Having been an architect for most of my professional life, I now consider writing to be as important. In Powerlines, my first novel, and Young Lions, its sequel, I have enjoyed satirising the profession of architecture from the point of the view of the ever beleaguered assistant, who suffers the whims and mood swings of his famous and powerful employers. As one reader pointed out though, I could have been describing any professional environment. The Marble Boy, my third, is a quite different novel based on a journey through the Mediterranean. Written from the point of view of one man escaping