Interview with author Duncan Saunders
Today our guest is Duncan Saunders . He was born in Stockport and grew in leafy, rural Oxfordshire, in a Cotswold stone cottage on a quiet, village street; a beautiful backwater which became for him all of the places where his imagination could go. The village streets and fields were hidden kingdoms, troll caves, spacecraft and his love of reading came first from the Mr. Men books and then, soon after, from discovering Roald Dahl. His style of writing is to look out of the window, daydream and think “what if…?” He loves looking for the entrance to the goblin kingdom, the places where dragons might live or where the vampires might be lurking. These days, after doing a string of jobs such as church youth work and pro wrestling, Duncan teaches in a primary school. We have conducted an interview with him. Where inspires you the most? How do you make use of these inspirations? That's really tough to answer, as my inspirations are so varied, and I try to take little bits fro...