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Kia Abdullah and Abir Mukherjee discuss whether novelists can leave their own bias behind when tackling class, race and politics. How can they write sympathetic characters whose views or actions they don't necessarily agree with? And how do they deal with readers who take offence?

Part of a longer session in which Kia Abdullah, whose legal thriller Take It Back was published in March, discusses these thorny issues with Abir Mukherjee, bestselling author of the Sam Wyndham series of crime novels set in Raj-era India.

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