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Nothing is as it seems in Scottish novelist Graeme Macrae Burnet’s inventive, genre-defying fiction

Bookends with Mattea Roach
Bookends with Mattea Roach
Episode • Feb 12, 2023 • 55m
Graeme Macrae Burnet's novels are something different: not-so-true crime stories that blur the line between documentary and fiction. The Scottish writer's 2015 book, His Bloody Project – set in the Highlands during the 19th century – was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while his most recent title, Case Study, has been called "a page-turning blast, funny, sinister and perfectly plotted." It takes place in 1960s London and follows a young woman drawn into the world of an unorthodox psychotherapist.

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