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| | Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Interview: Mark Gatiss from The League of Gentlemen on his new novel |
 | | Mark Gatiss has taken time out from playing twisted miscreants in The League of Gentlemen to write his own novel - and as he tells Angelique Chrisafis, the book, like the TV show, was inspired by his dreary childhood in a grim post-industrial Durham town |
 | | The local extras for one scene were so well chosen, says Mark Gatiss, co-writer and co-star of the TV series and film, that they reminded him of his childhood growing up opposite a Victorian psychiatric hospital in County Durham. |
 | | Gatiss, 38, is sitting by the radiator in a trailer, smoothing the bloody apron worn by Hilary Briss, the village butcher he plays in the hit series. |
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