Val McDermid, the celebrated and best-selling Scottish crime writer discusses her life, work and the first novel in a new series.
Dubbed the Queen of Crime, McDermid has sold over 17 million books to date across the globe and is translated into more than 40 languages. Born in Kirkcaldy, a coastal town in the heart of the Scottish mining community, her love of reading as a child set her on the path to becoming a writer.
McDermid considers the importance of libraries where the discover of books such as The Chalet School series influenced her life and how her own experiences as a journalist helped her write 1979, the first book in a new series of novels set at critical moments across the past four decades.
In conversation with writer Sian Norris.
Part of Working-Class Writers Festival, run in association with Bristol Ideas: www.bristolide...
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