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...It’s a risky move for a writer who, from 2007’s There Are Little Kingdoms to last year’s Booker-longlisted novel Night Boat to Tangier, has built a fearsome reputation for quick, deadpan, darkly comic prose...
...Moreover, Captain McTurk, the detective who unravels the complexity of the crimes in this story, is very much in the same mould as Sergeant Cuff in Collins’ The Moonstone....
...James Naughtie presents ‘Today’ on BBC Radio 4 and chaired the judges for this year’s Man Booker Prize...
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