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Anthony James Barnett - author — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:41:49 +0000

I really enjoyed the article and comments. It was of particular interest to me, as I've recently posted an interview with Jim Murdoch on my own site. What a character!!! A talented man. Anthony James Barnett - author's last post: An interview with author, Jim Murdoch

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By: Margaret

Margaret — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:04:11 +0000

I've got it on my wish list at Amazon.com. Hopefully it won't take too long to get here! Sounds like it will be a great read! ê¿ê Margaret's last post: Dangerous Ground by Larry Bond

By: J.C.

J.C. — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:24:39 +0000

I would really like to read Jim's book, thanks for the nice review. J.C.'s last post: The Snake Day

By: Tam

Tam — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:15 +0000

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By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:24:55 +0000

Jonathan works as English for me (and I loved the anecdote about his one trip to Scotland) – and it’s not that I don’t like the cultural references (and I certainly got them all), I just feel that there are quite a few really obscure ones. But then, when I read American novels, there are always shedloads in them, so why not in British one….

Wales forgives you, Jim. For now.

By: Jim Murdoch

Jim Murdoch — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:15:15 +0000

‘Billy Liar’ – which is one of the inspirations for the book – is set in a fictitious north of England town – and once I’d decided on the name of the place, Rigby, it was obvious it had to be England. Jonathan is not passionate about anything. He’s English because that’s where he ended up being born. If it’s any help the hero of my third novel is a Scot and the heroes of the fourth are Irish. The girl I’m writing about at the moment isn’t Welsh though – sorry Wales.

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By: Rachel Fox

Rachel Fox — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:51:33 +0000

Yes, why is he English and not Scottish Jim? When I read it I took it that he was kind of neither/nor…a kind of murky British (like on TV). You are Scottish (right?) – so why the Englishness? Interesting and unusual in these times of heightened Scottishness…

By: Jim Murdoch

Jim Murdoch — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:10:49 +0000

Tam, to be totally honest I couldn’t imagine the book without the cultural references. Jonathan is English – I wouldn’t even go so far as to call him British – and all the references reflect who he is, where he is and when he is. I’m sure you could take ‘Billy Liar’ and stick him in small town America and it would work for a new audience (because the themes in the book are universal) but to my mind neither Billy nor Jonathan would seem right anywhere other than the north of England.

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