Beginner’s pluck: JAMES MYLET

James Mylet began to write when he was 21. Before that he had no interest in reading, or in writing.

“I wasn’t into books. I played football as a teen, but then I read Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby, then Train Spotting, and that changed everything.”

James wrote two books that were rejected, before he wrote Lex. “I learned a lot from writing the books that didn’t work out. They were completely different.”