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Jim Murdoch
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May 04, 1959
in Glasgow, The United Kingdom
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Writers drink a lot. A lot of writers drink—it’s a bit of a cliché, the semi-(if not completely)-sozzled novelist—but I suspect that far more writers will be addicted to caffeine than alcohol. I don’t drink. Of course I drink. I just don’t drink-drink. I haven’t had an alcoholic beverage since… hang on I’m thinking… since my wife’s son came to visit. We popped into a bar on Great Western Road...
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Living with the Truth
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2008
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Stranger than Fiction
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2009
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Milligan and Murphy
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2011
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This Is Not About What You Think
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The Whole Truth
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Living with the Truth (Literature & Fiction)
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A novel about a old bookseller who finds himself forced to spend two days with the personification of truth.
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