
We started writing our first novel, “Critique of Criminal Reason,” at the turn of the twenty-first century. We hadn’t been published at the time, and so were able to take our time and indulge our fantasies. The book eventually appeared for the first time in 2006 as a Faber & Faber hardback.
On 25 October 2009, we published an article entitled “OUR GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT?” on this blog. We were writing about our fight against a massive modern office block in the medieval part of the town in Umbria in which we live.

Do “evil” people exist?
Are they expressions of the culture from which they come?
Do their crimes help us understand the world in which they lived?
We sent it free to the Sunday Times, and they didn’t like it.
Now, we are offering it free to anyone who cares to read it.

We are planning to go to London for a few days at the start of March. The paperback edition of "A Visible Darkness" is about to be released. The real reason for going, however, is the huge antiques fair at Ardingley on March 1st and 2nd – if you’ve never been to this bonanza, you don’t know what you are missing. London is just 40 minutes away by train, so we will stay in town. That’s where all the bookshops are, the theatres, museums and restaurants.