If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.

The web can be a fast trip to the library, giving you immediate access to a government report, or it can filter media for you, which is why I look at around 15- 20 of these sites every day.

I'm very fond of an old map of London that used to belong to my father. I'm a big London fan, and the evolution of the city is astonishing, when you look back to Pepys and how small it was - everyone knew each other.

I never read articles about my books.

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity - that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.