End of the World Blues - Jon Courtenay Grimwood interviewed

Having written the successful Ashraf Bey novels, you’ve moved into standalone books, very much Japanese and Chinese mythology. What made you move from North Africa to another extreme?
 
What actually happened was that after finishing Felaheen, which is the last of the Ashraf Bey mysteries, I wrote Stamping Butterflies, which has an Arab and North [...]