God knows what’s going to happen to this chair now Janine’s got hold of it. Whatever it might be, you can bet it’ll be mysterious, dark and highly erotic – just like her stories. Welcome, Janine!

JA Interview by Justine Elyot

Blimey. My memory isn’t that great … I still have my original Hilda Boswell’s Treasury of Poetry from when I was very small, but it was the illustrations that I was wildly in love with, more than the text. Comet in Moominland...