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Graeme Macrae Burnet

(1966) Novelist

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Graeme Macrae Burnet is a novelist.

Quick Facts About Graeme Macrae Burnet

Born: November 30, 1966
Profession: Novelist

About Graeme Macrae Burnet

[Wikidata] Scottish author... | [Wikipedia] Graeme Macrae Burnet is a Scottish writer. He writes literary crime novels, often with a metafictional framework. His first novel, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, won the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award in 2013. His second novel, His Bloody Project (2015), won the Saltire Society Fiction Boo

Quotes by Graeme Macrae Burnet

“If asked how one’s business is doing, the customary response is: ‘Could be worse,’ or ‘Just about surviving.’ Anything more upbeat is…

Graeme Macrae Burnet

Business

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“It is not enough for you to think that no man could commit such heinous acts and be deemed to be of…

Graeme Macrae Burnet

Psychology

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“What is at issue here are not the bare facts of the case, but the contents of a man’s mind.”

Graeme Macrae Burnet

Happiness

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“If one’s cup of water is foul, one must first ascertain if the well is poisoned. If we find that the well…

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Water

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“The real measure of 'truth' in any novel is not whether the characters, places and events portrayed exist beyond the pages of…

Graeme Macrae Burnet

Books

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“For what sane man would freely make statements which, if accepted at face value, would consign him to the gallows?”

Graeme Macrae Burnet

Face value

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