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Bonding with readers

4:30pm Monday 3rd June 2013

Ian Fleming’s first Bond novel, Casino Royale, comes under the spotlight in the Big Read, part of Harrogate’s Crime Writing Festival, as Steve Pratt reports.

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Rebirth of the blues

5:14pm Friday 31st May 2013

The son of radical psychiatrist RD Laing tells Steve Pratt about his late father’s weird ways and why they prompted him to write a novel

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The Antenatal Group by Amy Bratley

2:55pm Monday 13th May 2013

ACCORDING to recent research, women make an average of nine new friends in the year after giving birth. In Amy Bratley's Antenatal Group, it's more like five, but these very different women become each other's best friends before birth - and are the first port of call for help afterwards.

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The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

2:52pm Monday 13th May 2013

ON a chilly winter evening, a glamorous supermodel's life is tragically cut short after she falls from the balcony of her Mayfair apartment.

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Original Skin by David Mark

12:00pm Monday 13th May 2013

A SOFT-hearted detective who even obligingly helps his wife by taking his baby daughter with him while he sleuths wouldn't seem an obvious or ideal candidate to tackle gritty inner-city crime and a sleezy web of sex, drugs and vicious murders.

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My Criminal World by Henry Sutton

2:51pm Monday 13th May 2013

AMIABLE crime novelist David Slavitt seems to be losing the plot. The pressure is mounting, as he battles writer's block, plummeting book sales and a publisher who refuses to take his calls.

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Home Front Girls by Rosie Goodwin

11:58am Monday 13th May 2013

AS the end of 1939 approaches, the Second World War has just broken out, and Annabelle, Lucy and Dotty are three 20-year-old women whose personalities and lives couldn't be more different.

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The Book Of Fate by Parinoush Saniee

11:56am Monday 13th May 2013

IRANIAN author Parinoush Saniee has created an inspiring and resilient heroine in this critically acclaimed title.

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‘The only way was excess’

4:40pm Friday 10th May 2013

Steve Pratt catches up with TOWIE’s Kirk Norcross as he prepares for a book-signing in Darlington which offers more than meets the eye.

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Street paved with laughs

12:17pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

Danny Wallace talks to Viv Hardwick about his route to fame and a forthcoming book signing in York

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