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That's amazon.co. UK forward slash storyteller and good luck. Well, it's another one of our fabulous Q&A episodes from your friends at Books of the Year

this one this time with Mark Bellingham who by this time has already done Glastonbury

yeah how was Glastonbury for you? Oh, it was fantastic.

Yeah, we were carried shoulder high around the acoustic down.

Yeah, Duleepo, uh-uh, no, not the big hit.

It was Mark and his band, fun-loving crime writers so Mark's book is the

wrong hands and if you want to hear Mark talk all about that that's in our other

podcast so question number one Mark same as it ever was what is the last book that you really really

Enjoyed reading well obviously you're lucky enough to receive books early to get books that aren't quite out yet and I'm not

sure this book is quite out yet if it isn't it's next month but it's a new book by Chris

Brookmeyer called The Crack, which is just astonishing.

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