All Back To Mine with Chris Brookmyre

A Kick Up The Arts with Nicola Meighan

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It's the first of our monthly 'A Kick Up The Arts: All Back To Mine' specials, with fab guests giving us a virtual night in, round at theirs: they'll choose a Scottish album to play us, a Scottish film to show us, and a Scottish book for some bed-time reading, and they'll chat about all of that with Nicola Meighan. They might even chuck in a snack or two.
The first of these is here, right now, and it's thanks to the excellent Chris Brookmyre, who's just picked up the McIlvanney Prize for Crime Fiction Book of the Year - for the second time - for his current novel, The Cracked Mirror, which is equal parts cosy village murder mystery, fired-up 80s LA cop thriller, and affectionate upending of our expectations at every turn...
We recorded this at Stirling's awesome vinyl haven Europa Music, during crime writing festival Bloody Scotland. What movie inadvertently influenced Chris' latest novel? What book got him through a nightmare train journey? And what's his guacamole recipe? Listen on...