Favourite Movies
The Maltese Falcon, Cabaret, Chicken Run
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Laura Marling, Florence & the Machine, Adele, Bon Iver
Favourite Books
'The Woman in White', 'A Passage to India', 'Hound of the Baskervilles', 'Little Women', 'Fly By Night', 'Life of Pi', 'The Sisters Brothers', 'Monstrous Regiment'
Favourite Writers
Terry Pratchett, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, E.M Forster, Gerald Durrell, Yann Martel, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Neil Gaiman, Patrick DeWitt, Agatha Christie, G.W. Dahlquist, Frances Hardinge, Daniel Handler, Susanna Clarke, Louisa May Alcott
Tools of the Trade
Various jellies and tubes, syrups and glues, webs of nerves and a loaf of brain.
Other Interests
Zoology, Mythology, Folklore, History re-examined, 18th Century Europe, Hagiography, Famous last stands