nearly everything I had studied at university or learned through pracatical work in the theatre into a few pages.   I wish I'd had it myself when a student - it would have saved me many late nights.  Glad it was useful to you.

more of a beg than a question: pleeeez bring back The Countess & Alpiew I miss reading about their shannanagings! Or better still...lets see them on TV- oo how fabuleux ! Thank you

No one would love to do this more than me, but sadly the publisher decided to stop the series and  instead pursue celebrity books...

Keep spreading the word and you never know, another publisher may decide to resurrect the series and let me continue.  I do have the next four books all planned out and was hanging about, ready to go, when they suddenly cancelled.

As for TV, a production company is working hard on this at the moment.  It's a pity the project got going as the recession bit, but we are hopeful that it won't be too long before, one way or another, the Countess is back .

How come you were born in a gypsy caravan?

Because my mother was there at the time – Boom! Boom! In fact my parents had moved down from Liverpool in search of work, but finding somewhere to live was another matter. I have my mother’s diary for that year in which she is in great distress that unless they can find a house her child will be born in a field. However it did give me a marvellous riposte to all the teachers who said ‘Were you born in a field?’ It also has quite a mystical quality, in that the caravan was in the orchard of ancient Amesbury Abbey where Queen Guinevere died, and only a few hundred metres from Stonehenge and Woodhenge.