Brookmyre Verb: To Enjoy Christopher Brookmyre Is Once Again Assured of a Place On the Best-Seller Lists with His Ninth Novel. Hugh Macdonald Examines the Scots Patter Merchant's Trusted Formula
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CHRISTOPHER Brookmyre is a phenomenon. A thriller writer with an arsenal of quick-fire humour and irreverent observation, he outsells the acknowledged master of that genre, Carl Hiassen, by four copies to one in Britain. His latest book will, no doubt, sell the customary 2500 copies a week for the first two months before dropping off to a mere mass exodus from the shelves.
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Brookmyre Verb: To Enjoy Christopher Brookmyre Is Once Again Assured of a Place On the Best-Seller Lists with His Ninth Novel. Hugh Macdonald Examines the Scots Patter Merchant's Trusted Formula
Quite Ugly One Morning was produced at ITV, the Sacred Art of Stealing has been optioned by Hollywood and the 7:84 Company has just finished touring with a stage version of Boiling A Frog.
Brookmyre, crucially, has risen above the most depressing of personal problems, the most debilitating of self-imposed blights to triumph in the outside world: he is the St Mirren supporter who has ma...See the full content of this document
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