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Hello on today's program, the human stories behind the headlines.

And award-winning Australian novelist Thomas Caneli shares the nuclear power of the book he would never lend.

I wore it in my school uniform pocket in the 1950s in Australia through the suburban streets,

and I believed it had the power to attract the girls I fancied from the Dominican convent. I really thought

it was radioactive with charm and adventurousness. Only a prose master could describe a book as

radioactive with charm. Find out about the title and if it got him the girl later in the program.

But first we enter darker terrain with the latest in Mark Billingham's super successful crime series

featuring the morally conflicted, romantically challenged authority assuing one-time

murder squad detective Tom Thorn. Billingham came late to fiction following a career as an actor and

stand-up comedian, but since his debut Sleepy Head in 2001, he's fast become one of our most

celebrated exponents of this most popular genre. Brilliantly brought to life by David Morrissey

in two critically acclaimed TV adaptations, this stubborn, world-weary investigator continues to display a penchant for serial killers

and a total disregard for proper procedure.

The dying hours finds him demoted, demoralised and back on the beat,

following a controversial hostage-taking incident.

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