Mark Billingham

Simon Mayo's Books Of The Year

Ora Et Labora

Arts, Books, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Mark Billingham joins Simon and Matt in the studio for a chat about his new character, Detective Miller. They discuss the fine line between comedy and crime, why Mark chose Blackpool as the setting for his new series and why you should always come back to an idea. We also try to find out what advice he gave Richard Osman, before he became an author... Here's more on 'The Wrong Hands': This is one case Miller won't want to open . . . Unconventional Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Still desperate to solve the murder of his wife, a young man has just appeared on his doorstep with a briefcase . . . containing a pair of severed hands. Miller knows this case is proof of a contract killing commissioned by local ne'er do well Wayne Cutler - a man he suspects might also be responsible for his wife's death. Now Miller has leverage, but unfortunately he also has something that both Cutler and a villainous fast-food kingpin are desperate to get hold of. Chuck in a Midsomer Murders-obsessed hitman, a psychotic welder and a woman driven over the edge by a wayward Crème Egg, and Miller is in a mess that even he might not be able to dance his way out of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Do you think we have the weirdest introduction music to any podcast?
0:16.0	Um, no I like it wasn't it done but it was done for us wasn't it?
0:20.0	Yeah, yeah we're very grateful but it's still blooming weird. Anyway, welcome, it's Books of the Year. Another podcast from your ungrateful friends. Oh dear. Books of the Year. We'll talk to Mark Billingham fairly shortly an email from Mike in Halifax
0:35.6	Matt and Simon I recently returned home from seeing Cheryl Crow at the most
0:40.1	excellent Peace Hall in Halifax and needed a little relaxation before bed a
0:45.1	softener for fans of oh yes okay that's the film podcast yeah opting to listen
0:50.3	so a softener if you don't listen to the film show it's basically a TV show that you can watch before bed so
0:56.7	there's no suspense there's no threat yeah there's no cliff hangers at the
1:01.1	end that kind of thing.
1:03.0	Opting to listen to the most recent books of the year
1:05.3	with Abir Mukherjee, I settled in for some relaxing book talk,
1:09.7	but no, I ended up fully engaged and wide awake. I was also startled to hear another
1:15.7	listener had emailed to say they were clutching up.
1:18.9	Catching up. Very good. They were catching up on the 2018 episodes.
1:24.0	Surely I've not been listing that long I thought, but now that's it's true.
1:28.0	Over six years of enjoying books of the years.
1:32.0	Is it that long?
1:33.0	Six years we were going,
1:34.0	yeah. How the time flies and books pile up.
1:36.0	I've made it through Steve Kavanaugh's 13,
1:39.0	Damascus station,
1:40.0	all the sinners bleed,
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