Each week Reaction Weekend brings you Favourite Things – interviews with interesting people about the skills, hobbies, pleasures and pastimes that make them who they are.

Imran Mahmood is a practicing barrister with almost 30 years’ experience fighting cases in court. Originally from Liverpool he now lives in London with his wife and daughters. His debut novel You Don’t Know Me was chosen by Simon Mayo as a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice for 2017 and longlisted for Theakston crime novel of the year and for the CWA Gold Dagger, and is currently being adapted for screen in four parts. His second novel, I Know What I Saw, will be published by Raven Books later this summer.

These are a few of his favourite things…