Listen to Robert expand on his use of real-life locations in the Strike series.
Transcript
Researching the locations is really important to me. This is such a different series to the Potter series where I invented literally everything. So while, yes, London was in the Potter books and big cities were mentioned in the Potter books, I was always inventing something that was within those places and those cities. Kings Cross obviously I’m inventing a totally fictional platform and so on. And in the Strike books I really do try and use real locations as much as I can. It’s satisfying, it grounds the series, it makes it real for me and hopefully for the reader.
Sometimes you invent things; obviously I’ve invented a lot of buildings that lie off Lionsmouth Lane in Norfolk. But, yeah, I do visit these places.
