I once took the sixteenth century writer Michel de Montaigne along for a bike ride along the Atlantic coast of France

The book that came out of our trip is called Me and Michel

I did the peddling

And I spent time as a carer for my mother

I wrote about that experience in a book called Love and Care

And there’s a podcast on spotify and apple

And long ago, I wrote American Rebel, a political thriller set in Cuba

I called myself Joss Gibson to avoid the glare of publicity

I needn’t have worried