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An interview with Michael J Hunt By Alexander James Michael J Hunt is a very full-time writer … though it took him a lifetime to get there. These days he has acclaimed published novels to his credit, more books in the pipeline, runs a busy writers’ group, edits work for other authors and publishers, and even organises a hugely successful annual literary festival. But, unknown to him at the time, his earlier life was a whirl of research and preparation for the many literary hats he now wears; a hectic history of global travel, adventure, study, diverse work -- and a double brush with death. Now settled in the down-to-earth northern English town of Wigan , he can conjure up memories of scorching desert heat in the depths of a Lancashire winter, of snow-capped mountain peaks as he runs a muddy canal towpath, or of a ten thousand-mile trek around the Australian bush when he’s stuck in a motorway traffic jam. And at the keyboard in a quiet terraced street, he can re-live days in African ho