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		<title>DIP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I visited the set where my channel 4 film, DIP, was being shot.]]></description>
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		<title>The best Noir crime books-12</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1952 

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.
Ian Fleming is a good writer, and the James Bond books are good books. That needs to be said, because everyone seems to assume that they are pulpy shlock. 
Not at all. They&#8217;re gritty, low [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best Noir crime books-11</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strangers on a train, Patricia Highsmith, 1950

The train tore along with an angry, irregular rythmn
Guy is good egg; a talented young architect on the up &#8211; the only flaw in his life is his vicious estranged wife. On a train journey he meets decadent mother&#8217;s boy Bruno, who impulsively plans the perfect double murder &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best Noir crime books-10</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After just failing to assassinate a European dictator (it's Hitler, basically, but that's never stated) our narrator is interrogated then left for dead. ]]></description>
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		<title>The best Noir crime books-09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 06:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty Two Pick Up, Elmore Leonard, 1974

‘He could not get used to going to the girl’s apartment.’ 
Three Detroit villains try to blackmail Harry Stanton over his affair. But they’ve picked the wrong guy: tough factory owner Harry plays them off against each other &#8211; with the help of his angry wife.
Leonard has written dozens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best Noir crime books-08</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dickey, a poet, brings an exquisite sensibility to his story of four guys on a wilderness canoeing trip who have to fight for their lives after tangling with some horny hillbillies.]]></description>
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		<title>The best Noir crime books-07</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vanishing, Tim Krabbe (1984)

Steady as spaceships, the cabins full of tourists moved south over the long, broad road.
The Vanishing is a short sharp shock of a novel with a nightmarish ending. Rex Hofman is on holiday with his fiance Saskia, when she simply disappears. He can&#8217;t understand it, and years later he&#8217;s still restlessly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best Noir crime books-06</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 12:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miami Blues by Charles Willeford (1984)

Frederick J. Frenger, Jr, a blithe psychopath from California, asked the flight attendant in first class for another glass of champagne and some writing materials.
Willeford wrote pulp noir books throughout an eventful life (including time as a hobo and a tank commander) but he didn&#8217;t make his rep till he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA-LA land</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simon Lewis was taken to the UCLA campus for the festival of books.]]></description>
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		<title>OMG LA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simon Lewis went to LA-He was shortlisted for The 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. ]]></description>
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