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The Monday Book DARK BLOOD By Stuart MacBride HARPERCOLLINS, Pounds 14.99 Order for Pounds 13.49 from the Independent Bookshop: 08430 600 030
Stuart MacBride is corrupting the children of Britain. Not content with writing his lacerating crime fiction for adults, he is polluting the youth of the nation with his young-adult outing Sawbones, which had the Sunday papers fulminating against "a novel full of expletives, sex and violence". One paper even calculated how many times the F-word and its variants had been used: 89 times, to be exact.
Needless to say, this tsunami of moral outrage did absolutely no harm to sales of the book....