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Written by John Millar

This week I…

Read Stonemouth (Iain Banks) It’s hard to believe that it’s already six years now since Iain Banks died, so vivid does his voice remain. Stonemouth was his second last book, published in 2012 and adapted for television in 2015. Like The Crow Road and The Steep Approach to Garbadale this is the story of a […]

Written by John Millar

This week I…

Read People Who Eat Darkness (Richard Lloyd Parry) The murder in 2000 of Lucie Blackman, a young English woman working in Tokyo, caused a media storm at the time. Richard Lloyd Parry’s book was published in 2011; over the intervening period Mr Lloyd Parry spent time with everyone involved in the murder: the Blackman family, […]