Chris Brookmyre

That's the end of their social standing.

You should say that this is another character we're talking about.

Yes, yeah, exactly.

And I wonder if this is a part of the theme that, you know, the double standards for men and for women, that the stakes are very, very high for charity.

I really liked, it was like the right word, the depictions of poverty.

And there are people who live on the hill who are sort of outlaws, who live up on this hill without being married to each other, who drink.

And the squalor that that's displayed as is another possible outcome for charity that we're worried about.

I spent a lot of this book in a state of anxiety.

Louise, your turn.

Memento Mori by Muriel Spark, which is one of my favourite books, I think.

I don't know how many times I've read this book and I still get tangled up in the complexities.

In a sense, it's quite a simple book.

There are a bunch of people who are all over 70.

They're entangled in ways that we don't necessarily hold on to.

And they begin to get these telephone calls that say, remember you are.

Must die.

Memento mori.

In a sense, it's like a detective novel, isn't it?

There's a lot that's set up in the detective style.

There's a policeman involved.