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Oh yeah, another Sydney Writers’ Festival story, which has since passed into legend: Lena and I meet Hanif Kureishi at the launch one year. We get talking, and mention the book our work appeared in recently. “Great,” he says to Lena. “You should come up to my hotel room and show me.” Get. Out. We gave him the book, but not in his room.

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Dept of Randomness — here’s some of the Google searches that have led to this page in the last two weeks:

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Excellent.