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"It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
View More From The Truth About Lies: Why We Love A Liar
Ian Rankin says what is most important is what crime fiction tells us about society.
  1. "It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
    02:37
    "It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
    View More From The Truth About Lies: Why We Love A Liar
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    The Truth About Lies: Why We Love A Liar
    View More From The Truth About Lies: Why We Love A Liar
  3. A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
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    A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
  4. "The library was my salvation"
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    "The library was my salvation"
  5. "It was an all-consuming masculinity"
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    "It was an all-consuming masculinity"
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    Digging In: How Our Food Shapes Our Lives
  7. "I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"
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    "I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"
  8. "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
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    "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
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    "I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"
  11. A Big Book Weekend chat with Douglas Stuart
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    A Big Book Weekend chat with Douglas Stuart
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