I read rapidly for the last hour until the end of the day, but then I was sneaked out, running through various back corridors in the labyrinth of public and private royal buildings, and through a tiny door and out into a rainstorm. Oh, and Thailand, where I was visiting the library in Bangkok’s wonderful Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles in the King’s Palace when suddenly everything went quiet and I realised I was the only reader there. I haven’t yet worked out how many countries I visited, but it includes Papua New Guinea, France, India, China, Scotland, Guatemala, the USA, Norway, Italy and Spain. By the end I was slightly exhausted but really happy. It took more than five years to write and finish. My fifth book, Fabric, was published by Profile Books in hardback in November 2021, and in paperback a year later.
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