DI Adam Fawley Book 8

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There are two achievements I’m most proud of in my life, and the first was to get to Oxford, having come from a state school and a family where no-one had even done A levels before. That’s why I have such a profound love for local libraries – we didn’t have a lot of books at home so my weekly visit to the library as a child was my lifeline, and a passport to another world. And without that access to books, and the love of reading they gave me, I would never have ended up at Oxford, either.

The second happened when I was doing that Guinness PR job. I created a worldwide humanitarian and environmental initiative called the ‘Water of Life’, named after the Gaelic phrase for whisky, uisge beatha (Guinness was then the largest producer of Scotch whisky in the world). Long after I left, the initiative is still going strong and has provided clean water for more than 5 million people in Africa in the last five years alone. I’m both proud and humbled by that.

I’m also really proud of my books. We all know how hard it is to get published, and you need a lot of perseverance and resilience—as well as patience! But it’s still the best job in the world—to have a stranger, maybe from the other side of the world, contact you on social media to say how much they love your book, there’s no feeling like it.