QR Markham apologises for 'awful pantomime' of plagiarism
Assassin of Secrets author admits compulsion 'to conceal my own voice with the armour of someone else's words'
QR Markham, the debut novelist who stitched his spy novel Assassin of Secrets together from a multitude of sources, has spoken out for the first time since the plagiarism scandal broke last week, blaming his actions on an almost obsessive need "to conceal my own voice with the armour of someone else's words".
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 15 November, 2011
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