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Hello today, best-selling writer Patrick Ness extolled his love of Tennessee Williams' steamy Mississippi classic cat on a hot tin roof

and the transforming effects of Hannibal Lecter. What happened was I went to Bradford Library every Saturday,

and I saw this book called Silence of the Lambs.

I couldn't believe that a book could scare me, thrill me,

just could not stop turning the page.

And by the end of it, Thomas Harris had completely changed my outlook.

I was going to write books.

More from crime writer A.A. Dan, later as we visit the Bradford Literary Festival.

But we start in the highest reaches of power and privilege in a sharply observed novel from Betty Trask winner Elizabeth Day. A journalist, before she turned her attention to fiction,

Day's talent for capturing the intimate detail of disparate lives shines forth in her fourth novel, The Party.

Narrator Martin Gilmore is a celebrated critic from humble beginnings,

his fascination with the charismatic aristocrat Ben Fitzmoris began at public school.

As the story unfolds, a lifetime of stifled longing, unhealthy obsession,

and buried secrets is revealed.

Following in a long tradition from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Patricia Highsmith and Alan Hollinghurst,

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