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But to see the nuts and bolts of a lawyer’s life in court and outside: that proved fresh.” I didn’t invent the courtroom novel: there was To Kill A Mockingbird, and you can go back to Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice. He opened the floodgates for the so-called “legal thriller”, but admits: “That term inspired nausea in me for years because it seemed a simplistic way to sum up my writing. Juggling a career as a defence lawyer with his writing, Turow has penned just 12 novels in the past three decades, including The Burden Of Proof and Pleading Guilty, but all have earned literary plaudits as well as popular acclaim – selling more than 30 million copies worldwide and being translated into more than 40 languages. “If you’re comparing me to James Patterson, I’m way behind,” he says of the author of more than 400 novels. Turow isn’t like some novelists who churn out dozens of books a year as if on a production line. |