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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.
- "It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
- "This book presented another kind of representation"
- "I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"
- How To Be A Man
- "It was an all-consuming masculinity"
- “Both me and him were in tears”
- "I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"
- "It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
- "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
- "I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
- New Heroes: A Search For Role Models In Difficult Times
- A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
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- How To Be A Man
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- New Heroes: A Search For Role Models In Difficult Times
- The Secrets Of Good Sex
- The Truth About Lies: Why We Love A Liar
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