I was impressed by the wealth of statistics available in the UK as to the sale of books. That can be accessed online and in South Africa and you can read what book sold how many copies and at what price. That very quickly establishes that the best selling books in England, in terms of money spent, which is probably what an author wants more than anything else, are those of Jamie Oliver.

He had two huge selling books in the last year, and his books considerably outsell all the other celebrity chefs. Some books sell very well, but at low prices and thus don’t gross as much and it seems that the Swedish crime novels still continue to do well and no doubt will even do better now that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has opened in cinemas. I saw the Swedish version of that film, with English subtitles, and it was superb and the American production is meant to be very good as well, although it copies, to a large extent, the Swedish version.