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Chris Power is joined by writers Margie Orford, Lavie Tidhar, and Andrew Harding to discuss the ethical questions authors confront as they research and write about crime and the faint lines between fact and fiction. Margie Orford is a crime writer and journalist, her latest novel The Eye of the Beholder follows two women as they try to bury their abusive pasts. Lavie Tidhar's novel Maror spans 50 years of turbulent Israeli history by pulling together true stories of crime and corruption to reveal truths hidden from view for over forty years. And the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s foreign correspondent, Andrew Harding, is the author of the true-crime thriller These Are Not Gentle People, a work of narrative non-fiction about the horrific and traumatic events that took place in a small South African town in 2016.

Also on the programme, bestselling crime writer Denise Mina shares her love of The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov as The Book I'd Never Lend.

Book List – Sunday 31 July and Thursday 4 August

The Eye of the Beholder by Margie Orford
Like Clockwork by Margie Orford
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Maror by Lavie Tidhar
These Are Not Gentle People by Andrew Harding
The Mayor of Mogadishu by Andrew Harding
The Promise by Damon Galgut
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
The Steam Pig by James McClure
The Caterpillar Cop by James McClure
The Story of a Crime by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov: Translated by Misha Glenny
Confidence by Denise Mina