Anthill revolution (Image: Steven Sewnne/AP/PA)
Why did you feel your novel, Anthill, had to be written?
This is the first time anyone has written about the lives of ants from their point of view. And I think this is the first novel set in the American South that pays close attention to the environment. I have made the environment, the treasured habitat that Raphael Semmes Cody fights to save, a character in the book.
You have said you wanted the book to lay out nature as it is. Why?
Over 90 per cent of novelists present nature simply in terms…
