The Guardian indulges our voyeurism with a series on writers’ rooms. Here is David Starkey’s writing space.

“I organise my work in the form of a daily diary. Each chapter is strictly chronological but is also monothematic – say, a war, a set of peace negotiations, a joust. I normally begin my first paragraph just before I break for lunch and then work solidly through the afternoon. I start cooking supper at about half past five or six and then go back to the Mac for a final blitz before drinks. Every three or four days, I’ll finish a chapter, which James reads over drinks, while I try not to watch his expression. It’s better than any publisher’s editor and instantaneous.”

Photo by Eamonn McCabe 

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