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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"
- "How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
- "I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
- The Truth About Lies: Why We Love A Liar
- “It wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out”
- "I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"
- “Both me and him were in tears”
- New Heroes: A Search For Role Models In Difficult Times
- "The library was my salvation"
- "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
- “Black fatherhood is definitely something we don’t see enough”
- "This book presented another kind of representation"
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