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Ep 4: Adrian McKinty, Ben Aaronovitch and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

By: Graham Norton, Adrian McKinty, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Ben Aaronovitch
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  • Graham talks to Adrian McKinty about our book of the week, The Cold Cold Ground as well his nearly giving up writing in favour of Uber driving!

    Our clubbers share their thoughts on the book and actor Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and author Ben Aaronovitch discuss their reader/writer bromance. Plus, Sara Collins tells us about her favourite ‘bad girls’ and we investigate the hidden treasures of the Metaphysical and Visionary best-sellers list.

    Thanks to Orion Publishing Group, for providing us with the audiobook clips in this episode.

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Panel misses the point…

This panel of reviewers had a number of complaints about the writing in A COLD COLD GROUND. They said the situations were cliché and the prose was “purple.” What they failed to get is that the narrator/protagonist has a PhD in philosophy. He’s highly intelligent and self-aware, so he uses big words on occasion and frequently comments on how clichéd his own life has become. In other words, the aspects of the novel that these author/reviewer types didn’t like are kind of the point of the book, which they seem to have missed. But don’t they sound clever and PC?

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