How much does the current global political climate inform your writing?

How much does the current global political climate inform your writing?

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Always. Always the books are trying to be contemporary. That means what you have got to do is what's called "prediction fiction", which is trying to figure out what's going to happen by the time the book is published, but always trying to do that, trying to explain it, for me as well, in a simple way. This is because, sometimes these things get so convoluted you don't know what's going on. And certainly in Kosovo, right now, I spend nearly a quarter of the books with the British soldiers in Basra, because I go there a lot. I've been there quite a few times this year and you spend time with these guys and you could just write a book just on that, really. So try and keep it contemporary. Try and keep it as realistic as possible and by using the characters. You don't have to make it up. All those characters and all that goes on, it's all there. It's all there.