began in 2001 under the name of O Books; now John Hunt Publishing; publishes 300 titles a year; in 2010 reorganised into number of autonomous imprints operating worldwide in different genres
'There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes. My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so, I am a storyteller.'