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"It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
Ian Rankin says what is most important is what crime fiction tells us about society.
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    "It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
  2. "I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
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    "I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
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    "This book presented another kind of representation"
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    "It was an all-consuming masculinity"
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    How To Be A Man
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    "The library was my salvation"
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