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Val McDermid on her childhood love of libraries
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:04:00
Publish Date: 2025-09-25 05:00:00
Description:

In 2013 the Scottish writer Val McDermid was cast away by Kirsty Young.

Crime fiction is Val's chosen genre, and the millions of novels she sells examine and dissect the darkest recesses of human behaviour. Val spoke to Kirsty about her childhood love of libraries.

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