John Kay has just been in Australia promoting his new book, Other People's Money – Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People? Thanks to the Grattan Institute, he and I were recently interviewed in front of a couple of hundred people.

An Army man, a regulator, a banker, a director. Pinstripes and sensible grey hair. Harrison Young is not the most obvious candidate to write novels his publisher describes as “an elegant mixture of humour, sex and wisdom”. So BlueNotes asked Harrison, should more bankers be novelists?