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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Nan Spowart

A big cow, self-publishing, and Iain Banks: JD Kirk on 10 things that changed his life

BEST-SELLING crime author JD Kirk, whose real name is Barry Hutchison, speaks to The Sunday National about the ten things which have changed his life...

1 Mrs MacAllister

SHE was the school librarian when I was at primary school in Caol near Fort William. I didn’t read books, I read comics all the time and she lured me in with this stash of comics. I went back to the library every day to read them and she was kind of like a drug dealer as she would slip me a book now and again and tell me to read it. Eventually I got hooked, thanks to her.

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