Val McDermid: All Back To Mine

This episode was recorded live at the brilliant Portobello Bookshop, in (near!) Edinburgh - thank you so much to Euan and the gang for making us so welcome - as ever - and to everyone at Birlinn. And thanks to the legend Val McDermid - folk singer; football fan; Fun Loving Crime Writer; creator of heroes like Lindsay Gordon, Wire in the Blood’s Carol Jordan and Allie Burns - and a newly-appointed doctor of letters. But we’ll get to that…

To celebrate the paperback edition of her excellent Darklands Tale. Queen Macbeth - and the fact that another of her many terrific protagonists - Karen Pirie -  is back on our tellies, I sat down with Val for a chat about life, and love, and reading, and writing - and she also discussed her choice of a favourite Scottish album, film and book. In fact, she chose more than one almost every time...