I’ve just been redrafting my fourth book, Sleeping Dogs (cue contractually obliged plug… out later this year… all good bookshops, etc.) and I realised something that I have been vaguely aware of for a while now: my characters spend a lot of time in the pub. Not just pubs; there are numerous cafes, restaurants, a bubble tea takeaway, and, in the new one, a none-too-salubrious club from the 90s called Honkers.
