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• Fiona Barton:

  Garrison Keillor's 'Lake Wobegon' books create a world I can immerse myself in over and over. I lov

• Fiona Barton:

  I like my villains clever, deep, and driven by pure evil.

• Fiona Barton:

  For me, there has always been the irresistible lure of a secret.

• Fiona Barton:

  It was this fascination with hidden lives, I suspect, that led me to journalism; seeking to uncover

• Fiona Barton:

  We may like to pretend otherwise, but we all have thoughts we don't want anyone else to know, thing

• Fiona Barton:

  For most of us, our protective lies or omissions are so insignificant that being found out would be

• Fiona Bruce:

  The best thing, on 'Question Time,' is when the reality confronts the rhetoric.

• Fiona Bruce:

  I am a simple soul.

• Fiona Bruce:

  I had done debate programmes before and quite often you go into them thinking: 'I might need to bui

• Fiona Bruce:

  I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.