Denise Mina ‘Edgar Allan Poe is so good I feel sick with jealousy’
over 4 years in The guardian
The Scottish crime writer on being inspired by Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita and why Harper Lee was right not to keep publishing
The book I am currently readingA Crack in the Wall by Claudia Piñeiro, a fantastic Argentinian crime writer and my new literary crush. She is a wonderful writer and a great storyteller, two things that don’t always go together.
The book that changed my lifeThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. I was raised in a very Catholic environment and the Pontius Pilate section resonated with me deeply because I’d written a musical about him at school and been “spoken to” by the head nun. I read the book when I accidentally went on an Ibiza Uncovered-style holiday in Corfu in 1985. It made me want to be a writer. Continue reading...
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