I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.
I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.
I've always been interested in wolves, since I was a child. There was a wolf enclosure in a wildlife park very close to where I was brought up; they were the main attraction.
You think back and you ask yourself why you became so interested in wolves. I think it was because when I was very small, growing up in a little hamlet near Shap, we would go to Lowther Wildlife Park for birthday parties. Now closed, it was only three miles from my parents' house.