Here's some random trivia about the Out of Time characters:

Lysander’s primary influence for leadership is Jean-Luc Picard. It’s also the reason for his addiction to Earl Grey, when he’s stressed.Jacob’s favourite musician in his teens was Emile Sande. It was one of her future concerts that he attended with his son in Time Lost.Rhys used to do nude modelling at an art college. He still as a couple of sketches one of the students did of him. It’s entirely possible that Qasim was given one of those sketches as a present.
Kit is an only child of a doting single mum. His dad was never even in the picture.Janos still attends church at least once or twice a month. Dieter will sometimes go with him for the major occasions, even though he’s a self-confessed atheist, because he knows it’s important to Janos.
Danny is one of two kids and utterly spoils his sister’s children. He insists he’s the cool uncle. They insist he’s the rich geek uncle. And then he chases them and throws them over his shoulders and spins around until they’re all screaming and laughing.Dieter and Janos went back to Hungary several times between book 1 and book 4, but Janos was incredibly uncomfortable because his Hungarian was so outdated compared to the modern version and he felt more out of place there than he ever had in England.