Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

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• Frank Bruno:

  People need to have compassion for others.

• Kate Thompson:

  I've always felt a bit hard done by in England - you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Irelan

• Kate Thompson:

  My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.

• Kate Thompson:

  I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imaginatio

• Kate Thompson:

  I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.

• Kate Thompson:

  There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the be

• Kate Thompson:

  I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennis

• Kate Thompson:

  What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolt

• Kate Thompson:

  What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are

• Kate Thompson:

  Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. T