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Posted by Ben Willis on August 10, 2011 at 1:45 pm
For those of you yet to grab a copy, Stylist Magazine’s Summer Fiction Special includes Belinda Bauer’s never-before-seen short story - Everything Must Go.
Stylist: ‘Bauer is one of the leading names in crime fiction. This year, Darkside, a literary thriller about the hunt for a killer was a big hit. She wrote Everything Must Go after a trip to Ikea. “I don’t have children but it looks relentless,” she explains. “This story was inspired by a visit to Ikea with my sister and her daughter, and my neighbours, who have twins.”’
And the great news is that you can read it HERE!
Make sure you pick up a copy today and read this exclusive short story for yourselves!
Last Updated January 13, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Belinda Bauer grew up in England and South Africa. She has worked as a journalist and screenwriter and her script The Locker Room earned her the Carl Foreman/Bafta Award for Young British Screenwriters.
Belinda lives in Wales.
Last Updated January 13, 2011 at 10:52 am
Belinda, how would you sum up Darkside in one line?
A village policeman is torn between caring for his vulnerable wife and catching a serial killer – who seems to know every move he makes.
You have had an extraordinary year, winning the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of 2010 with your first novel, Blacklands. How would you sum up your experience of being a published author so far?
Amazing! This has been the stuff of fantasy, with Blacklands being chosen for the TV Book Club even before it was published. So right from the start, I knew it was going to be okay. It was an enormous relief more than anything else. But by the time the Gold Dagger came round it was very exciting too!
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Last Updated January 10, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Belinda, how would you sum up Blacklands in one line, to a curious amazon customer?
Blacklands is about the cat-and-mouse game a 12-year-old boy plays with a serial killer.
What inspired you to tell this particular tale?
I saw the mother of Moors victim Keith Bennett on TV, and started to wonder about the longstanding effects of such a terrible crime – how it must break a family apart. I thought – if I were that woman’s grandchild, how could I repair those rifts?
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