The Ethics of Writing Crime

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Chris Power is joined by writers Margie Orford, Lavie Tidhar, and Andrew Harding to discuss the ethical questions authors confront as they research and write about crime and the faint lines between fact and fiction. Margie Orford is a crime writer and journalist, her latest novel The Eye of the Beholder follows two women as they try to bury their abusive pasts. Lavie Tidhar's novel Maror spans 50 years of turbulent Israeli history by pulling together true stories of crime and corruption to reveal truths hidden from view for over forty years. And the BBC's foreign correspondent, Andrew Harding, is the author of the true-crime thriller These Are Not Gentle People, a work of narrative non-fiction about the horrific and traumatic events that took place in a small South African town in 2016. Also on the programme, bestselling crime writer Denise Mina shares her love of The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov as The Book I'd Never Lend. Book List – Sunday 31 July and Thursday 4 August The Eye of the Beholder by Margie Orford Like Clockwork by Margie Orford Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Maror by Lavie Tidhar These Are Not Gentle People by Andrew Harding The Mayor of Mogadishu by Andrew Harding The Promise by Damon Galgut Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor The Steam Pig by James McClure The Caterpillar Cop by James McClure The Story of a Crime by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov: Translated by Misha Glenny Confidence by Denise Mina