Hello and welcome to this week's episode of writers routine where this week we're chatting to Barnaby Jameson QC.

Barnaby is one of the UK's leading counter-terrorist lawyers.

And in amongst his time working in some huge, notorious cases,

he's written his debut novel. It's called codename Madeleine. Now, we talk about the right and left

side of the brain and how this helps his writing become distance from his work as a lawyer.

Also, we talk about how he tells stories in court and how he grows at doing that and makes

himself better.

And you can hear simply why he decided in amongst being very busy to write a book in the

first place.

I mean, one of the things about crime, which is, or any case, is that huge amounts of

work, you know, go into a case and then it's finished.

And then that's it. It's over. And there's a sort of degree, if you like, of anti-climax.

And so I think that I had always wanted, as somebody that's very interested in words and in stories and in history,

to write words that

weren't going to disappear on the water. And so I sort of decided that, you know, one of the

ways of doing that was actually to write a book, which, you know, I hope will stand the test

of time.

There is more with Barnaby Jameson in this week's Writers' Routine.

Yes, welcome along to the show.

This is Ritesh Routine.

My name's Dan Simpson.

It's the place where we take a look inside an author's working day to see how they get stuff done, to see how they juggle work and family and everything else that comes upon you with the art of taking a story from your head and getting it on the page. Now something interesting, quite exciting, I think, to start.

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