I wanted to write at school - to write funny stories which the teacher might ask me to read out to the class. It's all basically about showing off.

Mark Billingham
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  2. My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some...

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