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The second, Bloodfever, will follow at the start of next year.
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FESTIVAL Becks
‘Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.’ — Groucho Marx
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His last novel was described by one reviewer as ‘the kind of thing Agatha Christie might have written if she’d been off her tits on manky crack‘. Current book All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye sets a granny in a deadly spy game. See caption, page 74. 75 Aug. 6.30pm. £8 (£6).
>1: Dario Fe The Nobel prize winner wrote the 20th century’s definitive political farce in The Accidental Death of an Anarchist and coined the catchphrase of the poll tax protests in Can 't Pay? Won’t Pay! See page 17. 75 Aug. 77.30am, £7 (£5); 76 Aug, 8pm, £8 (£6).
>l< Boris Akunln The ten million-selling Russian author has revitalised the secret agent genre and brought the late 19th century to dashing life. Here he talks to Scotland’s own crime giant, Ian Rankin. See feature, page 12.
73 Aug, 6.30pm, £8 (£6).
=l< Charlie Higson The former Fast Show man is the official Young Bond author. In Silven‘in, the first in the series, he sends the teenage spy from Eton to a dangerous loch. His visit offers a chance to find out what he thinks of Fleming's antihero. See left.
73 Aug, 3pm, £3.50; 74 Aug. 7.30pm, £3. 50.
=l< Julian Barnes New novel Arthur and George has the Francophile focusing his sharp skills on a Scottish scenario: the true case of when Arthur Conan Doyle helped defend a young Indian accused of horrific crimes. See page 16. 73 Aug, 77.30am. £7 (£5).
>i< Louise Dean Dean interviewed priests, wives. officers and doctors while researching her novel, This Human Season, about the Maze hunger strikers and those around them. See page 76. Louise Dean. Tim Lott & David Peace, 76 Aug, 2.30pm, £7 (£5).
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