The Seventh Son

You're presumably aware of who Sebastian Foulkes is, yes? Does anyone not know who he is? Okay.

The last time we sat on this stage was to discuss your last but one book, which was Seventh Son.

And I think in that conversation, you said you weren't gonna write any more novels.

I think you may have misremembered that, Adam.

about? That's a very good question.

I think it's just a little story, really.

I published a book called The Seventh Son, which we talked about, and it was a complicated book, complicated because it was quite scientific, and I'm not much good at science, and also complicated because it was little bit sensitive and therefore we spent a lot of time talking about it at the publishers and editing and so on it took about six months really until we got a version that we were absolutely happy with and then there was the publicity to do for it so essentially for the whole of that year 2023 i didn't write anything and if you are a writer what you want to do is write so it's like being a pianist and i hadn't played the piano at all for a year and uh You don't have to be in the Wigmore Hall, but you need to be sitting at the keyboard and doing a few five-finger exercises at least.

So I sat down at the beginning of 2024 and I thought, right, okay, you bastards, I'm going to write something now.