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"The library was my salvation"
Author Val McDermid on the huge role reading played in her childhood
- "The library was my salvation"
- "Audiobooks on the walk - tick!"
- "It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
- Digging In: How Our Food Shapes Our Lives
- "It was an all-consuming masculinity"
- "I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"
- "This book presented another kind of representation"
- A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
- “Both me and him were in tears”
- "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
- “It wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out”
- The Truth About Lies: Why We Love A Liar
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- A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
- A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
- A Big Book Weekend chat with Douglas Stuart
- British Country Life: Heaven Or Hell?
- Digging In: How Our Food Shapes Our Lives
- How To Be A Man
- Is It Time To Bin The Books On Parenting?
- New Heroes: A Search For Role Models In Difficult Times
- The Secrets Of Good Sex
- The Truth About Lies: Why We Love A Liar