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Credit crunch 'can't work in fiction'

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When author John Lanchester began to research for his novel about the workings of the financial industry, his work turned into a book of non-fiction, Whoops - Everyone Owes Everyone and No-one Can Pay.

Mr Lanchester discusses why he decided to change his book's message.

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