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Paul Harding on Shakespeare’s villains: ‘I want my characters to wrestle with their best and worst impulses’
We asked the authors on the Booker Prize 2023 shortlist to tell us about their inspirations. Here, Paul Harding, author of This Other Eden, explains how the moral complexity of Shakespeare’s villains helped him create Matthew Diamond