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The story of Alex Salmond is (far) stranger than fiction

2 February 2019

9:00 AM

2 February 2019

9:00 AM

For legal reasons I shouldn’t say much about the Alex Salmond case, but it does bolster the argument that the world right now operates beyond most fiction writers’ (and readers’?) imaginations. Fiction needs to be credible; I should persuade the reader that the events in my stories could happen, if they haven’t already.

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