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...“He’s a straight shooter with an easy sense of humour,” novelist Elmore Leonard wrote. “Walter’s cool. He remains in place because he knows what he’s always known: you begin with a good story.”...
...From the outside, Elmore House in Brixton, south London, looks like a fairly typical social housing estate....
...The Plea reads like an idiosyncratic cross between Elmore Leonard and John Grisham, but bursts with its own individual flavour....
...Lapidus’s debut, with its crowded, fast-moving narrative, evoked echoes of his inspirations – American masters Raymond Chandler and Elmore Leonard....
...Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. I was 15 and it was the first book I read that I fully believed in. What music helps you write? Only extremely droney, non-vocal music....
...Or true that Elmore Leonard is “the greatest American novelist never to be mentioned in the same breath as Nobel Prize’’?...
...The Commandments of Elmore Leonard, for example, quoted here, conclude: “10. Try to leave out the parts readers tend to skip.”...
...THE COMPLETE WESTERN STORIES by Elmore Leonard Weidenfeld & Nicolson ₤16.99, 544 pages He is most often associated with fast-paced, glitzy crime novels, but Leonard cut his teeth penning stories about...
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