Open Book: Tony Parsons on why he's turned to crime

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Society & Culture, Books

4.2 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Tony Parsons on his first crime novel, The Murder Bag, and why he and Henry Sutton find crime appeals. Alice Greenway goes ornithological and why literature matters in Kurdistan.

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