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    Paint It Black: A Review Of Helen Taylor’s The Backstreets Of Purgatory…
    • Aug 20, 2018
    • 3 min

    Paint It Black: A Review Of Helen Taylor’s The Backstreets Of Purgatory…

    I recently attended the Glasgow launch of Helen Taylor’s debut novel The Backstreets Of Purgatory. It was a fascinating and refreshingly different approach to a book event. Instead of the usual chat with chair/readings/Q&A format Taylor replaced the former with a talk on the life and work of the infamous Italian painter Caravaggio (along with an old-school approach to slideshows – see right) to a packed Byres Road Waterstones. This decision was not as left-field as it may sou

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